Neovim Sensible

Contents

• Introduction
• Changes
  • Settings
  • Auto-commands
  • Mappings
• Installation
  • Vim
  • Neovim

Introduction

Neovim’s defaults are pretty good. They are much better than Vim’s at least. But they could be improved, which is why I created this plugin. It is inspired by vim-sensible, but vim-sensible’s changes are only useful to Vim users and not Neovim users because Neovim is already more sensible than Vim. Technically, you can use this plugin even if you are a Vim user, but it is intended for Neovim users. If you use Vim, I recommend installing both vim-sensible and Neovim Sensible.

Changes

Settings

• window title is enabled

• default titlestring is "Neovim – %t%( %m%)"

• line numbering (number and relativenumber) is enabled

• foldenable is disabled

• mouse is for Vim and not the terminal

• cursorline is enabled

• the default indentation level is set to 4 instead of 8

• smartindent is enabled

• termbidi is enabled for right-to-left language writers

• colorcolumn is set to textwidth + 1

• do not show the hideous netrw banner

Auto-commands

• disable marking tab and space characters for diff files
• disable spell-checking (if it is enabled) for diff and ebuild files
• set the textwidth to 72 for gitcommit files
• set two colorcolumns for gitcommit: 51 and 73
• start gitcommit files in insert mode
• enable 24-bit colours if the terminal supports it
• set the spell-checker language to the locale’s default language

Mappings

Completion

Mode	Key	Mapping
Insert	Control-Space	Omni complete
Insert	Control-L	Line complete

Clipboard

Mode	Key	Mapping
Normal	Leader-Y	Copy file contents to clipboard
Normal	Leader-P	Paste from clipboard
Visual	Shift-Y	Copy to clipboard
Visual	Shift-D	Cut to clipboard

Movement

Mode	Key	Mapping
Insert	Up	Go up even when a completion menu is visible
Insert	Down	Go down even when a completion menu is visible

Installation

Vim

`# user` git clone https://github.com/amarakon/vim-sensible ~/.vim/pack/vendor/start/vim-sensible

Neovim

`# user` git clone https://github.com/amarakon/vim-sensible ~/.local/share/nvim/site/pack/default/start/vim-sensible