Question about your neovim

[thepenguinthatwants]

Hi Kutsan!

I thought init.vim is the one that defines all the sources that affects neovim. Such as
runtime startup/disable.vim and runtime startup/variables.vim

How come you can define settings on dotfiles/.vim/plugin/packages/ etc yet they are not written in dotfiles/.vim/init.vim ?

[kutsan]

Hi there!

Because folders such as autoload, colors, ftplugin, indent, keymap, plugin, syntax have a special meaning in vim/neovim world. They all behave differently and each of them have its rules.

For example all files with .vim extention in plugin folder and its subfolders loads just after our init.vim/vimrc loaded up. Don't think them like a real vim plugin, you can put anything in plugin folder. Even though why my init.vim file has runtime startup/disable.vim something, that's because I want to manually load those files just before files in my plugin folder start loading.

Also, see the files in my ftplugin folder, the way you name them matters because when you open a JavaScript file, javascript.vim will be loaded because JavaScript files have filetype set to javascript.

There is so much to tell, I heavily recommend this for further reading: https://vimways.org/2018/from-vimrc-to-vim/

Feel free to ask more and I'll try to explain.