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My Neovim and Zsh setups, wrapped into a docker container (automated build). Also includes other common dev tools such as the silver searcher (aka: ag). A full list is forthcoming since I'm still in the process of adding things to this project.

I did this because I've had to switch machines WAY too many times. Another reason though is because I wanted a similar development experience between my MacOS, Linux & Windows machines so I figured that docker was the way to go.

If you just want to run vim though I highly recommend that you take a look at my NeoVim starter template to begin your NeoVim journey 🥳

Requirements

NEOVIM. Just use Neovim, it'll save you a lot of configuration trouble.

Required Plugins

Specific plugins require python. So make sure that you have python installed, along with pip

Aliases

I personally like to have two separate aliases, only one of which directly uses this container. The first is the dex alias (short for docker exec). I like to use this as a shortcut for:

docker run -v $(pwd):/root/workspace --workdir /root/workspace --rm -ti "$@"

This allows me to mount my current working directory into /root/workspace for any arbitrary container. So for example if I am working on a python project and I'm in that project directory, I just use dex python:3.6 and I am automatically dropped into a shell environment that has all development tools necessary to work on that project (e.g.: python runtime, pip, etc).

However, because my VIM installation is a bit more involved and needs tools that may be separate from whatever language I'm working in I have the dvim alias (short for docker-vim). This alias uses dex in conjunction with this container.

Bash / Zsh

function dex {
  if docker version &> /dev/null; then
    docker run -v $(pwd):/root/workspace --workdir /root/workspace --rm -ti "$@"
  else
    echo "Docker isn't installed or has not been started."
  fi
}

function dvim {
    dex --entrypoint "vim" chr0n1x/dev-env
}