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Features

This page provides a comprehensive overview of the key features and capabilities of the Llawn Neovim configuration.

Language Server Protocol (LSP)

Comprehensive LSP support for multiple languages with native Neovim 0.11+ integration. See LSP Configurations for detailed setup and configuration.

User Interface

Theme

  • Rose Pine Moon: A beautiful, low-contrast color scheme
  • Custom Highlights: Enhanced visibility for invisible characters
  • Transparent Background: Clean, distraction-free editing

Status Line

  • Lualine: Informative status line with git, lsp, treesitter, formatter, and linter integration

Lualine Status Line

  • Mode Indicators: Clear visual feedback for current mode
  • File Information: Encoding, file type, and position

All menus use Telescope for interactive selection with previews and keybindings for quick actions.

  • Window Menu (<A-w>): Interactive window management

    • Horizontal/vertical splits
    • Navigation between windows
    • Window closing

  • Git Menu (<A-g>): Advanced git operations

    • Log: Fuzzy-searchable commit history with filtering (author, type, message)
    • Diff: File-by-file diff preview for staged/unstaged changes
    • Browser integration for commits on GitHub/GitLab

Here is the Git Log Menu:

Git Log Menu

Here is the Git Diff Menu:

Git Diff Menu

  • Treesitter Menu (<A-t>): Parser lifecycle management

    • Install/update/uninstall parsers with status indicators
    • Repository URL access
    • Categorized view (up-to-date, outdated, not installed)

Treesitter Manager

  • Mason Menu (<A-m>): LSP and tool server management

    • Category filtering (LSP, DAP, Linters, Formatters, Other)
    • Package information previews
    • Version status and update management

Mason Manager

Additional utility menus accessed via quit operations or keybindings:

  • Unsaved Buffers Menu: Interactive save/discard for modified files with diff previews

Unsaved Buffers Menu

  • Swap Files Menu: Recovery and cleanup of swap files for closed buffers

File Navigation

  • Harpoon: Quick file marking and navigation (1-3 keys)
  • Telescope: Fuzzy finding for files, buffers, help, and grep
  • Yazi: Modern file manager integration

Editing Enhancements

  • Clipboard Integration: System clipboard support
  • Undo Tree: Visual undo history management
  • Automatic Pair Closing: Lexima for auto-closing brackets, quotes, and customizable pairs

Development Tools

Code Generation

  • Neogen: Generate documentation strings for functions and classes
  • Completion: Intelligent code completion with LSP integration

Git Integration

  • LazyGit: Terminal-based git interface
  • Git Signs: Inline git status indicators with hunk navigation
  • Telescope Git: Git file and status browsing

Productivity

  • Which-Key: Interactive key binding hints
  • Llawn Colors: Color pickers (HexColors, ColorPick2D), completion, and highlighting with virtual hints

Color Picker 2D

Telescope Color Picker

The custom color highlighter provides virtual hints for hex codes and enhances visibility for color-related elements:

Color Highlights

LSP Management

  • Mason: Automatic LSP server installation
  • Mason Lockfile: Version locking for installed LSP servers (mason-lock.json)
  • Mason-LSPConfig: Bridge between Mason and nvim-lspconfig

Configuration Options

Editor Settings

  • Line Numbers: Relative numbering with current line absolute
  • Indentation: 2-space tabs, smart indentation
  • Search: Incremental search with preview
  • Wrapping: Soft wrapping with break indent
  • Color Column: 80-character guide line

File Handling

  • Persistent Undo: Undo history survives sessions
  • Backup Management: Sensible backup and swap file locations
  • File Type Detection: Enhanced filename patterns

Plugin Ecosystem

The configuration includes carefully selected plugins that enhance productivity without bloat. All plugins are lazy-loaded for optimal startup performance.

Plugin Manager

Lazy.nvim

Repository: folke/lazy.nvim

The modern plugin manager for Neovim that provides lazy loading, dependency management, update checking, and performance profiling.

Appearance & UI

Rose Pine Theme

Repository: rose-pine/neovim

A beautiful, warm dark theme with moon variant, transparent background, and custom highlights for invisible characters.

Alpha Dashboard

Repository: goolord/alpha-nvim

A fast and fully customizable greeter for Neovim with quick access to recent files, commands, and settings.

Lualine Status Line

Repository: nvim-lualine/lualine.nvim

Blazing fast status line with git, LSP and treesitter integration, file information, and mode indicators.

Llawn Colors

Repository: llawn/llawn-colors

Custom color utilities providing color pickers, completion, and highlighting with virtual hints for hex codes.

Language Server Protocol (LSP)

Mason & Mason-LSPConfig

Automatic LSP server management with auto-installation for clangd, fortls, gopls, lua_ls, ty, and ruff.

Nvim-CMP & CMP-Nvim-LSP

Intelligent code completion with LSP integration, multiple sources, and snippet support.

Telescope

Repository: nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim

Highly extendable fuzzy finder for files, live grep, buffers, and help.

Harpoon

Repository: ThePrimeagen/harpoon

Quick file marking and navigation with persistent lists.

Syntax & Parsing

Treesitter

Repository: nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter

Advanced syntax highlighting, code navigation, and structural editing with tree-sitter parsers. Comprehensive menu for parser management and automatic installation for configured languages. Version locking for installed parsers (treesitter-lock.json).

Supported Parsers

The following parsers are automatically installed:

Supported Languages

Language Treesitter Parser
lua lua
vim vim, vimdoc
markdown markdown, markdown_inline
json json
tree-sitter query query

Render Markdown

Repository: MeanderingProgrammer/render-markdown.nvim

Enhanced markdown rendering with syntax highlighting for code blocks and improved readability.

File Management

Yazi File Manager

Repository: mikavilpas/yazi.nvim

Modern terminal file manager with floating windows and LazyGit integration.

Git Integration

Gitsigns

Repository: lewis6991/gitsigns.nvim

Git signs in the sign column with hunk staging, navigation, and blame features.

LazyGit

Repository: kdheepak/lazygit.nvim

Terminal UI for git commands with full workflow support.

Development Tools

Neogen

Repository: danymat/neogen

Documentation generation for functions and classes across multiple languages.

UndoTree

Repository: mbbill/undotree

Visual undo history with tree view and persistent storage.

Which-Key

Repository: folke/which-key.nvim

Interactive key binding hints with popup display and grouping.

Vim Be Good

Repository: ThePrimeagen/vim-be-good

A vim practice game to improve your editing skills through fun challenges.

Lexima

Repository: cohama/lexima.vim

Auto close parentheses and repeat by dot dot dot... Provides automatic closing of pairs such as (), {}, "", and customizable rules for any context.

Customization

Easy Extension

The modular structure makes it simple to add new features:

  • New Languages: Add LSP servers to the servers table
  • Custom Keymaps: Extend the keymaps.lua file
  • Plugin Addition: Add to the plugins directory
  • Theme Customization: Modify lua/llawn/plugins/colors.lua

Configuration Philosophy

  • Progressive Enhancement: Start simple, add complexity as needed
  • Community Standards: Follow Neovim best practices