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title: "Neovim"
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category: "Code editors"
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tagline: "The modern Vim, set up with kickstart.nvim so it's useful from the first launch."
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source: "pacman"
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package: "neovim"
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command: "nvim"
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website: "https://neovim.io/"
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code: "https://github.com/neovim/neovim"
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links:
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- name: "kickstart.nvim"
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url: "https://github.com/nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim"
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- name: "Neovim documentation"
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url: "https://neovim.io/doc/"
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---
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## What it is
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Neovim is a fork of Vim, the keyboard-driven text editor, rebuilt for extensibility. It keeps Vim's modal editing, where you switch between moving around, inserting text and running commands, and adds a built-in Lua scripting engine, a language server client for code completion and diagnostics, and Tree-sitter for accurate syntax highlighting.
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## Why it's here
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- **Fast everywhere.** It runs in any terminal, locally or over SSH, and opens instantly.
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- **An IDE when you want one.** Language servers give it go-to-definition, completion and inline errors for most languages.
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- **Yours to shape.** The whole configuration is Lua in `~/.config/nvim`.
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## On CoreDesktop
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CoreDesktop installs Neovim from pacman and, if you don't already have a configuration, clones [kickstart.nvim](https://github.com/nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim) into `~/.config/nvim`. Kickstart is a single, well-commented `init.lua` that sets up a plugin manager, fuzzy finding, language servers and a color scheme. The first time you run `nvim`, it downloads its plugins.
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An existing `~/.config/nvim` is left alone. Neovim is also the editor the `eff` alias opens: it fuzzy-finds a file with fzf and opens the one you pick.
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