Add homescreen dashboard

lua/config/keybinds.lua

@@ -1,2 +1,32 @@
 vim.g.mapleader = " "
 vim.keymap.set("n", "<leader>cd", vim.cmd.Ex)
+vim.keymap.set("n", "<leader>;", ":Dashboard<CR>", { desc = "Return to Dashboard", silent = true })
+vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd("FileType", {
+  pattern = "netrw",
+  callback = function(event)
+    vim.schedule(function()
+      vim.keymap.set("n", "<Esc>", function()
+        vim.cmd("enew")
+        vim.cmd("Dashboard")
+      end, { 
+        buffer = event.buf, 
+        nowait = true,
+        desc = "Return to Dashboard" 
+      })
+    end)
+  end,
+})
+vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd("FileType", {
+  pattern = "netrw",
+  callback = function(event)
+    vim.schedule(function()
+      vim.keymap.set("n", "<leader>;", function()
+        vim.cmd("enew")
+        vim.cmd("Dashboard")
+      end, { 
+        buffer = event.buf, 
+        nowait = true,        desc = "Return to Dashboard" 
+      })
+    end)
+  end,
+})

lua/plugins/dashboard.lua

@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+return {
+  'nvimdev/dashboard-nvim',
+  event = 'VimEnter',
+  opts = function()
+    local logo = [[
+ ███╗   ███╗███████╗ █████╗ ███╗   ██╗███████╗██╗██╗   ██╗██╗███╗   ███╗
+ ████╗ ████║╚══███╔╝██╔══██╗████╗  ██║╚══███╔╝██║██║   ██║██║████╗ ████║
+ ██╔████╔██║  ███╔╝ ███████║██╔██╗ ██║  ███╔╝ ██║██║   ██║██║██╔████╔██║
+ ██║╚██╔╝██║ ███╔╝  ██╔══██║██║╚██╗██║ ███╔╝  ██║╚██╗ ██╔╝██║██║╚██╔╝██║
+ ██║ ╚═╝ ██║███████╗██║  ██║██║ ╚████║███████╗██║ ╚████╔╝ ██║██║ ╚═╝ ██║
+ ╚═╝     ╚═╝╚══════╝╚═╝  ╚═╝╚═╝  ╚═══╝╚══════╝╚═╝  ╚═══╝  ╚═╝╚═╝     ╚═╝
+    ]]
+
+    logo = string.rep("\n", 8) .. logo .. "\n\n"
+
+    local opts = {
+	theme = "doom",
+	config = {
+	    header = vim.split(logo, "\n"),
+	    center = {
+		-- Aligned to Mzansi Vim Essential Keybindings
+		{ icon = "󰉓 ", desc = " File Explorer    ", key = "cd", action = "Explore" },
+		{ icon = " ", desc = " Find Files       ", key = "ff", action = "Telescope find_files" },
+		{ icon = " ", desc = " Live Grep        ", key = "fg", action = "Telescope live_grep" },
+		{ icon = "󰛢 ", desc = " Harpoon Menu     ", key = "e", action = function()
+		    local harpoon = require("harpoon")
+		    harpoon.ui:toggle_quick_menu(harpoon:list())
+		end},
+		{ icon = "󱗘 ", desc = " Harpoon Search   ", key = "fl", action = "Telescope harpoon marks" },
+		{ icon = "󰒲 ", desc = " Lazy Manager     ", key = "z", action = "Lazy" },
+		{ icon = " ", desc = " Help Tags        ", key = "fh", action = "Telescope help_tags" },
+		{ icon = " ", desc = " Quit             ", key = "q", action = "qa" },
+	    },
+	    -- footer = { vim.fn.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S") .. " • Mzansi Vim Kickstart" },
+	    footer = { "Let's Keep Working Hard Mzansi" },
+	},
+    }
+
+    return opts
+  end,
+  dependencies = { { 'nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons' } }
+}