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Building a standalone nixvim configuration

A standalone configuration is one that exists in its own project/repository. This means that you can externalize your entire neovim configuration, including flake inputs, nixpkgs version, etc...

This decoupling of neovim and NixOS configurations has multiple advantages including mixing stable/unstable nixpkgs and the ability to run your neovim configuration outside of your NixOS configuration. You can even run it outside of NixOS all together.

True Color (24-bit) and italics with alacritty + tmux + vim (neovim)

This should make True Color (24-bit) and italics work in your tmux session and vim/neovim when using Alacritty (and should be compatible with any other terminal emulator, including Kitty).

Testing colors

Running this script should look the same in tmux as without.

curl -s https://gist.githubusercontent.com/lifepillar/09a44b8cf0f9397465614e622979107f/raw/24-bit-color.sh >24-bit-color.sh

Migrate GPG Keys from One Workstation to Another

Replace [your key] with your key ID

To obtain your key ID

gpg --list-secret-keys --keyid-format LONG

Which returns something like

Using git-submodules to version-control Vim plugins

If you work across many computers (and even otherwise!), it's a good idea to keep a copy of your setup on the cloud, preferably in a git repository, and clone it on another machine when you need. Thus, you should keep the .vim directory along with your .vimrc version-controlled.

But when you have plugins installed inside .vim/bundle (if you use pathogen), or inside .vim/pack (if you use Vim 8's packages), keeping a copy where you want to be able to update the plugins (individual git repositories), as well as your vim-configuration as a whole, requires you to use git submodules.

Creating the repository

Initialize a git repository inside your .vim directory, add everything (including the vimrc), commit and push to a GitHub/BitBucket/GitLab repository:

cd ~/.vim

	#Requires AutoHotkey v2
	; Install the keyboard hook to capture the real key state of the keyboard
	InstallKeybdHook(true)
	; Disable the CapsLock key
	SetCapsLockState("alwaysoff")
	; Send esc key when Capslock is pressed as default
	g_DoNotAbortSendEsc := true

	$*Capslock::{ ; Capture CapsLock key press
	global g_DoNotAbortSendEsc ; use global variable g_DoNotAbortSendEsc

	! XTerm resources
	!
	! Remember to run `xrdb < .Xresources` after changing anything.
	!
	! Tavis Ormandy <[email protected]>

	! Set the default UI font (menus, toolbar, etc)
	XTerm*XftFont: Segoe UI:size=10:antialias=true:style=Regular

	! Color of UI Components

	#!/bin/bash

	# This code was modified from Thorsten by me:
	# https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1024618#p1024618

	# sets a tag defined wallpaper when tag changes
	declare -A WALLPAPER

	# These wallpapers come with Deepin desktop environment, but also look great in hlwm
	DIR=/usr/share/backgrounds