Как установить neovim на windows

You can install Neovim from download, package, or source in just a few seconds.

• To start Neovim, run nvim (not neovim).
  • Discover plugins.
• Before upgrading to a new version, check Following HEAD.
• For config (vimrc) see the FAQ.

Install from download

Downloads are available on the Releases page.

• Latest stable release
  • macOS
  • Linux
  • Windows
• Latest development prerelease

Install from package

Packages are listed below. (You can also build Neovim from source.)

Windows

Windows 8+ is required. Windows 7 or older is not supported.

Winget

• Release: winget install Neovim.Neovim

Chocolatey

• Release (v0.7): choco install neovim (use -y for automatically skipping confirmation messages)
• Development (pre-release): choco install neovim --pre

Scoop

scoop bucket add main
scoop install neovim

• Release: scoop install neovim

Several Neovim GUIs are available from scoop (extras): scoop.sh/#/apps?q=neovim

Pre-built archives

1. If you are missing VCRUNTIME140.dll, install the Visual Studio 2015 C++ redistributable (choose x86_64 or x86 depending on your system).
2. Choose a package (nvim-winXX.zip) from the releases page.
3. Unzip the package. Any location is fine, administrator privileges are not required.
   • $VIMRUNTIME will be set to that location automatically.
4. Double-click nvim-qt.exe.

Optional steps:

• Add the bin folder (e.g. C:\Program Files\nvim\bin) to your PATH.
  • This makes it easy to run nvim and nvim-qt from anywhere.
• If :set spell does not work, create the C:/Users/foo/AppData/Local/nvim/site/spell folder.
  You can then copy your spell files over (for English, located
  here and
  here);
• For Python plugins you need the pynvim module. «Virtual envs» are recommended. After activating the virtual env do pip install pynvim (in both). Edit your init.vim so that it contains the path to the env’s Python executable:

  let g:python3_host_prog='C:/Users/foo/Envs/neovim3/Scripts/python.exe'

  • Run :checkhealth and read :help provider-python.
• init.vim («vimrc»): If you already have Vim installed you can copy %userprofile%\_vimrc to %userprofile%\AppData\Local\nvim\init.vim to use your Vim config with Neovim.

macOS / OS X

Pre-built archives

The Releases page provides pre-built binaries for macOS 10.15+.

curl -LO https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/download/nightly/nvim-macos.tar.gz
tar xzf nvim-macos.tar.gz
./nvim-macos/bin/nvim

Homebrew on macOS or Linux

MacPorts

sudo port selfupdate
sudo port install neovim

Linux

AppImage («universal» Linux package)

The Releases page provides an AppImage that runs on most Linux systems. No installation is needed, just download nvim.appimage and run it. (It might not work if your Linux distribution is more than 4 years old.)

curl -LO https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/latest/download/nvim.appimage
chmod u+x nvim.appimage
./nvim.appimage

If the ./nvim.appimage command fails, try:

./nvim.appimage --appimage-extract
./squashfs-root/AppRun --version

# Optional: exposing nvim globally.
sudo mv squashfs-root /
sudo ln -s /squashfs-root/AppRun /usr/bin/nvim
nvim

Arch Linux

Neovim can be installed from the community repository:

Alternatively, Neovim can be also installed using the PKGBUILD neovim-git, available on the AUR.

Alternatively, Neovim Nightly builds can be also installed using the PKGBUILD neovim-nightly-bin, available on the AUR.

The Python module is available from the community repository:

sudo pacman -S python-pynvim

Ruby modules (currently only supported in neovim-git) are available from the AUR as ruby-neovim.

CentOS 8 / RHEL 8

Neovim is available through EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux)

yum install -y https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
yum install -y neovim python3-neovim

Clear Linux OS

Neovim is available through the neovim bundle

sudo swupd bundle-add neovim

Python (:python) support is available if the python-basic bundle is installed.

sudo swupd bundle-add python-basic

Debian

Neovim is in the default Debian repositories, but the version may be too old.
Consider using a more recent version with e.g. appImage, flatpack or the PPA repository.

Neovim is in Debian.

sudo apt-get install neovim

Python (:python) support is installable via the package manager on Debian unstable.

sudo apt-get install python3-neovim

If installing via appimage, the following commands may be helpful in updating default paths:

# CUSTOM_NVIM_PATH=/usr/local/bin/nvim.appimage
# Set the above with the correct path, then run the rest of the commands:
set -u
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/ex ex "${CUSTOM_NVIM_PATH}" 110
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/vi vi "${CUSTOM_NVIM_PATH}" 110
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/view view "${CUSTOM_NVIM_PATH}" 110
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/vim vim "${CUSTOM_NVIM_PATH}" 110
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/vimdiff vimdiff "${CUSTOM_NVIM_PATH}" 110

Exherbo Linux

Exhereses for scm and released versions are currently available in repository ::medvid. Python client (with GTK+ GUI included) and Qt5 GUI are also available as suggestions:

cave resolve app-editors/neovim --take dev-python/neovim-python --take app-editors/neovim-qt

Fedora

Neovim is in Fedora starting with Fedora 25:

sudo dnf install -y neovim python3-neovim

You can also get nightly builds of git master from the Copr automated build system:

dnf copr enable agriffis/neovim-nightly
dnf install -y neovim python3-neovim

See the blog post for information on how these are built.

