Neovim

Installation

Neovim

Debian/Ubuntu:

Run the following commands:

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

Arch Linux:

Neovim can be installed from the community repository:

sudo pacman -S neovim

Vim-plug for Neovim

Unix, Linux:

sh -c 'curl -fLo "${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}"/nvim/site/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs \
       https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim'

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Configuration

Create config folder and config file:

sudo mkdir ~/.config/nvim
sudo touch ~/.config/nvim/init.vim
sudo chmod 774 ~/.config/nvim/init.vim

For Ubuntu the folder to store all plugins is '~/.config/nvim/plugged'

First, try to install Dracula theme for Neovim:

call plug#begin('~/.config/nvim/plugged')

" onedarkthem less contract
Plug 'dracula/vim',

call plug#end()

" syntax on
colorscheme dracula

Press Esc key to switch to Normal mode, and then type :w to overwrite and :so % to source this file.

Now, type :PlugInstall to install plugins.

If everything is OK, Next step

Delete all lines in current file, copy all the lines in the init.vim file above there ☝️☝️☝️ to current file

And install again:

Press Esc key to switch to Normal mode, and then type :w to overwrite and :so % to source this file and type :PlugInstall to install plugins.

Noted:

The fzf plugin has some dependencies:

• For syntax-highlighted preview, install bat
• If delta is available, GF?, Commits and BCommits will use it to format git diff output.
• Ag requires The Silver Searcher (ag)
• Rg requires ripgrep (rg)
• Tags and Helptags require Perl

If Vim-hexokinase error "needs to updating" like that

• Go to directory where Hexokinase in that like ~/.config/nvim/plugged/vim-hexokinase using the cd command.
• Run command make hexokinase . DONE !