Neovim

Neovim is a fork of Vim aiming to improve user experience, plugins, and GUIs.

Installation

Install the neovim package.

Configuration

Transition from vim

Neovim uses $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/nvim instead of ~/.vim as its main configuration directory and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/nvim/init.vim instead of ~/.vimrc as its main configuration file. To use your vim configuration in neovim execute the following commands which will create the appropriate symlinks:

$ mkdir -p ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:=$HOME/.config}
$ ln -s ~/.vim $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/nvim
$ ln -s ~/.vimrc $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/nvim/init.vim

To get more info about the transition run the following command in neovim:

:help nvim-from-vim

See also