Flatpak

You can find Neovim on Flathub. Providing you have Flatpak set up:

flatpak install flathub io.neovim.nvim
flatpak run io.neovim.nvim

You can add /var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin (or ~/.local/share/flatpak/exports/bin if you used --user) to the $PATH and run it with io.neovim.nvim.

Note that Flatpak’ed Neovim will look for init.vim in ~/.var/app/io.neovim.nvim/config/nvim instead of ~/.config/nvim.

Gentoo Linux

An ebuild is available in Gentoo’s official portage repository:

emerge -a app-editors/neovim

GNU Guix

Neovim can be installed with:

GoboLinux

Neovim can be installed with:

Nix / NixOS

Neovim can be installed with:

nix-env -iA nixpkgs.neovim

Mageia 7

To install the Python modules:

makedeb Package Repository (MPR)

Neovim is available inside the MPR. You can install it with:

git clone https://mpr.makedeb.org/neovim
cd neovim/
makedeb -si

OpenSUSE

Neovim can be installed with:

To install the Python modules:

sudo zypper in python-neovim python3-neovim

PLD Linux

Neovim is in PLD Linux:

poldek -u neovim
poldek -u python-neovim python3-neovim
poldek -u python-neovim-gui python3-neovim-gui

Slackware

See neovim on SlackBuilds.

For instructions on how to install the Python modules, see :help provider-python.

Source Mage

Neovim can be installed using the Sorcery package manager:

Solus

Neovim can be installed using the default package manager in Solus (eopkg):

sudo eopkg install neovim

Snap

Neovim nightly and stable are available on the snap store.

Stable Builds

sudo snap install --beta nvim --classic

Nightly Builds

sudo snap install --edge nvim --classic

Ubuntu

As in Debian, Neovim is in Ubuntu.

Python (:python) support seems to be automatically installed

sudo apt install python3-neovim

Neovim has been added to a «Personal Package Archive» (PPA). This allows you to install it with apt-get. Follow the links to the PPAs to see which versions of Ubuntu are currently available via the PPA. Choose stable or unstable:

• https://launchpad.net/~neovim-ppa/+archive/ubuntu/stable
• https://launchpad.net/~neovim-ppa/+archive/ubuntu/unstable

Important: The Neovim team does not maintain the PPA packages. For problems or questions about the PPA specifically contact https://launchpad.net/~neovim-ppa.

To be able to use add-apt-repository you may need to install software-properties-common:

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common

If you’re using an older version Ubuntu you must use:

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties

Run the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:neovim-ppa/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install neovim

Prerequisites for the Python modules:

sudo apt-get install python-dev python-pip python3-dev python3-pip

If you’re using an older version Ubuntu you must use:

sudo apt-get install python-dev python-pip python3-dev
sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools
sudo easy_install3 pip

For instructions to install the Python modules, see :help provider-python.

If you want to use Neovim for some (or all) of the editor alternatives, use the following commands:

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/vi vi /usr/bin/nvim 60
sudo update-alternatives --config vi
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/vim vim /usr/bin/nvim 60
sudo update-alternatives --config vim
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/editor editor /usr/bin/nvim 60
sudo update-alternatives --config editor

Note, however, that special interfaces, like view for nvim -R, are not supported. (See #1646 and #2008.)

Void-Linux

Neovim can be installed using the xbps package manager

sudo xbps-install -S neovim

Alpine Linux

Neovim can be installed using the apk package manager

BSD

FreeBSD

Neovim can be installed using pkg(8):

or from the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/editors/neovim/ && make install clean

To install the pynvim Python modules using pkg(8) run:

OpenBSD

Neovim can be installed using pkg_add(1):

or from the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/editors/neovim/ && make install

Android

Termux on the Google Play store offers a Neovim package.

Install from source

If a package is not provided for your platform, you can build Neovim from source. See Building-Neovim for details. If you have the prerequisites then building is easy:

make CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
sudo make install

For Unix-like systems this installs Neovim to /usr/local, while for Windows to C:\Program Files. Note, however, that this can complicate uninstallation. The following example avoids this by isolating an installation under $HOME/neovim:

rm -r build/  # clear the CMake cache
make CMAKE_EXTRA_FLAGS="-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/neovim"
make install
export PATH="$HOME/neovim/bin:$PATH"

Uninstall

There is a CMake target to uninstall after make install:

sudo cmake --build build/ --target uninstall

Alternatively, just delete the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX artifacts:

sudo rm /usr/local/bin/nvim
sudo rm -r /usr/local/share/nvim/

Nvim :help pages, generated
from source
using the tree-sitter-vimdoc parser.

