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+let mapleader =","
+
+if ! filereadable(expand('~/.config/nvim/autoload/plug.vim'))
+    echo "Downloading junegunn/vim-plug to manage plugins..."
+    silent !mkdir -p ~/.config/nvim/autoload/
+    silent !curl "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim" > ~/.config/nvim/autoload/plug.vim
+endif
+
+call plug#begin()
+Plug 'ap/vim-css-color'                 " highlight css colour codes with that color
+Plug 'vim-airline/vim-airline'          " status bar
+Plug 'vim-airline/vim-airline-themes'   " status bar themes
+Plug 'tpope/vim-surround'               " highlight open/close characters like [], {}, ()
+Plug 'edkolev/tmuxline.vim'             " apply vim statusbar theme to tmux
+Plug 'rhysd/vim-grammarous'				" LanguageTool integration
+Plug 'wakatime/vim-wakatime'            " Aggregate editor stats and metrics
+Plug 'rakr/vim-one'                     " Light theme
+Plug 'fatih/vim-go', { 'do': ':GoUpdateBinaries' }
+Plug 'nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter', {'do': ':TSUpdate'}
+call plug#end()
+
+lua <<EOF
+require'nvim-treesitter.configs'.setup {
+  highlight = {
+    enable = true,
+    custom_captures = {
+      -- Highlight the @foo.bar capture group with the "Identifier" highlight group.
+      ["foo.bar"] = "Identifier",
+    },
+    -- Setting this to true will run `:h syntax` and tree-sitter at the same time.
+    -- Set this to `true` if you depend on 'syntax' being enabled (like for indentation).
+    -- Using this option may slow down your editor, and you may see some duplicate highlights.
+    -- Instead of true it can also be a list of languages
+    additional_vim_regex_highlighting = false,
+  },
+}
+EOF
+lua <<EOF
+require'nvim-treesitter.configs'.setup {
+  incremental_selection = {
+    enable = true,
+    keymaps = {
+      init_selection = "gnn",
+      node_incremental = "grn",
+      scope_incremental = "grc",
+      node_decremental = "grm",
+    },
+  },
+}
+EOF
+lua <<EOF
+require'nvim-treesitter.configs'.setup {
+  indent = {
+    enable = true
+  }
+}
+EOF
+
+" LaTeX config
+let g:livepreview_previewer = 'zathura'
+let g:livepreview_use_biber = 1
+
+" Grammorous config
+let g:grammarous#languagetool_cmd = 'java -cp ~/languagetool/languagetool-server.jar org.languagetool.server.HTTPServer --port 8081 --allow-origin "*"'
+syntax enable
+
+{{- if eq .theme_variant "dark"}}
+set background=dark
+packadd! dracula_pro
+let g:dracula_colorterm = 0
+colorscheme dracula_pro
+{{- end }}
+{{- if eq .theme_variant "light"}}
+let g:airline_theme='one'
+let g:one_allow_italics = 1
+set background=light
+colorscheme one
+{{- end }}
+
+if exists("g:neovide")
+    let g:neovide_cursor_antialiasing=v:true
+    let g:neovide_cursor_vfx_mode = "railgun"
+    let g:neovide_cursor_vfx_mode = "ripple"
+endif
+
+" syntastic settings
+set statusline+=%#warningmsg#
+set statusline+=%{SyntasticStatuslineFlag()}
+set statusline+=%*
+let g:syntastic_always_populate_loc_list = 1
+let g:syntastic_auto_loc_list = 1
+let g:syntastic_check_on_open = 1
+let g:syntastic_check_on_wq = 0
+
+""
+" Some basics
+""
+" Make ctags for supported languages
+command! MakeTags !ctags -R .
