It’s been almost six years since switching over to NeoVim, and every so often I find myself showing off my current setup to other Vim / NeoVim users to give them an idea of what is possible with it. This post will be a quick list of recommended plugins and other tidbits you may want to incorporate in your setup as well.

1. Kitty

So it’s not anything directly related to NeoVim; however, if you’re looking at that sweet eye-candy and digging it then you’ll most likely want the terminal emulator that works the best with it across every OS. I rock it on both OSX and Ubuntu personally and I’ve heard it works well on Windows as well. I highly recommend Nerd Fonts with it as well with the patched Fira Code font with ligature support. This is what gives my icons in the demo picture above in the file explorer, which is NerdTree.

2. Telescope

This is an incredibly useful plugin that can really replace or augment some of the plugins you might already have in your tool-belt. It has a very good interface that lets plugin makers use it for all kinds of things, from the simple file fuzzy finder, to text searching capabilities, and even for things such as searching for all places a reference is located in a project.

3. Treesitter

If you’ve wished that syntax color highlighting was better, then you probably haven’t heard of or used nvim-treesitter. This amazing plugin has a deeper understanding for code and can give you a richer coloring. I’ve noticed with Ruby it does better then what I’ve seen with any of the bigger IDEs I see people using. The same is true for C# and Rust. I highly recommend you try it with a treesitter compatible color theme.

4. Conquer of Completion

If you’ve tried setting up different language servers with NeoVim you know it can be a pain. This largely takes away that headache using it’s own form of additional plugins. If you’ve ever used VSCode, it is very much like that in my opinion. I believe the story for setting up language servers has gotten a lot easier; however, this is extremely easy-mode so I haven’t tried anything else in almost three years when it comes to autocompletion.