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

Modal Editor

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

• Normal Mode
  
• Insert Mode
  
• Visual Mode

More information here

Neovim Documentation

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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

IMPORTANT

Be aware that the path where the cmake installation was performed must be set before the standard cmake path in the PATH env parameter in order to use the installed cmake version

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

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Distributions

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

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  • NVCHAD

Nvim Cheatsheet