jakehamilton/editor

My text editor

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Editor

Choose the right tool for the job… and Neovim for everything else.

This repository contains my editor configuration. It provides an out of the box development environment using Neovim and a handful of plugins. The editor is meant to have quality of life improvements that I have learned to appreciate and remain minimal in terms of functionality.

Quick Start

Run this editor directly using Nilla.

nilla run -p github:jakehamilton/editor

Nix

Nix is used to fetch dependencies and to package the editor as a single unit that can be shipped to different systems or environments. Nilla is used to manage the Nix project, npins is used to pin dependencies, and Gift Wrap is used to build a customized Neovim package. The entrypoint for Nix is [nilla.nix]!(./nilla.nix).

Fennel

This repository’s configuration is written in Fennel rather than Lua. Still, Lua is required to begin the process. This initialization code exists inline in [package.nix]!(./package.nix) using Gift Wrap’s extraInitLua option. There, Fennel is imported and installed into the Lua runtime. After installation, Fennel code can be imported directly using Lua’s require function. From here, the configuration in [config/fnl/editor/init.fnl]!(./config/fnl/editor/init.fnl) takes over.

In addition to the bootstrapping process, some macros are automatically injected to ease development. These macros live in [config/fnl/editor/macros]!(./config/fnl/editor/macros) and are hardcoded in the initial Lua script to be prepended to any Fennel source that is imported. This allows import, import/macro, import/lua, export, vim-option, and vim-global to all be used globally.

Theme

The color theme specification for this editor lives in the jakehamilton/bliss repository. In this repository, the colors are implemented in [config/fnl/editor/theme.fnl]!(./config/fnl/editor/theme.fnl). This is not done in a best-practices kind of way. Instead, it has been done organically by changing colors as the editor has been used and customized. There are likely parts missing and it is not capable of being imported in another configuration without effort.