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Mastering Vim

You're reading from   Mastering Vim Build a software development environment with Vim and Neovim

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789341096
Length 330 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ruslan Osipov Ruslan Osipov
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 2. Advanced Editing and Navigation 3. Follow the Leader - Plugin Management 4. Understanding the Text 5. Build, Test, and Execute 6. Refactoring Code with Regex and Macros 7. Making Vim Your Own 8. Transcending the Mundane with Vimscript 9. Neovim 10. Where to Go from Here 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Installing and configuring Neovim

Neovim and its installation instructions are available from GitHub at https://github.com/neovim/neovim. You can either download the binary, or install it through one of the package managers. The installation instructions are rather detailed, and may change rather quickly, so you should give them a read at https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Installing-Neovim.
If you are working on Debian based Linux distribution, you can install Neovim by running: $ sudo apt-get install neovim and $ Python3 -m pip install neovim to add Python3 to support neovim.

Once you install Neovim, it's available through the nvim command:

$ nvim

You're greeted by a screen similar to a vanilla Vim intro screen:

All of the commands familiar to you from Vim will work, and Neovim uses the same configuration format as Vim. However, your .vimrc is not picked up automatically...

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