Nvim reference

Introduction intro

Vim is a text editor which includes most commands from the Unix program «Vi»
and many new ones.

An overview of this manual can be found in the file «help.txt», help.txt.
It can be accessed from within Vim with the <Help> or <F1> key and with the
:help command (just type «:help», without the bars or quotes).
The ‘helpfile’ option can be set to the name of the help file, in case it
is not located in the default place. You can jump to subjects like with tags:
Use CTRL-] to jump to a subject under the cursor, use CTRL-T to jump back.

pronounce
Vim is pronounced as one word, like Jim. So Nvim is «En-Vim», two syllables.

This manual is a reference for all Nvim editor and API features. It is not an
introduction; instead for beginners, there is a hands-on tutor, lua-guide,
and user-manual.

Resources resources

internet www distribution
Nvim home page:

book
There are many resources to learn Vi, Vim, and Nvim. We recommend:

bugs bug-report feature-request
Report bugs and request features here: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues
Be brief, yet complete. Always give a reproducible example and try to find
out which settings or other things trigger the bug. If Nvim crashed, try to
get a backtrace (see dev-tools-backtrace).

Installing Nvim install

Un-installing Nvim uninstall

/usr/local/bin/nvim
/usr/local/share/nvim

:echo v:progpath
:echo $VIMRUNTIME

Fixing bugs and adding new features takes a lot of time and effort. To show
your appreciation for the work and motivate developers to continue working on
Vim please send a donation.

The money you donated will be mainly used to help children in Uganda. See
uganda. But at the same time donations increase the development team
motivation to keep working on Vim!

For the most recent information about sponsoring look on the Vim web site:

Nvim development is funded separately from Vim:

Bram Moolenaar Bram Moolenaar Bram-Moolenaar brammool

Nvim is a fork of the Vim («Vi IMproved») text editor, which was originally
developed by Bram Moolenaar. Searching his name within the source code of
Nvim will reveal just how much of his work still remains in Nvim.
On August 3, 2023, he passed away at the age of 62. If Vim or Nvim have been
of use to you in your life, please read Uganda and consider honoring his
memory however you may see fit.

Notation notation

When syntax highlighting is used to read this, text that is not typed
literally is often highlighted with the Special group. These are items in [],
{} and <>, and CTRL-X.

Note that Vim uses all possible characters in commands. Sometimes the [], {}
and <> are part of what you type, the context should make this clear.

key-notation key-codes keycodes
These names for keys are used in the documentation. They can also be used
with the «:map» command.

<EOL> end-of-line (can be <CR>, <NL> or <CR><NL>,
depends on system and ‘fileformat’) <EOL>
<Ignore> cancel wait-for-character <Ignore>
<NOP> no-op: do nothing (useful in mappings) <Nop>

<Up> cursor-up cursor-up cursor_up
<Down> cursor-down cursor-down cursor_down
<Left> cursor-left cursor-left cursor_left
<Right> cursor-right cursor-right cursor_right
<S-Up> shift-cursor-up
<S-Down> shift-cursor-down
<S-Left> shift-cursor-left
<S-Right> shift-cursor-right
<C-Left> control-cursor-left
<C-Right> control-cursor-right
<F1> — <F12> function keys 1 to 12 function_key function-key
<S-F1> — <S-F12> shift-function keys 1 to 12 <S-F1>
<Help> help key
<Undo> undo key
<Find> find key
<Select> select key
<Insert> insert key
<Home> home home
<End> end end
<PageUp> page-up page_up page-up
<PageDown> page-down page_down page-down
<kUp> keypad cursor-up keypad-cursor-up
<kDown> keypad cursor-down keypad-cursor-down
<kLeft> keypad cursor-left keypad-cursor-left
<kRight> keypad cursor-right keypad-cursor-right
<kHome> keypad home (upper left) keypad-home
<kEnd> keypad end (lower left) keypad-end
<kOrigin> keypad origin (middle) keypad-origin
<kPageUp> keypad page-up (upper right) keypad-page-up
<kPageDown> keypad page-down (lower right) keypad-page-down
<kDel> keypad delete keypad-delete
<kPlus> keypad + keypad-plus
<kMinus> keypad — keypad-minus
<kMultiply> keypad * keypad-multiply
<kDivide> keypad / keypad-divide
<kPoint> keypad . keypad-point
<kComma> keypad , keypad-comma
<kEqual> keypad = keypad-equal
<kEnter> keypad Enter keypad-enter
<k0> — <k9> keypad 0 to 9 keypad-0 keypad-9
<S-…> shift-key shift <S-
<C-…> control-key control ctrl <C-
<M-…> alt-key or meta-key META ALT <M-
<A-…> same as <M-…> <A-
<T-…> meta-key when it’s not alt <T-
<D-…> command-key or «super» key <D-

Note:

The <> notation uses <lt> to escape the special meaning of key names. Using a
backslash also works, but only when ‘cpoptions’ does not include the ‘B’ flag.