+" Add all subdirs to working path so :find works well
+set path+=**
+" Status line completion menu
+set wildmenu
+" Set above menu to a vertical instead of horizontal list
+set wildmode=full,list,full
+" Wrap long lines that continue past the viewport
+set linebreak
+" Highlight the column the cursor is on
+set cursorcolumn
+" Highlight the line the cursor is on
+set cursorline
+" Enables more colors
+set termguicolors
+" If there are folds, close some of them on startup
+set foldlevelstart=99
+" Use system clipboard for all yanking/pasting
+set clipboard+=unnamedplus
+" Use tabs but display them as 4 spaces instead of 8
+set ts=4 sts=4 sw=4 expandtab
+" Round the indent to a multiple of sw
+set shiftround
+" Set hidden character characters
+set listchars=tab:▸\ ,eol:¬,nbsp:␣,trail:•,space:.,extends:→,precedes:←
+set backspace=indent,eol,start
+" Keep 12 lines above and below the cursor when scrolling
+set scrolloff=12
+" Disable mouse support
+set mouse=
+" Use indents to determine folds
+set foldmethod=indent
+" Set line numbers relative to current line
+set number nu
+" Show partial commands in the bottom right
+set showcmd
+" Show which mode you're in
+set showmode
+" Display partial matches when searching
+set incsearch
+" Highlight search results—hide with :noh
+set hlsearch
+" Wrap searches around the end of the file
+set wrapscan
+" Tell Vim to be more liberal with creating hidden buffers
+set hidden
+" Case-insensitive search unless term contains uppercase chars
+set smartcase
+
+" Statusbar theme
+let g:airline_powerline_fonts = 1
+let g:airline_theme='bubblegum'
+if !exists('g:airline_symbols')
+	let g:airline_symbols = {}
+endif
+
+" Configure thesaurus
+let g:tq_mthesaur_file="~/.config/nvim/thesaurus/mthesaur.txt"
+let g:tq_enabled_backends=["datamuse_com","mthesaur_txt","openoffice_en"]
+
+""
+" Keybindings
+""
+" Insert timestamp at the end of the line in this format: 20200527T113245
+nnoremap <C-t><C-s> m'A<C-R>=strftime('%Y%m%dT%H%M%S')<CR>
+" Open a new tab
+nnoremap <C-t>t :tabnew<CR>
+" Toggle hidden characters
+nnoremap <C-l> :set list!<CR>
+
+" Window management
+map <C-h> <C-w>h
+map <C-j> <C-w>j
+map <C-k> <C-w>k
+map <C-l> <C-w>l
+
+" Snippets
+nnoremap ,nnm :read $HOME/.config/nvim/snippets/nnmail<CR>2jA
+nnoremap ,sig :read $HOME/.config/nvim/snippets/signature<CR>
+
+" only enable persistent undo if vim supports
+if has('persistent_undo')
+  set undodir=$HOME/.config/nvim/undofile
+  set undofile
+endif
+
+" Only enable autocommands when Vim supports them
+if has("autocmd")
+	" Disables automatic commenting on newline:
+	autocmd FileType * setlocal formatoptions-=c formatoptions-=r formatoptions-=o
+
+	""
+	" File-specific indentation settings
+	""
+	autocmd FileType make setlocal ts=8 sts=8 sw=8 noexpandtab
+	autocmd FileType yaml setlocal ts=2 sts=2 sw=2 expandtab
+
+	""
+	" Email configuration
+	""
+	" Spellcheck in British English
+	autocmd FileType eml setlocal spell spelllang=en_gb
+	" Set lines to hard wrap at 72 chars
+	autocmd FileType eml set tw=72
+
+	""
+	" Markdown Configuration
+	""
+	" Treat all .md files as markdown
+	autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.md set filetype=markdown
+	" Spellcheck in British English
+	autocmd FileType markdown setlocal spell spelllang=en_gb
+
+	""
+	" Working with LaTeX
+	""
+	" Reduce udpatetime for faster previews
+    autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.tex setfiletype tex
+    autocmd FileType tex set ut=250
+    autocmd FileType tex set colorcolumn=72
+
+endif