Neovim for Clojure development

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Neovim 0.9.0 for Clojure development

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Covering Neovim for Clojure quick start and highlighting the main aspects of using Neovim setup, as covered in the Practicalli Neovim book.

Related: https://github.com/practicalli/neovim/issues/7
Create a step-by-step guide to creating a Neovim based development environment for Clojure

Installing Neovim 0.9.x

• Details referred to in Practicalli Neovim
  • app image only provided for Linux
  • build from source
  • generate .deb package
  • supporting tools - xclip, find-fd

Multiple Configurations
use NVIM_APPNAME to set the Neovim configuration to use on startup, optionally defining shell aliases for regularly used configurations

alias astro="NVIM_APPNAME=astronvim nvim"
alias cajus="NVIM_APPNAME=cajus nvim"
alias neovim-config="NVIM_APPNAME=neovim-config nvim"
alias neovim-config-redux="NVIM_APPNAME=neovim-config-redux nvim"
# alias nvchad="NVIM_APPNAME=NvChad nvim"

Switch between AstroNvim, Cajus or any other Nvim configuration to have a simple way to compare packages and configurations.

Practicalli Neovim inlcudes a zsh script as a TUI configuration launcher.

Conjure REPL connected editor workflow

• :conjureSchool tutorial within Neovim for an essentials introduction, which uses the key bindings

Suggested plugins

• parinfer managing parens
• nvim-cmp autocomplete integrated with clojure-lsp
• lazy package manager
• mason LSP, format and lint tool manager (optionally with null-ls to allow format & lint output to be used like an LSP server - where non exists)

Neovim community configuration overview

• AstroNvim includes AstroCommunity clojure pack, lua config (mostly a data structure)

• Magic kit (by Conjure author - using Fennel (nfnl)

• cajus provides conjure and other essential plugins using Fennel (nfnl) config

• Summary
  Neovim is an excellent basis for building a low-resource and feature rich development tool