Nathan's Dotfiles

🛠 Basic toolkit:

• neovim (the goodness that is vim but with LSPs and MORE)
  • Optimized for front-end development.
• zsh
  • p10k prompt (nice defaults, easy setup)
  • bashmarks (cd shortcuts, embedded for no outside dependencies)
• wezterm (my favorite terminal editor)
• homebrew (bin package manager)
• asdf (for managing other languages)

💻 Installation:

Terminal Emulator

Download WezTerm.

Download Homebrew and Git

Follow the Homebrew installation instructions then install Git with:

brew install git

Checkout dotfiles

Checkout a clone of these files with:

git clone git@github.com:nathanlong/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles

Then cd ~/.dotfiles

Run the install script

All the config files are managed from the ~/.dotfiles directory, but we create symlinks to all the different config locations. To run the full install:

cd ~/.dotfiles
./bin/install.sh

Follow the prompts to link the configs, and download brew and global npm packages.

Open Neovim, install plugins

Now that Neovim is installed, run nvim in the terminal and Lazy.nvim should install all Neovim plugins.

And that should be it! Happy coding!

LSPs

There are three parts to how LSPs are installed and configured:

1. Mason — installs server binaries only in ~/.local/share/nvim/mason/bin, which Mason prepends to PATH inside Neovim.
2. nvim-lspconfig — ships ~407 ready-made server configs as lsp/<name>.lua files. Lazy puts its directory on the runtimepath. The lspconfig.util helpers are a side-car, not the main payload.
3. Neovim core (vim.lsp.config / vim.lsp.enable) — merges configs and starts clients. See :h lsp-config.

Neovim collects every lsp/<name>.lua on the runtimepath and merges them with tbl_deep_extend('force', ...). Later sources win:

1. lsp/ on the runtimepath — nvim-lspconfig's copies live here
2. after/lsp/ on the runtimepath — any overrides live here
3. vim.lsp.config('<name>', {...}) calls — highest precedence
4. vim.lsp.config('*', {...}) — special case, merges lowest, below everything above

To add an LSP server:

1. Install the binary: :Mason
2. Add its name to the vim.lsp.enable({...}) list in init.lua
3. Only if defaults need changing, create after/lsp/<name>.lua