practicalli

practicalli-johnny 2026-02-25T00:51:49.577579Z

Migrating the Practicalli nvim-astro5 config for Neovim to AstroNvim version 6 was so easy that it only took a few minutes (once I fixed a typo I made with the version number facepalm ) I have been using the updated config today and havent had any issues. There is an nvim-astro6 branch that I pushed to the GitHub repository should anyone wish to try this out yourself. https://github.com/practicalli/nvim-astro5/tree/nvim-astro6 Details of https://practical.li/journal/a-glimer-of-sunshine/#neovim (without chaning my existing config) are in my journal. I dont plan to release this change yet, as I want to give all the plugins I use a test with the rewritten version of Treesitter (which should be even faster now).

practicalli-johnny 2026-02-25T01:03:15.834969Z

I am fairly happy with the Debian Linux post install and development tool scripts. Each tool is now its own script and called by dev-tools-install.sh script to batch install all of them with one command. https://github.com/practicalli/dotfiles/tree/main/debian-linux Where possible I've used https://github.com/devmatteini/dra to install the Binary file or AppImage directly from GitHub, making those script independent of Debian Linux. DRA was very useful for Neovim, as I could specify the AppImage to download and the full path (includinhg file name) of where to install neovim. I installed the current stable Neovim version (0.11.6) as nvim (the usual command name) and the Neovim pre-release (version 0.12 to be) as nvim-nightly I have an astro script alias that calls neovim 0.11.x with Practicalli nvim-astro5 confic And an astro6 shell alias that calls neovim 0.12 with the updated astro-nvim5 command (nvim-astro6 branch). I can run both these configs in parallel in different terminal sessions, to help with testing (and avoid being blocked by issues)