goodies.nvim

December 11, 2025 · View on GitHub

Tiny, tasty, and too useful to leave in your config. A small collection of Lua utilities and commands for Neovim — not big enough for their own plugin, but too handy to ignore.

✨ Overview

This plugin bundles several lightweight but practical functions that improve everyday Neovim usage. Each function is self-contained, designed to be mapped to a keybinding, and focuses on quality-of-life enhancements — things that make editing faster, cleaner, or more delightful.

🧠 Why?

Your Neovim config can easily get cluttered with one-off helpers, commands, or scripts. goodies.nvim is the middle ground — a comfy home for those neat ideas that don’t quite deserve their own repository.

⚙️ Features

🧾 Comment Utilities

M.comment_hr() Inserts a horizontal “commented” line that matches the file’s comment syntax and indentation. Great for visually separating sections in your code or notes.

🚀 Code Execution

M.code_runner() Detects the filetype and runs it using the appropriate command (e.g. python %, gcc %, node %, etc.). Prompts you to choose between multiple run modes (e.g., default, debug, competitive).
M.run_file(ht) Quick command to compile or execute the current file in a terminal split (horizontal or vertical). Example: runs cargo run for Rust, python % for Python, or make for C/C++.

🌐 URL Helpers

M.open_url() Opens the URL under the cursor in your system’s default browser. Works with common formats like https://example.com.
M.open_in_browser(url) Utility function to open a specific URL using xdg-open, explorer, open, or wslview.
M.open_at_regex_101() Detects and extracts regex patterns in supported languages and opens them in regex101.com prefilled for quick testing.

🧑‍💻 Author Metadata

M.add_author_details() Inserts a standard comment header at the top of the file, including:

Author name
Email
GitHub
Twitter
Date (auto-generated)

Example:

require("goodies").add_author_details()

Produces:

-- Author: Rubin Bhandari <roobin.bhandari@gmail.com>
-- Date: 2024-05-23
-- GitHub: https://github.com/rubiin
-- Twitter: https://twitter.com/RubinCodes

Misc

M.word_count() Utility function to count the number of words in the current buffer or visual selection.
M.auto_normal() Enable this somewhere in your config or add a keymap to activate it. Automatically exit insert mode after a period of inactivity.
M.put_at_end(s) Enable this somewhere in your config or add a keymap to activate it. Inserts s at end of current line without moving cursor. @param s string the string to append

🔑 Suggested Keymaps

Add something like this to your init.lua or keymaps.lua:

local goodies = require("goodies")

vim.keymap.set("n", "<leader>ch", goodies.comment_hr, { desc = "Insert comment HR" })
vim.keymap.set("n", "<leader>ru", goodies.code_runner, { desc = "Run current file" })
vim.keymap.set("n", "gx", goodies.open_url, { desc = "Open URL under cursor" })
vim.keymap.set("n", "<leader>yy",goodies.add_author_details, { desc = "Add author details" })
vim.keymap.set("n", "<leader>zz", function()
    goodies.append_to_eol(",")
end, { desc = "Put , at end of line" })

🧩 Installation

With lazy.nvim:

{
  "rubiin/goodies.nvim",
  opts = {
	author = {
		name = "John Doe",
		email = "john.doe@example.com",
		github = "johndoe",
		twitter = "DoeTweets",
	}
  }
}

Alternative Installers

packer.nvim

If you use packer.nvim you can add the plugin with a use call. You may choose to lazy-load it with cmd, ft, event, etc. Example:

use {
  "rubiin/goodies.nvim",
  -- lazy-load options (optional): cmd = {"SomeCommand"}, ft = {"lua"}, event = "BufReadPre"
  event = "VeryLazy",
  config = function()
    require("goodies").setup({
      author = {
        name = "Your Name",
        email = "your.email@example.com",
        github = "yourusername",
        twitter = "yourhandle",
      },
      auto_normal = { timeout = 3000 },
    })
  end,
}

vim-plug

For vim-plug add the plugin in your init.vim and call the Lua setup from your init.lua or an after/plugin file. Example:

Plug 'rubiin/goodies.nvim'

Then in Lua (e.g. after/plugin/goodies.lua or init.lua):

require("goodies").setup({
  author = {
    name = "Your Name",
    email = "your.email@example.com",
    github = "yourusername",
    twitter = "yourhandle",
  },
  auto_normal = { timeout = 3000 },
})

🧃 Supported Filetypes (for Code Runner)

c, cpp, cs, go, java, js, ts, py, rs, php, r, jl, rb, pl, html

Each filetype can have multiple run modes like default, debug, or competitive.