Name: Bro Install Neovim On Windows And Setup Neovim Without Neovim Package Manager 🙀
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Author: ryugenxd

Alright everybody, just go ahead and install Neovim using Windows PowerShell Run As Adminstrator , and install Chocolatey. 😺

Check if your Chocolatey is installed:
choco --v

📝 Bro, haven't installed Chocolatey yet? 🙀
just visit the Chocolatey documentation here to install chocolatey.org/install

Install gitbash 😸

INSTALL OH MY POSH

choco install oh-my-posh -y

INSTALL NEOVIM

choco install neovim -y

Bro, you also need MinGW for sytanx highlighting install MinGW

NEOVIM CONFIG

Now bro, just check the location of the neovim path that loads the configuration.

🐱 open your neovim using command nvim
type this in neovim to check the configuration path :

:lua print(vim.fn.stdpath('config'))

that command will display your configuration path 📝
for example output in my nvim :
C:\users\ryugenxd\appdata\local\nvim

☝🐱 By default,the nvim folder does not exists if you never installed neovim.

Let's check if the nvim folder already axists using terminal

cd C:\users\<your username>\appdata\local
ls

if bro doesn't have the nvim folder yet 😼. bro needs to create it using the command mkdir nvim.

INITIALIZATION CONFIG

Bro needs to create a file named init.lua inside the nvim folder and create a new folder named plugins as well ☝🐱.

Open Folder plugins with windows terminal and paste this command:

git clone https://github.com/MunifTanjim/nui.nvim
git clone https://github.com/nvim-lua/plenary.nvim
git clone https://github.com/nvim-neo-tree/neo-tree.nvim
git clone https://github.com/nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons
git clone https://github.com/olimorris/onedarkpro.nvim
git clone https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter

INSTALL NERD FONT 😾

D2Coding 😹 extract and install all your font and gone to the windows terminal settings

open your json configuration 🙀.

"profiles": {
        "defaults": 
        {
            "backgroundImage": null,
            "backgroundImageOpacity": 0.70,
            "bellStyle": "none",
            "elevate": true,
            "font": 
            {
                "face": "D2CodingLigature Nerd Font",
                "weight": "bold"
            },
            "opacity": 33,
            "padding": "22",
            "useAcrylic": true
        },
}

Bro 😸,add this code to profiles configuration.

Alright ,for the final step, we need to configure the init.lua file. Paste this code inside it:

vim.opt.runtimepath:append("/users/ryugenxd/appdata/local/nvim/plugins/plenary.nvim")
vim.opt.runtimepath:append("/users/ryugenxd/appdata/local/nvim/plugins/nui.nvim")
vim.opt.runtimepath:append("/users/ryugenxd/appdata/local/nvim/plugins/nvim-web-devicons")
vim.opt.runtimepath:append("/users/ryugenxd/appdata/local/nvim/plugins/neo-tree.nvim")
vim.opt.runtimepath:append("/users/ryugenxd/appdata/local/nvim/plugins/nvim-treesitter")
vim.opt.runtimepath:append("/users/ryugenxd/appdata/local/nvim/plugins/onedarkpro.nvim")

require("neo-tree").setup({
  filesystem = {
    follow_current_file = {
      enabled = true
    },
    use_libuv_file_watcher = true,
  },
  window = {
    position = "left",
    width = 30
  },
});

require("nvim-treesitter.configs").setup({
  ensure_installed = {"javascript","html","css","typescript","json"},
  highlight = {
    enable = true,
    additional_vim_regex_highlighting = false,
  },
})


local ts_install = require("nvim-treesitter.install")
ts_install.update({with_sync = true })

require("onedarkpro").setup({
  options = {
    transparency = true,
  }
});

vim.cmd("colorscheme onedark_dark")

vim.api.nvim_set_keymap('n','<leader>e',':Neotree toggle<CR>',{noremap = true,silent = true })
vim.api.nvim_set_keymap('n','<Tab>',':Neotree reveal<CR>',{ noremap = true,silent = true})
vim.api.nvim_set_keymap('n','<S-Tab>',':Neotree close<CR>',{ noremap = true, silent = true})
vim.g.mapleader = " "

-- set clipboard options 
vim.opt.clipboard = "unnamedplus"

-- set tab size to 2 space 
vim.o.tabstop = 2
vim.o.expandtab = true
vim.o.softtabstop = 2
vim.o.shiftwidth = 2

-- set default teminal to powershell
vim.o.shell = "powershell.exe"
vim.o.shellxquote = ""
vim.o.shellcmdflag = "-NoLogo -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Command "
vim.o.shellquote = ""
vim.o.shellpipe = "| Out-File -Encoding UTF8 %s"
vim.o.shellredir = "| Out-File -Encoding UTF8 %s"

-- set relative line number
vim.wo.relativenumber = true

-- line break 
vim.opt.breakindent = true
vim.opt.formatoptions:remove "t"
vim.opt.linebreak = true

-- incremental search 
vim.opt.incsearch = true

-- terminal color 
vim.opt.termguicolors = true

-- limit views 18 lines scrolls 
vim.opt.scrolloff = 18

-- Disable text wrapping
vim.opt.wrap = false

vim.opt.signcolumn = "yes"
vim.opt.isfname:append "@-@"
vim.opt.updatetime = 50


-- Highlight settings for line numbers
vim.cmd[[highlight LineNr guifg=white]]  

-- Color for absolute line numbers
vim.cmd[[highlight CursorLineNr guifg=white]]  

-- Color for the line number under the cursor
vim.cmd[[highlight LineNr guifg=white]]
vim.cmd[[highlight EndOfBuffer guibg=NONE ctermbg=NONE]]

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