Neovim Development Environment

A single-file Neovim configuration forked from Kickstart.nvim, tuned for infrastructure and backend development.

Philosophy

• Built for DevOps: Deep integrations for Go, Terraform/HCL, Bicep, PowerShell, Ansible, Jinja, and Bash.
• vim.pack native: Uses Neovim 0.12+'s built-in vim.pack plugin manager — no external plugin manager needed.
• Terminal-native: Keyboard-driven. No GUI fluff.
• Modular: Each plugin lives in its own file under lua/kickstart/plugins/. Enable or disable by commenting a single require in Section 10 of init.lua.

Prerequisites

Arch Linux:

sudo pacman -S --needed neovim gcc make git ripgrep fd tree-sitter-cli unzip xclip

Optional but recommended:

sudo pacman -S --needed shellcheck golangci-lint  # for linting

Installation

# Backup existing config
mv ~/.config/nvim ~/.config/nvim.bak
rm -rf ~/.local/share/nvim

# Clone and bootstrap
git clone https://github.com/<your-username>/nvim.git ~/.config/nvim
nvim  # Plugins auto-install on first run

Core Stack

Category	Tooling
LSP	gopls, terraformls, ansiblels, jinja_lsp, powershell_es, pyright, bicep-lsp, lua_ls
Autocomplete	blink.cmp + LuaSnip
Fuzzy Finder	Telescope.nvim (ripgrep + fd + fzf-native)
Parsing	Treesitter (auto-installs parsers on demand)
Formatting	conform.nvim — autoformat on save for go, hcl, ps1, lua; external hclfmt for HCL
Linting	nvim-lint — shellcheck (bash/sh/zsh), golangci-lint (Go), markdownlint (markdown)
Git	gitsigns.nvim — hunk staging, blame, diff, text objects
File Tree	neo-tree.nvim — toggle with <leader>ff
Debug	nvim-dap + dap-ui + dap-go (commented out by default)

Custom Keymaps

Key	Action
<C-s>	Save file (insert + normal mode)
<PageUp> / <PageDown>	Scroll up/down
<C-h/j/k/l>	Navigate splits
<leader>ff	Toggle neo-tree file explorer
<leader>fb	Toggle neo-tree buffer explorer
<leader>sf	Telescope find files
<leader>sg	Telescope live grep
<leader>f	Format buffer
<leader>hs	Stage git hunk
<leader>hr	Reset git hunk
<leader>tb	Toggle git blame

Management

• Check plugin status: :lua vim.pack.update(nil, { offline = true })
• Update plugins: :lua vim.pack.update() (:write to apply, :quit to cancel)
• Health check: :checkhealth kickstart
• Add a plugin: Create lua/kickstart/plugins/<name>.lua, add require 'kickstart.plugins.<name>' in init.lua Section 10
• Disable a plugin: Comment its require in init.lua Section 10