Contributing to LunarVim

Welcome to the LunarVim contributing guide. We are excited about the prospect of you joining our community!

There are many opportunities to contributing to the project at any level. Every contribution is highly valued and no contribution is too small.

You do not need to write code to contribute to this project. Documentation, demos, and feature design advancements are a key part of this project's growth.

One of the best ways to begin contributing in a meaningful way is by helping find bugs and filing issues for them.

Getting Started

Backup your ~/.config/nvim
Follow the Installation guide
Link your fork with the repository git remote add upstream https://github.com/ChristianChiarulli/LunarVim.git
That's it ! You can now git fetch upstream and git rebase [-i] upstream/rolling to update your branches with the latest contributions.

Setting up development tools

Install stylua
Copy tools/.stylua.toml into the LunarVim root directory

Some Guidelines

Git Commit Messages

Use the present tense ("Add feature" not "Added feature")
Use the imperative mood ("Move cursor to..." not "Moves cursor to...")
Limit the first line to 72 characters or less
Reference issues and pull requests liberally after the first line

Git Branch Naming

Name your branches meaningfully, ex: (feature|bugfix|hotfix)/what-my-pr-does

Code

All lua code is formatted with Stylua.

Use snake_case
Avoid platform-dependent code

Communication

Members of the community have multiple ways to collaborate on the project. We encourage you to join the community:

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