Neovim

Neovim is Article description::a hyperextensible [[Vim-based text editor.]]

Plugin manager
A plugin manager allows installation of plugins to Neovim editor to make it function according to user preference.

Vim plug
This is a plugin manager made both for Vim and Neovim. Here is the GitHub page: vim-plug. Read the GitHub page for any issues encountered.

Read more about it in github.com/junegunn/vim-plug

Install
To install it for Neovim do the following:

Or for flatpak:

Configuration
To configure you must read the vim-plug/wiki/tutorial

Here is a sample config

Vim Pathogen
Read more about Vim Pathogen over at github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen

Install
To install it, you can do

Configuration
To learn more about configuration for Vim Pathogen, read their github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen's README.md

Here is a sample config given

This is a super minimal config, that can get you starting.

Environment variables
Important environment variables include:


 * VIMRUNTIME - Used to locate runtime files (documentation, syntax highlighting, etc.).
 * VIMINIT - Ex commands to be executed at startup. Run

A full list of environment variables can be found under the environment section of.

Files
Neovim honors XDG base directories. Therefore the configuration directories are defined by XDG_CONFIG_HOME (defaults to ) or XDG_CONFIG_DIRS (defaults to ) variables.


 * - User-local Neovim configuration directory
 * - User-local Neovim configuration file
 * - System-global Neovim configuration file

For example, customize Neovim for a specific user by editing the:

This particular example activates line numbers on the left-hand side of the editor, sets relative numbers, and changes the tab width.

Tutorial
Neovim has a built-in tutorial. Learn basic nvim usage interactive with the :

No colors when running through screen/tmux
See: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/FAQ#home-or-some-other-special-key-doesnt-work

Needs Python
This is an issue that occurs when a plugin (such as the vim-latex-live-preview) requires Python to execute its function. To resolve this issue, try to build Neovim with the correct USE flag, for example by adding a line to a package.use file:

Then rebuild the package:

No syntax highlighting on Gentoo configuration files
Unfortunately, has no native support for Neovim yet. Thus, Gentoo configuration files (e.g. most files under ) don't have specialized syntax highlighting and the editor doesn't initialize the buffer for new Gentoo files (e.g. new ebuilds, new init scripts) with a skeleton.

Since Neovim is compatible with Vim configuration, the directory, where the system wide installed Vim plugins reside, can be added to the Neovim runtime path in :

However, this is just a workaround with the side effect that all other plugins which are installed for Vim system wide are now enabled in Neovim as well.

Want to contribute
Neovim is a community fork of Vim. Contribute here: Github: Neovim