Neovim

Neovim¶

Neovim is a fork of Vim that improves the extensibility and maintainability of Vim. It is not a fundamentally different editor, rather it was the next step along the editor history. It is an enhanced out-of-the-box version of the Vim text editor, or you can say, it is a more simplified Vim which makes integrations much easier than with Vim.

Users who are just getting started, the Vim and Neovim is not that apparent and are basically identical.

Installation¶

neovim needs to be manually installed using respective Package Manager of the distro. For Ubuntu/Debian based distros,

sudo apt install neovim

Usage¶

The usage for neovim is same as Vim. In order to edit a file in neovim open a Terminal and type

nvim fileName

All the similar commands from vim is used in neovim as well. To make things familiar to vi or vim one can Set An Alias for neovim to something like vim or vi