This is a follow-up to the first post on Neovim and LaTeX and the second one. If you write LaTeX in Neovim using the LazyVim distribution, you already get a fantastic editing experience thanks to VimTeX and texlab. But there’s one thing that often trips people up: how do you quickly wrap selected text in \emph{…}, […]
This is a follow-up to the first post on Neovim and LaTeX. I love LaTeX, but I don’t love LaTeX noise. If you use LazyVim’s lang.tex extra, you’ve probably seen a familiar friend pop up in your editor diagnostics: Underfull \hbox. It’s usually harmless, but it’s distracting—especially when you’re trying to focus on content. In […]
If you use Lazygit as your terminal Git UI, you know how convenient it is for staging, committing, and managing branches. I use it in Neovim (LazyVim already configures it). Integrating a custom pager (Lazygit Custom Pagers Documentation) can dramatically improve how diffs are displayed. In this blog post, I’ll document how to use delta: […]
I’m going to show you how to use Neovim on Gitpod. This can be useful for checking and testing your Neovim configuration. The example can be found here: https://github.com/LorenzoBettini/neovim-gitpod-example. I’m using a LazyVim distribution as a demonstration. The Gitpod custom Dockerfile, “.gitpod.Dockerfile”, must be tweaked to install Neovim and its requirements (especially for using Lazyvim):
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# You can find the new timestamped tags here: https://hub.docker.com/r/gitpod/workspace-full/tags FROM gitpod/workspace-full:2025-04-16-08-49-20 # Install packages that are not in the Ubuntu repos # the version in Ubuntu repos is too old for lazy.vim # shellcheck is not available at all in Ubuntu repos RUN brew update RUN brew install \ neovim \ shellcheck # install-packages is a wrapper for `apt` that helps skip a few commands in the docker env. # additional packages needed in neovim with this configuration # (tree is just to inspect folders, not needed by neovim) RUN sudo install-packages \ fzf \ ripgrep \ stow \ npm \ tree |
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The “remote” feature of flash.nvim is handy: it acts in “operator pending mode” to perform operations and then return to the original position. It took me some time to understand what it was doing, so I’m writing about it. I’m using it in the LazyVim distribution, which enables “flash” by default (and also “which-key”, which […]
This is the first part of a few tutorials on using the LaTeX typesetting system with Neovim using the LazyVim setup. I highly recommend LazyVim because it has many cool plugins configured with nice defaults. Moreover, as we see in this tutorial, it lets you quickly have VimTeX and the TexLab LSP up and running […]
This is the fourth part of a few tutorials on Java development with Neovim using the LazyVim setup. This post assumes you have already read and applied all the steps of the first, second, and third parts. You need Java installed (possibly 21), while Maven is optional. I will use this Maven example during the […]
In Neovim, when you add a new word to your spellchecking dictionary with the command “zg”, the word will be added to a “.add” file in your config directory in the subdirectory “spell”. For example, “spell/en.utf-8.add”, depending on your locale. That’s a textual file you might want to share among different machines, e.g., part of […]
This is the third part of a few tutorials on Java development with Neovim using the LazyVim setup. This post assumes you already read and applied all the steps of the first part and the second part. You need Java installed (possibly 21), while Maven is optional. I will use this Maven example during the […]
LazyVim has just released version 14, with some new, interesting, and breaking features. The first breaking feature is that Telescope is no longer the default fuzzy finder picker; the default is fzf-lua. I haven’t been using Neovim for a long time, but I do like Telescope, and I’m not sure I like the new picker. […]
This is the second part of a few tutorials on Java development with Neovim using the LazyVim setup. This post assumes you already read and applied all the steps of the first part. You need Java installed (possibly 21), while Maven is optional. I will use this Maven example during the tutorial: https://github.com/LorenzoBettini/maven-bank-example, part of […]
Updated 16 December 2024 (for Telescope) This is the first part of a few tutorials on Java development with Neovim using the LazyVim setup. I highly recommend LazyVim because it has many cool plugins configured with nice defaults. Moreover, as we see in this tutorial, it lets you quickly have the Java LSP up and […]