:imap <C-H> \<Home>
:imap <C-H> <lt>Home>

:map <C-L> <lt>lt>

Modes, introduction vim-modes-intro vim-modes

Vim has seven BASIC modes:

There are six ADDITIONAL modes. These are variants of the BASIC modes:

Switching from mode to mode mode-switching

If for any reason you do not know which mode you are in, you can always get
back to Normal mode by typing <Esc> twice. This doesn’t work for Ex mode
though, use «:visual».
You will know you are back in Normal mode when you see the screen flash or
hear the bell after you type <Esc>. However, when pressing <Esc> after using
CTRL-O in Insert mode you get a beep but you are still in Insert mode, type
<Esc> again.

FROM mode      TO mode
               Normal  Visual  Select  Insert    Replace   Cmd-line  Ex >
Normal                 v V ^V    *4     *1        R gR     : / ? !   gQ
Visual          *2               ^G     c C        --        :       --
Select          *5     ^O ^G            *6         --        --      --
Insert          <Esc>    --      --              <Insert>    --      --
Replace         <Esc>    --      --    <Insert>              --      --
Command-line    *3       --      --     :start     --                --
Ex              :vi      --      --     --         --        --
-- not possible

CTRL-\_CTRL-N i_CTRL-\_CTRL-N c_CTRL-\_CTRL-N
v_CTRL-\_CTRL-N t_CTRL-\_CTRL-N
Additionally the command CTRL-\ CTRL-N or <C-\><C-N> can be used to go to
Normal mode from any other mode. This can be used to make sure Vim is in
Normal mode, without causing a beep like <Esc> would. However, this does not
work in Ex mode. When used after a command that takes an argument, such as
f or m, the timeout set with ‘ttimeoutlen’ applies.

CTRL-\_CTRL-G i_CTRL-\_CTRL-G c_CTRL-\_CTRL-G v_CTRL-\_CTRL-G
CTRL-\ CTRL-G works the same as CTRL-\_CTRL-N for backward compatibility.

Window contents window-contents

Lines longer than the window width will wrap, unless the ‘wrap’ option is off
(see below). The ‘linebreak’ option can be set to wrap at a blank character.

+-----------------------+
|some line              |
|last line              |
|~                      |
|~                      |
+-----------------------+

Thus the ‘~’ lines indicate that the end of the buffer was reached.

+-----------------------+
|first line             |
|second line            |
|@                      |
|@                      |
+-----------------------+

Thus the ‘@’ lines indicate that there is a line that doesn’t fit in the
window.

+-----------------------+
|first line             |
|second line            |
|a very long line that d|
|oesn't fit in the wi@@@|
+-----------------------+

If there is a single line that is too long to fit in the window, this is a
special situation. Vim will show only part of the line, around where the
cursor is. There are no special characters shown, so that you can edit all
parts of this line.

The hl-NonText highlight group can be used to set special highlighting
for the ‘@’ and ‘~’ characters. This makes it possible to distinguish them
from real characters in the buffer.

The ‘showbreak’ option contains the string to put in front of wrapped lines.

wrap-off
If the ‘wrap’ option is off, long lines will not wrap. Only the part that
fits on the screen is shown. If the cursor is moved to a part of the line
that is not shown, the screen is scrolled horizontally. The advantage of
this method is that columns are shown as they are and lines that cannot fit
on the screen can be edited. The disadvantage is that you cannot see all the
characters of a line at once. The ‘sidescroll’ option can be set to the
minimal number of columns to scroll.

All normal ASCII characters are displayed directly on the screen. The <Tab>
is replaced with the number of spaces that it represents. Other non-printing
characters are replaced with «^{char}», where {char} is the non-printing
character with 64 added. Thus character 7 (bell) will be shown as «^G».
Characters between 127 and 160 are replaced with «~{char}», where {char} is
the character with 64 subtracted. These characters occupy more than one
position on the screen. The cursor can only be positioned on the first one.

":set showbreak=\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ "

In Command-line mode only the command-line itself is shown correctly. The
display of the buffer contents is updated as soon as you go back to Command
mode.

status message                option       default    Unix default
current mode                  'showmode'      on          on
command characters            'showcmd'       on          off
cursor position               'ruler'         off         off

:set nosc noru nosm

Some commands show how many lines were affected. Above which threshold this
happens can be controlled with the ‘report’ option (default 2).

The name Vim and the full name of the current file name will be shown in the
title bar. When the window is resized, Vim will automatically redraw the
window. You may make the window as small as you like, but if it gets too
small not a single line will fit in it. Make it at least 40 characters wide
to be able to read most messages on the last line.

