Fix: Add treesitter option to use pre-compiled binaries

On Windows, when new users install kickstart it blows up by default because having a C compiler in PATH is not a reaonle expectation on hat platform. Also, this should decrease first use startup time substantially on all platforms because curl-ing down a binary is much faster than compiling from scratch. Also updated README as Windows folks are expected to turn on developer mode so symlinks and 'curl' will work.
fixup: change comment to reflect auto_install
2025-12-07 01:25:43 -08:00 · 2024-02-27 15:07:07 -05:00 · 2024-02-26 10:46:31 -05:00 · 2024-02-26 10:45:32 -05:00 · 2024-02-26 10:03:53 -05:00
2 changed files with 13 additions and 1 deletions
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -183,6 +183,11 @@ return {

 Installation may require installing build tools, and updating the run command for `telescope-fzf-native`

+Users should follow the [Treesitter Windows
+Installation](https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter/wiki/Windows-support)
+instructions to allow Treesitter language extensions to be downloaded from
+Github.
+
 See `telescope-fzf-native` documentation for [more details](https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope-fzf-native.nvim#installation)

 This requires:
--- a/init.lua
+++ b/init.lua
@@ -184,10 +184,14 @@ vim.keymap.set('n', '<C-l>', '<C-w><C-l>', { desc = 'Move focus to the right win
 vim.keymap.set('n', '<C-j>', '<C-w><C-j>', { desc = 'Move focus to the lower window' })
 vim.keymap.set('n', '<C-k>', '<C-w><C-k>', { desc = 'Move focus to the upper window' })

+-- [[ Basic Autocommands ]]
+--  See :help lua-guide-autocommands
+
 -- Highlight when yanking (copying) text
 --  Try it with `yap` in normal mode
 --  See `:help vim.highlight.on_yank()`
 vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd('TextYankPost', {
+  desc = 'Highlight when yanking (copying) text',
  group = vim.api.nvim_create_augroup('kickstart-highlight-yank', { clear = true }),
  callback = function()
    vim.highlight.on_yank()
@@ -767,11 +771,14 @@ require('lazy').setup({
    build = ':TSUpdate',
    config = function()
      -- [[ Configure Treesitter ]] See `:help nvim-treesitter`
+      -- Use precompiled binaries for faster startup.
+      -- This also means Windows users won't fail on startup by default.
+      require('nvim-treesitter.install').prefer_git = false

      ---@diagnostic disable-next-line: missing-fields
      require('nvim-treesitter.configs').setup {
        ensure_installed = { 'bash', 'c', 'html', 'lua', 'markdown', 'vim', 'vimdoc' },
-        -- Autoinstall languages that are not installed. Defaults to false (but you can change for yourself!)
+        -- Autoinstall languages that are not installed
        auto_install = true,
        highlight = { enable = true },
        indent = { enable = true },
Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Chris Patti	31a9f266eb	Fix: Add treesitter option to use pre-compiled binaries On Windows, when new users install kickstart it blows up by default because having a C compiler in PATH is not a reaonle expectation on hat platform. Also, this should decrease first use startup time substantially on all platforms because curl-ing down a binary is much faster than compiling from scratch. Also updated README as Windows folks are expected to turn on developer mode so symlinks and 'curl' will work.	2024-02-27 15:07:07 -05:00
TJ DeVries	af4fd2355f	fixup: change comment to reflect auto_install	2024-02-26 10:46:31 -05:00
TJ DeVries	1c89b024c8	fixup: add autocommand link for help and description	2024-02-26 10:45:32 -05:00
TJ DeVries	8b5d48a199	rewrite: slimmer, trimmer and more lazy kickstart.nvim (#635 ) We've removed over 1/3 of the code that was in kickstart previously, and more than doubled the amount of comments explaining every line of code (to the best of my ability). kickstart now properly uses many of the lazy.nvim config and loading idioms, which should be really helpful for people moving both to modular configs, as well as extending the kickstart config in one file. Additional features: - Beautiful ascii art - Added some documentation that explains what is an LSP, what is telescope, etc - There is now a `:checkhealth` for kickstart, which checks some basic information and adds useful information for maintainers (for people cloning the repo). - Improved LSP configuration and tool installation, for easier first time startup - Changed init.lua ordering, so that it moves from simple options to complicated config ``` ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language files blank comment code ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lua 1 108 404 298 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ```	2024-02-26 10:03:53 -05:00