Neoconf - Neovim Config-Tool

Neoconf is a CLI-Tool to help configuring Neovim.

WIP

It is highly WIP so use at own risk.

Goals

1. Lua-Free configuration: no need to open the actual configuration files
2. Flexible integration: run from terminal or as a Neovim plugin
3. Abstraction for config: no obscure values you have to google/:help to find out what they do
4. sensible defaults
5. helpers, f.e. install language servers
6. database of plugins incl. installations / stars, searchable

Basics

Simply make sure neoconf is in your $PATH. Download the binary from here or build from source:

git clone https://github.com/abenz1267/neoconf
cd neoconf
go install

1. init: looks for all required folders/files and creates them, if they don't already exist. Also installs all plugins listed in the "plugins.json" file.

Plugin Management

Barebone management of plugins is in place! Not defining a branch explicitly -> neoconf will first try to clone master, if that fails it will try to clone main. Right now it is not possible to define opt packages. Installation & updates are processed concurrently.

Commands:

1. install <plugin1> <plugin2> ...: installs all plugins provided and all missing plugins from 'plugins.json'. Creates plugin configuration-file under lua/plugins
   1. Branch: glepnir/galaxyline.nvim@SOMEBRANCH
   2. ....what about post-install hooks, bro? This is a bit sub-optimal at the moment: neoconf will look for a cd DIR && yarn install or yarn install command in the repository's README file. I'd definitely prefer a config.json file with meta-data to be parsed, but this would require work from maintainers.
2. update: updates all plugins
3. clean: removes plugins not found in "plugins.json", removes <plugin>.lua from lua/plugins
4. remove: this will list all plugins installed and prompt you to enter the index of the plugins you want to remove. Does not remove plugin config. Automatically.
5. list: Simply lists all plugins installed.

Todo

• Configuration management (editor configuration, ...plugin configuration?)
• create a database in order to be able to search for plugins
• neovim plugin!