Definitions definitions jargon

       +-------------------------------+
screen | window 1      | window 2      |
       |               |               |
       |               |               |
       |= status line =|= status line =|
       | window 3                      |
       |                               |
       |                               |
       |==== status line ==============|
       |command line                   |
       +-------------------------------+

The command line is also used for messages. It scrolls up the screen when
there is not enough room in the command line.

A difference is made between four types of lines:

buffer lines    logical lines   window lines    screen lines
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
1. one          1. one          1. +-- folded   1.  +-- folded
2. two          2. +-- folded   2. five         2.  five
3. three        3. five         3. six          3.  six
4. four         4. six          4. seven        4.  seven
5. five         5. seven                        5.  === status line ===
6. six                                          6.  aaa
7. seven                                        7.  bbb
                                                8.  ccc ccc c
1. aaa          1. aaa          1. aaa          9.  cc
2. bbb          2. bbb          2. bbb          10. ddd
3. ccc ccc ccc  3. ccc ccc ccc  3. ccc ccc c    11. ~
4. ddd          4. ddd          4. cc           12. === status line ===
                                5. ddd          13. (command line)
                                6. ~

Fast and reliable, Neovim (Nvim) is an excellent choice for those looking to make the switch from Vim. Compatible with most Vim plugins, including Ruby and Python plugins, Neovim seeks to refactor Vim aggressively.

In this tutorial, you will learn many ways to install Neovim on Windows and see how this powerful tool works.

Ready? Stay tuned and make your scripting more enjoyable with Neovim!

Prerequisites

This tutorial comprises hands-on demonstrations. To follow along, ensure you have the following in place:

• A computer running Windows 7 or later – This tutorial uses Windows 10.

• Chocolatey (Windows package manager) installed.

• A code editor – This tutorial uses Visual Studio Code (VS Code).

• You have Git installed on the system.

Installing Neovim via MSI

Even though Neovim is a cross-platform tool, it is not installed by default on your Windows system. The most recommended way to install on Windows is through its official release page on GitHub.

To download and install via MSI:

1. Open your favorite web browser, and visit the Neovim GitHub release page.

2. Next, scroll down to the Assets section, expand it, and click the nvim-win64.msi link to download the installer.

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3. Once downloaded, double-click on the installer to launch the setup wizard.

4. Now, click Next on the welcome screen to continue.

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5. On the next screen, tick the checkbox at the bottom to agree to the End-User License Agreement (EULA), and click Next.

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6. Next, click Change to choose a destination to install or keep the default, and click Next.

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7. Click Install to start the installation process.

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8. Click Finish once the installation completes, closing the setup wizard.

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9. Lastly, open PowerShell as administrator and run the nvim command below to check the version installed on your computer.

The output below shows the installed Neovim version, which confirms that it has been successfully installed.

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Installing Nvim Using Chocolatey

Installing Nvim with the MSI package works fine but completing the installation takes too much clicking. If you primarily work on a command-line environment, installing via chocolatey is also an option.

Chocolatey is a package manager for Windows that lets you quickly install software like Neovim. This package manager is similar apt on Linux or Homebrew on macOS.

Run the below choco command to install (neovim) and all dependencies required to run the tool.

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Once the installation completes, run the following nvim command to check the installed version (-v) of Neovim on your computer.

Below, you can see its version number and other information, which verifies the successful installation.

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Installing Nvim Using Winget

Another tool you can use to install Neovim on Windows is Winget, a package manager for Windows created by Microsoft. Even though Winget is still in development, this tool is stable enough for everyday use.

To install using Winget, follow the steps below:

1. Run the below winget command to search for the nvim package.

Below, the first result is the latest stable release of Neovim, and the second is the latest nightly build. A nightly build is a version that contains the latest changes and features. This build is updated every day and is considered to be less stable than the latest stable release.

Take note of the version ID to install. In this example, you will install the latest stable release with an Id of Neovim.Neovim.

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2. Next, run the below winget install command to install the latest stable version (Neovim.Neovim).

winget install Neovim.Neovim

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3. Finally, run the command to verify the installation.

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Installing Nvim Using Scoop

Scoop is another package manager for Windows, similar to Chocolatey and Winget.

To install using Scoop:

1. Run the below scoop command to add the extras bucket.

A bucket in Scoop is a collection of packages, and the extras bucket contains packages that are not in the main buckets, including neovim-qt.

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2. Next, run the below command to install the Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime (vcredist2022), a requirement for running Neovim.

scoop install vcredist2022

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3. Once installed, run the below command to install the following:

• neovim – Neovim’s latest stable release.
• neovim-qt – A GUI for Neovim based on Qt, a cross-platform application framework.

