Managing User Configuration

AstroNvim is installed with the lazy.nvim plugin manager just like any other plugin in Neovim. The template provided in the installation instructions is simply a minimal Neovim configuration with the lazy.nvim plugin manager that adds AstroNvim along with some example code. This makes it easy to back the configuration the configuration to a git repository.

Setting up a user configuration

Fresh Installation

1. Use our AstroNvim/template GitHub template to make a new personal user configuration repository. For these steps we will assume your repo is username/astronvim_config

2. Clone your empty new repository to your ~/.config/nvim folder

   git clone https://github.com/username/astronvim_config.git ~/.config/nvim

Followed Getting Started

1. Follow the Getting Started Guide Installation

2. Create a new empty repository on Github (in this example we will assume your repo is username/astronvim_config). Then from your ~/.config/nvim repository where you cloned the repo:

   git init
   git add --all
   git commit -m "Initial commit"
   git branch -M main
   git remote add origin https://github.com/username/astronvim_config.git
   git push -u origin main

Installing a user configuration

If you have already created your user configuration and have it tracked in a repository, then the process of getting it installed on a new system is very easy!

1. Clone your repository

   git clone https://github.com/username/astronvim_config ~/.config/nvim

2. Initialize AstroNvim

   nvim --headless -c 'quitall'