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      ,l;             c,
   .:ooool'           loo:.
 .,oooooooo:.         looooc,       /VVVVVVVV\++++  /VVVVVVVV\
ll:,loooooool,        looooool      \VVVVVVVV/++++++\VVVVVVVV/
llll,;ooooooooc.      looooooo       |VVVVVV|++++++++/VVVVV/'
lllllc,coooooooo;     looooooo       |VVVVVV|++++++/VVVVV/'
lllllll;,loooooool'   looooooo      +|VVVVVV|++++/VVVVV/'+
lllllllc .:oooooooo:. looooooo    +++|VVVVVV|++/VVVVV/'+++++
lllllllc   'loooooool,:ooooooo  +++++|VVVVVV|/VVV___++++++++++
lllllllc     ;ooooooooc,cooooo    +++|VVVVVVVVVV/##/ +_+_+_+
lllllllc      .coooooooo;;looo      +|VVVVVVVVV___ +/#_#,#_#,\
lllllllc        ,loooooool,:ol       |VVVVVVV//##/+/#/+/#/'/#/
 'cllllc         .:oooooooo;.        |VVVVV/'+/#/+/#/+/#/ /#/
   .;llc           .loooo:.          |VVV/'++/#/+/#/ /#/ /#/
      ,;             ;l;             'V/'  /##//##//##//###/

The rootiest neovim configuration you will ever see!

Pre-requisites

Note: While NeoVim may run without these prerequisites, functionality will be limited.
For the full experience, it is recommended to install the pre-requisites.

Required

git - Version control system
luarocks - Lua package manager
Nerd Fonts - Font with extended glyphs

Your terminal/client application must have a Nerd Font installed and support the Nerd Font glyphs.

Kitty or NeoVide are recommended.

Optional

ripgrep - A faster grep
fzf - A command-line fuzzy finder
fd - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
lazygit - A simple terminal UI for git commands
kitty - A fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal emulator
NeoVide - A fast, feature-rich, and modern NeoVim GUI
fish - A smart and user-friendly command line shell

Installation

Install NeoVim (0.9+)
Install Pre-requisites
Backup your current nvim configuration (if you have one)
```
mv ~/.config/nvim ~/.config/nvim.bak
```

Clone the repository

git clone git@github.com:rootiest/rootiest-nvim ~/.config/nvim

Enjoy! 🎉

Keep your current nvim configuration

This will download and open the Rootiest NeoVim configuration
without replacing your current NeoVim configuration.

Clone the repository

git clone git@github.com:rootiest/rootiest-nvim ~/.config/rootiest/rootiest-nvim

Open Neovim with this config:

NVIM_APPNAME=rootiest/rootiest-nvim/ nvim

Enjoy! 🎉
Fall in love and see Installation

Features

Comfortable keybindings and IDE-like features
Designed to be quick to load and easy to use without compromising on features
Leans heavily on lazy and luarocks for plugin management and lazy-loading
Catppuccin theme is default but a selection of others are also included
Automatic light/dark mode switching based on system theme
Extensive special configurations for kitty, including theme matching
Kitty scrollback and keybinding support
Special configuration for neovide
Detects terminal client and adjusts accordingly
ToggleTerm, fzf-lua, neotree, etc. for quick access to files and terminal
Many UI elements to enhance the experience
LSP support for many languages and automatic setup for many more
Remotely spawn a NeoVim instance over ssh, in a container, or from a git repo
Dashboard logo adjusts to the size of the windowa
Beautiful, unique, and feature-rich lualine statusline
When available, git-blame, WakaTime and music player stats components displayed in lualine
Warning system for missing dependencies
User-selected AI completion tool: codeium, copilot, tabnine, minuet, or none
WakaTime integration: Tracking time spent on code
Hardtime integration: Trains better use of vim motions and shortcuts
Colorscheme is remembered between sessions with astral.nvim
Highlight group customizations that are colorscheme-compliant
Lean and fast while providing a complete professional experience
Achieves sub-75ms startup time on my personal laptop, goal to never exceed 100ms

Screenshots

Features and

Main NeoVim PDE

Dashboard

Markdown view with inline images

Neovide Transparency

Options

Options are configured in the config/options.lua file under the ROOTIEST header.

The default values are:

--  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ROOTIEST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
vim.g.aitool      = "codeium" --Options:  codeium, copilot, tabnine, minuet, none
vim.g.usewakatime = true      --Options:  true, false
vim.g.usehardtime = false     --Options:  true, false
vim.g.useimage    = true      --Options:  true, false

Companion Tools

Rootiest Kitty Conf - A kitty configuration that is designed to work with this NeoVim configuration

Rootiest Fish Conf - A fish configuration that pairs well with this NeoVim configuration

Nerd Fonts - A collection of fonts that includes many icons and glyphs used in this configuration.

Dotfiles

Rootiest Dotfiles

README.md

Rootiest NeoVim Configuration