Writing an inital configuration

Let’s start by creating some very simple settings that you might want for your Lua configuration. Open up your init.lua file and add the following code:

local opt = vim.opt

opt.cursorline = true
opt.number = true
opt.relativenumber = true
opt.termguicolors = true

What Does It Do?

This code:

• Creates a variable called opt, which maps to the global options available in vim
• Sets a cursorline
• Sets (relative) line numbers which are useful
• Uses true colors for the terminal

Sensible Defaults

Neovim has a lot of sensible defaults, meaning a lot of the typical settings you might need are already set internally.