# Install Nvim
scoop install neovim
# Install Nvim's GUI
scoop install neovim-qt

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4. Finally, run the nvim command below to open.

The output below verifies that it has been successfully installed on your machine.

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Opening Nvim to Edit Texts

Regardless of which method you used to install Nvim, you still have to test if the tool actually works.

To see Neovim in action, you will edit and save a text file:

1. Run the below command to open if you have already closed Neovim.

2. Next, run the :pwd command below to see your working directory. The colon (:) is the Nvim command character. Anything you type after the colon is interpreted as a Neovim command.

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At the bottom of the PowerShell console, you will see something similar to the one below.

3. Run the below command to edit (:e) a text file, replacing nvim.txt with the name of any text file you want to edit.

4. Now, press the letter ‘I’ to enter the insert mode and type in something like Hello nvim.

5. Press ESC and run the :x command, which does not provide output but saves the changes and closes the file.

6. Lastly, navigate to the current directory(C:\Users\ata) in File Explorer and open the file in Notepad to see your changes to the text file, like in the screenshot below.

Configuring the vim-plug

The installation would not be complete without configuring the vim-plug, a plugin manager for Vim and Neovim. Plugin managers ease the process of installing, updating, and removing plugins. And the vim-plug is one of the most popular plugin managers for Vim.

Run the following commands to create a new folder called autoload if it does not exist and download the plug.vim file into that folder. The plug.vim file contains the vim-plug source code

# Create a new folder called autoload
md ~\AppData\Local\nvim\autoload
# Downloads plug.vim file
$uri = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim'

(New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadFile(
  $uri,
  $ExecutionContext.SessionState.Path.GetUnresolvedProviderPathFromPSPath(
    "~\AppData\Local\nvim\autoload\plug.vim"
  )
)

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Now, run the below command to list (ls) all files and folders in *autoload* folder

ls -l ~\\AppData\\Local\\nvim\\autoload

The output below verifies the plug.vim file was created successfully.

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Installing a Plug-in with the vim-plug Manager

Now that you have vim-plug installed, it is time to see how it works by installing a plug-in. But which type of plug-ins can you install? In the context of text editors, a plugin is a piece of software that adds new features or functionality to the editor.

For example, some plugins function as follows:

• Add syntax highlighting for different programming languages.
• Add color schemes.
• Add keyboard shortcuts.

💡 There are thousands of Vim plugins available. Visit the GitHub repository for a list of popular Vim plugins.

In this tutorial, you will install the NERDTree plugin, a file explorer plugin for Neovim. This plugin allows you to explore and manage your filesystem.

To install a plug-in:

1. Open File Explorer, and navigate to the C:\Users\%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\nvim folder. Replace %USERPROFILE% with your actual username.

2. Next, create a new folder called plugged. This folder is where vim-plug will download and install plugins.

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3. Run the below command to create a new file called init.vim using Neovim. This file will be the Neovim configuration file, similar to the .vimrc file in Vim, which tells Neovim which plugins to install.

:e C:\Users\%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\nvim\init.vim

4. Press I to enter the insert mode, and add the code below. This code tells Neovim to install the nerdtree plugin from the official GitHub repository where:

• plug#begin() – Tells vim-plug where to download and install plugins.plug#end() – Tells vim-plug to stop looking for plugins.

The lines between the functions are plugin declarations, and you can put many plugin declarations, each on its own line.

" Tells vim-plug where to install plugins.
call plug#begin('C:\Users\Your_Username\AppData\Local\nvim\plugged\')
" Tells vim-plug where to download plugins.
Plug Plug 'https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree'
" Tells vim-plug to stop looking for plugins.
call plug#end()

5. Press ESC and run :wq to save your changes and close the init.vim file.

6. Now, run the below command to install any plug-in you specified in the init.vim file, which in this case, is the nerdtree plugin.

At this point, the NERDTree plugin is installed and ready to use.

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7. Once installed, navigate to the C:\Users\%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\nvim\plugged\ folder, and you will see a new folder called nerdtree, as shown below. This folder is where vim-plug downloaded and installed the NERDTree plugin.

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8. Finally, run the following command to access the NERDTree plugin.

Below, you can see the NERDTree opens a file explorer in a split window. Now, you can select files and folders with the basic keystrokes, like the arrow keys and the Enter key, to open them.

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Conclusion

A fast and reliable text editor is an essential tool for any programmer. Vim is a popular text editor among developers but has a steep learning curve. Nvim, on the other hand, is a fork of Vim with many enhancements and improvements.

In this tutorial, you learned how to install Neovim on Windows to edit texts and installed the NERDTree plugin to manage your file system without switching between different windows.

Neovim has so much to offer. Why not learn more about using this powerful text editor? Perhaps start using syntax highlighting? Play with colors and enjoy coding with Nvim!

Hi 👋
Today I want to share with you how I installed and configured NeoVim on Windows 11 [same goes for Win10].

