diff --git a/home-manager/modules/neovim/config/lua/highlight.lua b/home-manager/modules/neovim/config/lua/highlight.lua
index f3962df..cc130f1 100644
--- a/home-manager/modules/neovim/config/lua/highlight.lua
+++ b/home-manager/modules/neovim/config/lua/highlight.lua
@@ -1,9 +1,58 @@
--- vim: ft=lua
+-- -*- mode: lua; -*- vim: ft=lua
 
 local treesitter = require('nvim-treesitter.configs')
 
 treesitter.setup({
-  ensure_installed = 'maintained',
+  ensure_installed = {
+		'bash',
+		'c',
+		'cmake',
+		'commonlisp',
+		'cpp',
+		'css',
+		'diff',
+		'dockerfile',
+		'eex',
+		'elixir', 
+		'fish',
+		'git_rebase',
+		'gitattributes',
+		'gitignore',
+		'hcl',
+		'heex',
+		'html',
+		'javascript',
+		'jsdoc',
+		'json',
+		'JSON with comments',
+		'jsonnet',
+		'lua', 
+		'make',
+		'markdown',
+		'markdown_inline',
+		'meson',
+		'ninja',
+		'nix',
+		'org',
+		'proto',
+		'racket',
+		'rasi',
+		'regex',
+		'rst',
+		'ruby',
+		'rust',
+		'scheme',
+		'scss',
+		'surface',
+		'svelte',
+		'toml',
+		'tsx',
+		'typescript',
+		'vala',
+		'vim',
+		'yaml',
+		'zig'
+	},
   autopairs = {
     enable = true
   },
diff --git a/home-manager/modules/neovim/default.nix b/home-manager/modules/neovim/default.nix
index 3808a05..b7be793 100644
--- a/home-manager/modules/neovim/default.nix
+++ b/home-manager/modules/neovim/default.nix
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ with lib; let
   cfg = config.eboskma.programs.neovim;
 in
 {
-  options.eboskma.programs.neovim = { enable = mkEnableOption "activate neovim"; };
+  options.eboskma.programs.neovim = { enable = mkEnableOption "neovim"; };
 
   config = mkIf cfg.enable {
     # unfortunately this does properly support a Lua based config
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ in
     #   '';
     # };
 
-    home.packages = with pkgs; [ neovim ];
+    home.packages = with pkgs; [ neovim tree-sitter ];
 
     xdg.configFile.nvim = {
       source = ./config;