Neovim Setup

instantOS comes preconfigured with my personal Neovim setup. This has a few unique features which I will list here.

Install on other Distros

This config should be roughly distro agnostic, as long as you have the required packages installed using your respective package manager. MacOS should also work, although it has not been tested in a while.

Requirements

• Neovim 0.12.0 or higher
• Git (for plugin management)
• Npm (for Mason Lsp)
• Gcc (For Treesitter)
• ins

Installation

rm -rf ~/.config/nvim # remove existing config
ins dot clone https://github.com/instantOS/dotfiles # clone instantOS dotfiles
nvim # auto installs everything on first run

Snippets

General usage

Many snippets are triggered automatically when typing certain keywords. Pressing ctrl+x will undo a snippet expansion so the trigger word can be typed as is without the snippet expanding.

Anki

This is meant to be used with the ObsidianToAnki plugin for obsidian. These snippets are not that useful outside of anki card creation, so they only trigger if your markdown file contains the word anki in its name.

MQ generates a Math question, meaning

Q: $...$
A: This is the answer to the math question

All of the LaTex snipets are also working here, whenever you are inside a math environment, meaning $...$ or $$...$$.

LaTex

This contains a port of the LateX-Suite snippets from Obsidian to LuaSnip. Most of the snippets work the same, some have been expanded.

Integrals for example tend to be a lot of tedious typing, so I added the following snippet

$$
Int
$$

Expands to the following

$$
\int_{}^{}\mathrm{d}
$$

Pressing tab will move the cursor to the next placeholder, so the following can be typed quickly

$$
\int_{0}^{1} x\mathrm{d}x
$$

Sum has the same functionality here.

Typing dm will generate a display math environment

These snippets will work in .tex files as well as in markdown files within math environments.

Markdown

Typing the name of a programming language at the beginning of a line followed by a colon (:) creates a code block for that language. (of course ctrl x will undo this if you need the name of the language at the beginning of the line)

python:

Expands into

```python 
<cursor here>
```

Typst

The syntax of typst is already very concise, and in most cases is what the latex snippets are before expanding. I have found typst very pleasant to write even without snippets, so there are not a whole lot of snippets for typst present.

Video

Any markdown file with video in its name will be treated as an ins video file, which comes with some extra snipets for quicker video editing.

music: expands to a music block

ps expands to a pausing slide block (this is ps at the beginning of a line followed by two spaces)