How do I set up…

• barebone Neovim setup?
• a Nerdfont for Terminal?

What is…

• the difference between terminal, shell and console?

barebone Neovim setup?

This barebones Neovim setup has:

• lazy.nim plugin manager
• structured plugins/ directory setup
• color scheme
• nvim-tree plugin (for demo on how to install a plugin)

Step 1: lazy.nim

Follow the installation guide, using the Structured Setup and set up your plugins/ folder following Usage > Structuring Your Plugins.

Your directory should look like the following:

/Users/ashliew/.config/nvim
├── init.lua
├── lazy-lock.json
├── lua
│   ├── brainuser5705
│   │   ├── lazy.lua
│   │   └── settings.lua
│   └── plugins                 // each file in this directory is for a plugin
│       ├── devicons.lua
│       ├── init.lua
│       ├── tree.lua
│       └── treesitter.lua
└── README.md

Step 3: nvim-tree

Add the plugin module to plugins/.

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return {
  {
    "nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua",
    version = "*",
    lazy = false,
    dependencies = {
      "nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons",
    },
    config = function ()
      require("nvim-tree").setup({
        sort = { 
          sorter = "case_sensitive" 
        }
      })
    end
  }
}

This step requires a Nerd Font in order to properly display icons. See Nerd Font.

a Nerdfont for Terminal?

Nerdfonts are often required for several Neovim plugins for proper display of icons.

1. Download a Nerd Fonts on your system.
   • Alternatively, you can download all the fonts with brew install font-hack-nerd-font
2. Click on the downloaded font file to install it.
3. Go to Terminal > Settings > Profiles > Font and select a Nerd Font.

the difference between terminal, shell and console?

Whilst ricing, you might come across these terms…“make zsh your shell”, “use iTerm as your terminal/terminal emulator”… but what is the difference?

Here’s how I see it:

• Shell: the actual interpreter of your commands that you put into the terminal
• Terminal: software (these days) that takes input and displays output for the shell
• Terminal Emulator: same thing as a terminal, emulator meaning software since historically terminals were physical devices
• Console: a physical/virtual device that’s connected to the computer at a low level (kernet, bios, system messages)