First of all, you will need to install NeoVim.
The easisiest way to do it on Windows 10 is through winget :

winget install Neovim.Neovim

For more info : https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Installing-Neovim

Once this is done, you can type nvim [and not neovim].
Now we need to configure the editor.

It’s not that difficult to configure Neovim, just you will have to navigate to => Users folder => username’s folder => you will have to show hidden files => AppData => Local folder, enter it and there you will find a lot of folders,
but only two concern NeoVim, find folders :
1) nvim
2) nvim-data
Go ahead and open vim folder and there create init.vim file.
Then copy paste the below settings in that file :

:set number
:set autoindent
:set tabstop=5
:set shiftwidth=4
:set smarttab
:set softtabstop=4
:set mouse=a

call plug#begin()

Plug 'http://github.com/tpope/vim-surround' " Surrounding ysw)
Plug 'https://github.com/preservim/nerdtree' " NerdTree
Plug 'https://github.com/tpope/vim-commentary' " For Commenting gcc & gc
Plug 'https://github.com/vim-airline/vim-airline' " Status bar
Plug 'https://github.com/lifepillar/pgsql.vim' " PSQL Pluging needs :SQLSetType pgsql.vim
Plug 'https://github.com/ap/vim-css-color' " CSS Color Preview
Plug 'https://github.com/rafi/awesome-vim-colorschemes' " Retro Scheme
Plug 'https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim'  " Auto Completion
Plug 'https://github.com/ryanoasis/vim-devicons' " Developer Icons
Plug 'https://github.com/tc50cal/vim-terminal' " Vim Terminal
Plug 'https://github.com/preservim/tagbar' " Tagbar for code navigation
Plug 'https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors' " CTRL + N for multiple cursors
Plug 'https://github.com/rstacruz/vim-closer' " For brackets autocompletion


" Auto-completion  For Javascript, typescript, html, jsx ...etc
Plug 'neoclide/coc.nvim', {'do': 'yarn install --frozen-lockfile'} " this is for auto complete, prettier and tslinting

let g:coc_global_extensions = ['coc-tslint-plugin', 'coc-tsserver', 'coc-css', 'coc-html', 'coc-json', 'coc-prettier']  " list of CoC extensions needed

Plug 'jiangmiao/auto-pairs' "this will auto close ( [ {

" these two plugins will add highlighting and indenting to JSX and TSX files.
Plug 'yuezk/vim-js'
Plug 'HerringtonDarkholme/yats.vim'
Plug 'maxmellon/vim-jsx-pretty'

set encoding=UTF-8

call plug#end()

nnoremap <C-f> :NERDTreeFocus<CR>
nnoremap <C-n> :NERDTree<CR>
nnoremap <C-t> :NERDTreeToggle<CR>
nnoremap <C-l> :call CocActionAsync('jumpDefinition')<CR>

nmap <F8> :TagbarToggle<CR>

:set completeopt-=preview " For No Previews

:colorscheme jellybeans

let g:NERDTreeDirArrowExpandable="+"
let g:NERDTreeDirArrowCollapsible="~"

" --- Just Some Notes ---
" :PlugClean :PlugInstall :UpdateRemotePlugins
"
" :CocInstall coc-python
" :CocInstall coc-clangd
" :CocInstall coc-snippets
" :CocCommand snippets.edit... FOR EACH FILE TYPE

" air-line
let g:airline_powerline_fonts = 1

if !exists('g:airline_symbols')
    let g:airline_symbols = {}
endif

" airline symbols
let g:airline_left_sep = ''
let g:airline_left_alt_sep = ''
let g:airline_right_sep = ''
let g:airline_right_alt_sep = ''
let g:airline_symbols.branch = ''
let g:airline_symbols.readonly = ''
let g:airline_symbols.linenr = ''

inoremap <expr> <Tab> pumvisible() ? coc#_select_confirm() : "<Tab>"

Save the file,

:wq 

then exit.

Now you have to install your Plugins for your NeoVim, and the plugins are code written by other developers that we can use for different reasons, like the VSCode extensions and plugins; and they should be between :

call plug#begin() 

" Any plugin you want from GitHub [autocompleting, color schemes, nerdtree, etc..]

call plug#end()

Not only writing them will make it activated, so inside your nvim editor, type =>

: PlugInstall 

It won’t work, I know 😂 To make it work, you will have to go to your terminal, copy and paste the following command :

iwr -useb https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim |`
    ni "$(@($env:XDG_DATA_HOME, $env:LOCALAPPDATA)[$null -eq $env:XDG_DATA_HOME])/nvim-data/site/autoload/plug.vim" -Force

Remember, this is only will work for Windows 10 in your powershell [ for more info, check out this github link : https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug ]
You will find the CURL command to install on UNIX/LINUX.

Great! now, get back to nvim init.vim , and run: PlugInstall.
You will find a left window is opened and the installation of the plugins are running.

