LazyVim Setup Notes

General notes

Don’t use PowerShell

Don’t use PowerShell to run the setup commands. Instead, get a terminal emulator like Alacritty and Kitty.

• The Nerd Fonts won’t work if you use PowerShell.
• I chose Alacritty as my emulator.

Nerd Fonts and themes

A terminal emulator supports a custom font that can display all the nifty neovim icons.

• JetBrainsMono Nerd Font — see the section below on nerd font and theme setup.
• Nerd Fonts are set up in Alacritty config (not neovim config).
• Alacritty config file must be named alacritty.toml and, on Windows, must be placed here: ~/AppData/Roaming/alacritty/.

Compiler errors

Don’t worry about the errors regarding C compilers, fd, ripgrep, etc. These are easy to resolve if you set up choco or scoop.

Configuring lazyit

lazygit can also be installed using choco/scoop. However, a config file is also required.

• Create a new directory in your ~/AppData/Local/nvim folder called lazygit. Then, create a new file called config.yml.
• Copy the lengthy config example, provided on Jesse Duffield’s GitHub . Paste it into your config file and modify as needed.

Additional details

Choco packages

If you have chocolatey installed and set up on Windows, you can run choco install [packagename] commands to get the following:

• ripgrep
• fd
• lazygit

lazygit note

After installing via Chocolatey, paste the following snippet into your ~/AppData/Local/nvim/init.lua file:

return {
  "kdheepak/lazygit.nvim",
  cmd = {
    "LazyGit",
    "LazyGitConfig",
    "LazyGitCurrentFile",
    "LazyGitFilter",
    "LazyGitFilterCurrentFile",
  },
  -- optional for floating window border decoration
  dependencies = {
    "nvim-lua/plenary.nvim",
  },
  -- setting the keybinding for LazyGit with 'keys' is recommended in
  -- order to load the plugin when the command is run for the first time
  keys = {
    { "<leader>lg", "<cmd>LazyGit<cr>", desc = "LazyGit" }
  }
}

Theme and Nerd Font setup

• Fonts are stored here on Windows: C:\Windows\Fonts
• Download the zipped .ttf files from the NerdFonts download page.
• To enable the font in Alacritty, create your alacritty.toml config file as described above. Then, insert the following code snippet:

[font.normal]
family = "JetBrainsMono Nerd Font"

Installing a C compiler

If you want to use the GNU C Compiler (gcc), follow the excellent GCC setup instructions from the C++ documentation .

• Note: This requires installation of MSYS2.
• Once MSYS2 is iinstalled, there are some configuration steps which will automatically set up the compiler.