building a nvim config from scratch again (vim config felt bloated once again)

init.vim

" Plugins
call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')

" Better js hightlight
Plug 'pangloss/vim-javascript', { 'branch': 'es6-refactor', 'for': 'javascript' }
" Oceanic next color scheme
Plug 'mhartington/oceanic-next'
" Ctrl-P to find files like in sublime
Plug 'kien/ctrlp.vim'
" Airline, the better status line
Plug 'bling/vim-airline'

call plug#end()

" Syntax enabled
syntax enable

" Color scheme
let $NVIM_TUI_ENABLE_TRUE_COLOR=1
colorscheme OceanicNext
set background=dark

" Line numbers (on the left side)
set number

" Matching brackets
set showmatch

" Line and column numbers in status line
set ruler

" Start scrolling before reaching the end (horizontal and vertical)
set scrolloff=5
set sidescrolloff=5

" Insert spaces instead of tab characters
set expandtab
" Length of one tab in spaces
set tabstop=2
" Indention amount for < and > commands
set shiftwidth=2

" Display trailing and other possible dangerous whitespaces or special characters
set listchars=tab:»\ ,trail:~,extends:>,precedes:<,nbsp:+
set list
" This is excessive mode for whitespace highlighting, useful for debugging
"set listchars=eol:¬,tab:»·,trail:~,extends:>,precedes:<,space:␣

" Highlight trailing whitespaces with a red background in addition
highlight ExtraWhitespace ctermbg=darkred guibg=darkred
match ExtraWhitespace /\s\+$\|\t/

" Airline
let g:airline_left_sep=''  " Slightly fancier than '>'
let g:airline_right_sep='' " Slightly fancier than '<'
let g:airline_theme='oceanicnext'

Inspiration, references and things to look at

• https://github.com/adibis/nvim/blob/master/init.vim
• https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug
• https://github.com/mhartington/oceanic-next
• https://github.com/morhetz/gruvbox