And you will be good to go for everything, except for autocompletion, you will find difficulties.
Now, for autocompletion, there is a plugin for each language [ I mainly work with python and node + html, css ,js ]
You have already copied the plugin for autocompletion coc-vim, but it’s not activated yet.
So, you will want to go to the other directory nvim-data , inside it open Plugged folder, then enter coc.nvim folder, and here you will have to run Yarn.
For Linux users:
Go to :
/home//.local/share/nvim/plugged/coc.nvim

If you don’t have yarn install, then install it with :

npm install --global yarn

You will have to have Node Version >=14.14.0, otherwise it is incompatible.
Once installed, go ahead and do :

yarn install

Again, once installed do :

yarn build

And that is all .. hmm not really, one last thing is missing.
If you will try to open a Python file, you will find that NeoVim is trying to find an interpreter ( for autocompletion ) and cannot do it, try to type any python code and you will see what I am saying.
So get back to your terminal again and type :

pip install jedi

Jedi is a static analysis tool for Python that is typically used in IDEs/editors plugins.
Jedi has a focus on autocompletion and goto functionality.
Other features include refactoring, code search and finding references.

Once that is installed, get back to your init.vim or any Python file to edit, and you should be absolutely fine by now

Hope this was helpful.
Subscribing to my YouTube channel will be very appreciated.
https://www.youtube.com/bekbrace
Best,
Bek

Neovim is a modern version of Vim text editor that is also available on Windows platforms for coding and text editing. If you are a Windows 11 or 10 user, you can easily install NeoVim using the Winget package manager command.

The key idea behind the development of NeoVim is to provide a highly extensible and modernized version of the VIM text editor, which is quite popular in Linux distros.

Neovim aims to address some of the issues that developers had with Vim, such as difficulties in integrating external tools, limitations in the user interface, and its overall complexity.

Key Features:

• Designed with an API to create custom plugins
• Allows for asynchronous execution of tasks
• Neovim can be embedded as a text-editing component in other applications
• The decoupled user interface in Neovim from the core editing functions provides more powerful and visually rich front-ends.
• Modern architecture
• Active Development and has a large, active community.

Step 1: Open Windows Terminal

Winget is a command-line tool and package manager for Windows 11 and 10 systems. Therefore, we need to access the command prompt to Powershell to use it. To open the Terminal application with Admin rights, users can press the Windows + X key or right-click the Start button; from the pop-up menu, select Terminal (Admin) or Windows PowerShell (Admin), whatever is available.

Step 2: Search for Neovim in Winget

Once we have command-line access, let’s confirm whether Neovim is available in the Winget repository. The given command will search for all packages containing the word “neovim.”

winget search neovim

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Step 3: Installing Neovim on Windows using Winget

Once you’ve confirmed that the Neovim package is available via Winget, use the given installation command to install Neovim on Windows 11 or 10 systems.

winget install Neovim.Neovim

or 

winget install "Neovim"

Winget will automatically download and install the latest version of Neovim from its repository. The progress will appear in your terminal, and once the installation is complete, the system will show a success message.

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Step 4: Verify the Installation

To ensure Neovim is on Windows, close the command terminal and open it again. Then, simply type the given command to access Neovim.

nvim

Alternatively, users can search for NeoVim directly from the Windows Start menu.

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Step 5: (Optional) Add Neovim to System Path

In most cases, Winget automatically adds Neovim to your system’s PATH. Still, suppose after completing the installation, you cannot start it directly from the command prompt or PowerShell by running its command, i.e., nvim. In that case, you must manually add this text editor installation directory to your system path.

Here are the steps to follow:

• Right-click on the Start button and select System.
• Click Advanced System Settings on the right-hand side of the System window.
• In the System Properties window, click the Environment Variables button.
• In the Environment Variables window, select the Path variable under System variables, then click Edit.
• Add the directory to the list where Neovim is installed (usually C:\Program Files\Neovim\bin).
• After updating the PATH, restart your terminal or system, and you can access Neovim from any directory.

Step 6: Customize Neovim

Neovim is highly customizable. You can edit the configuration file to adjust its behavior and appearance. The configuration file for Neovim is typically located at: For Windows, the location is usually: C:\Users\\AppData\Local\nvim\init.vim

You can add plugins, set up themes, or remap keybindings to personalize Neovim to your liking.

Step 7: Update Neovim

To keep Neovim up to date, we can install future updates of this tool using the Winget upgrade command; here is what to follow:

winget upgrade Neovim.Neovim

Uninstallation

Those who required to remove the Neovim after some point in time can again use the Winget command given here:

winget uninstall Neovim.Neovim

Summary

We have tried to make the tutorial as simple as possible. Users can access various applications quickly without visiting multiple web pages using the Windows package manager. If you encounter any problems while following the steps of this tutorial, let us know.

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