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NEOVIM

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NEOVIM → Vim Fork focused on extensibility and usability

It greatly improves the user experience with a Text Editor and enhances aspects such as Efficiency and Performance

Compared to Vim
  • More Modern
  • More Extensible
  • More Efficient

Therefore, each mode has its own keybinds mapped to a specifics actions →

  • Normal Mode
  • Insert Mode
  • Visual Mode

More information here

Neovim Documentation

Installation

Neovim - Standard Installation

Reference

If Neovim is already installed, It is probably an older version that the one to be installed below

So, just uninstall it →

sudo apt remove -y -- neovim

Access to the Releases to copy the Download Link of the nvim-linux64.tar.gz to wget it or simply proceed as follows →

curl -LO https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/latest/download/nvim-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
sudo rm -rf /opt/nvim
sudo tar -C /opt -xzf nvim-linux-x86_64.tar.gz

Then, add this to the Shell Configuration File → .zshrc

~/.zshrc
export PATH="$PATH:/opt/nvim-linux-x86_64/bin"
export EDITOR="/opt/nvim-linux-x86_64/bin/nvim"

Also execute the above command to apply changes in the current Shell Context or →

source ~/.zshrc

That’s it!

To setup a Neovim Distro, See Here

$ command -V nvim
nvim is /opt/nvim-linux64/bin/nvim
Neovim - Installation From Source

If Neovim is already installed, It is probably an older version that the one to be installed below

So, just uninstall it →

sudo apt remove -y -- neovim
Prerequisites

Reference

sudo apt install -y -- ninja-build gettext cmake unzip curl build-essential
CMake Installation

Reference

This binaries suite is necessary in order to correctly compile from source the neovim project

First, take a look at the releases and download the latest version whose installation is performed by a .sh script

Then, proceed as follows →

mkdir /opt/cmake
cd !$ && wget -O install.sh "https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/releases/download/vX.XX.X/cmake-X.XX.X-linux-x86_64.sh"
chmod 700 install.sh && ./install.sh

Note that the installation is performed on the /opt/cmake directory. So, simply add the previous directory path to the PATH environment parameter

Neovim Installation

Reference I    •    Reference II

git clone https://github.com/neovim/neovim Neovim
cd !$ && make CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo
make install

After this, the neovim binary is installed in the /usr/loca/ directory, so there is no need to modify the PATH environment parameter since the above path is already in it

$ command -V nvim
nvim is /usr/local/nvim

Distributions

To improve even more the Editor Base Experience, just try one of the following distros →


Nvim Cheatsheet

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