Neovim is a modern version of vim. In my first job as a Firmware Engineer, I was exposed to linux tools and that’s technically where my professional linux journey began. When I moved to the second company I worked for, Bluewind, I given all the time to hone my skills and so I dived deeper into linux. At that time, WSL2 was increasing in popularity, naturally, I jumped right into it.
Plugins
Here are the plugins that I use as of March 2025:
NOTE
All plugins can be found on my nvim kickstart config here
Colorschemes
I use gruvbox mainly when developing and I just added additional ones if I get tired of seeing all gruvbox
- eddyekofo94/gruvbox-flat.nvim
- andreasvc/vim-256noir
- slugbyte/lackluster.nvim
Folke Plugins
Ever since folke set the default base of Lazy into snack.nvim, I have since migrated some of the plugins to be compatible with it.
Removed nvim-cmp to make way for blink.cmp, removed telescope to make way for fzf-lua, and added noice.nvim to make the cmdline prettier.
- folke/snacks.nvim
- saghen/blink.cmp
- folke/todo-comments.nvim
- folke/noice.nvim
- folke/which-key.nvim
Eyecandy
These are just fancy plugins to make neovim not look boring.
- sphamba/smear-cursor.nvim
- MeanderingProgrammer/render-markdown.nvim
- lewis6991/gitsigns.nvim
Filesystems
This was a life changer, after moving to nvim, I was still stuck using the netrw file explorer and it sucked for me.
Oil.nvim was great because I can edit the filesystem like in a vim-like buffer. Projevt.nvi m
- stevearc/oil.nvim
- ahmedkhalf/project.nvim
Formatting
These are used for linting and formatting
- stevearc/conform.nvim
- neovim/nvim-lspconfig
- mfussenegger/nvim-lint
Utilties
Here are some utility plugins that also makes tasks easier
vim-visual-multi makes it easy to replace text in a buffer (search and replace) grug-far makes it easy to replace text in a directory (search and replace)
- tpope/vim-sleuth
- mg979/vim-visual-multi
- numToStr/Comment.nvim
- nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter
- nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter-context
- MagicDuck/grug-far.nvim
- NStefan002/visual-surround.nvim
Obsidian
I use this to write my notes (this).
- obsidian-nvim/obsidian.nvim
Work Stuff
I installed these plugins just to conform to my work development environment Not a fan since I could have just used Mason for everything
- prettier/vim-prettier
- dmmulroy/tsc.nvim