Neovim

Neovim aims to make Vim easier to maintain for its core developers, as well as make plugin development and various integrations easier. We’ll look at the following:

• Why does Neovim matter?
• How to install and configure Neovim
• Synchronizing Vim and Neovim configuration
• Neovim-specific plugins

I’m not sure if this chapter will make you more productive, but I think Neovim is great for the Vim community and introduces some interesting ideas. Enjoy!

Why make another Vim?

Neovim is a fork of Vim that branched out into its own thing in 2014. Neovim aims to address a few core issues about Vim:

• Working with a 30-year-old code base while maintaining backward compatibility is hard.
• It’s difficult to write certain kinds of plugins, asynchronous operations being a huge culprit (asynchronous support has been added to Vim in version 8.0, sometime after Neovim was forked).
• In fact, writing plugins is difficult overall and...