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This is a maintenance release, focusing on bugfixes. Notably, fixes were made for using and testing Nvim on less common platforms, like big endian systems. BUG FIXES - defaults: Set 'fsync' - Dont create data dir if it's a broken symlink - Make InspectTree handle nested injection - Remove nested for_each_tree in TSTreeView - api: Use a conditional stack for nvim_cmd - change: Update fold after on_bytes - deps: Bump libmpack from luarocks - extmark_to_array: Convert conceal_char to bytes - highlight: Apply 'winblend' to float border - inccommand: Save and restore '[ and '] marks - inccommand: Don't crash with "split" and 'n' flag - lsp: Handle NUL bytes in popup text - lua: Correct return value for on_key with no arguments - lua: Crash in nlua_error - man: Make :Man with a range work - mappings: Fix mapset() not replacing map with backslash - marks: Handle switching buffer properly - mouse: Avoid dragging after click label popupmenu callback - mouse: Avoid dragging when clicking next to popupmenu - move: Check the correct buffer - options: Setting 'scroll' with resized grid - quickfix: Check if delete failed in qf_fill_buffer() - set_bool_option: Use int value to make bool Object - set_option_from_tv: Use v_bool to access boolean option - terminal: Assign channel to terminal earlier - terminal: Avoid Insert mode in Terminal buffer - terminal: Don't lose focus on <MouseMove> - terminal: Keep focus when scrolling number column of another window - terminal: Make backslashes in 'shell' work on Windows - treesitter: Foldexpr tweaks - treesitter: Remove incompatible c query (again) - ui: Empty line before the next message after :silent command BUILD SYSTEM! - Fix universal mac builds - ci: Ensure correct headers are used on macOS DOCUMENTATION - List NVIM_APPNAME as env on manpage - starting.txt: Correct step number PERFORMANCE - Remove redundant strlen in skipwhite TESTING - Fix dependencies between test cases and test flakiness
Neovim is a project that seeks to aggressively refactor Vim in order to:
- Simplify maintenance and encourage contributions
- Split the work between multiple developers
- Enable advanced UIs without modifications to the core
- Maximize extensibility
See the Introduction wiki page and Roadmap for more information.
Features
- Modern GUIs
- API access from any language including C/C++, C#, Clojure, D, Elixir, Go, Haskell, Java/Kotlin, JavaScript/Node.js, Julia, Lisp, Lua, Perl, Python, Racket, Ruby, Rust
- Embedded, scriptable terminal emulator
- Asynchronous job control
- Shared data (shada) among multiple editor instances
- XDG base directories support
- Compatible with most Vim plugins, including Ruby and Python plugins
See :help nvim-features for the full list, and :help news for noteworthy changes in the latest version!
Install from package
Pre-built packages for Windows, macOS, and Linux are found on the Releases page.
Managed packages are in Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch Linux, Void Linux, Gentoo, and more!
Install from source
See the Building Neovim wiki page and supported platforms for details.
The build is CMake-based, but a Makefile is provided as a convenience. After installing the dependencies, run the following command.
make CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo
sudo make install
To install to a non-default location:
make CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/full/path/
make install
CMake hints for inspecting the build:
cmake --build build --target helplists all build targets.build/CMakeCache.txt(orcmake -LAH build/) contains the resolved values of all CMake variables.build/compile_commands.jsonshows the full compiler invocations for each translation unit.
Transitioning from Vim
See :help nvim-from-vim for instructions.
Project layout
├─ cmake/ CMake utils
├─ cmake.config/ CMake defines
├─ cmake.deps/ subproject to fetch and build dependencies (optional)
├─ runtime/ plugins and docs
├─ src/nvim/ application source code (see src/nvim/README.md)
│ ├─ api/ API subsystem
│ ├─ eval/ VimL subsystem
│ ├─ event/ event-loop subsystem
│ ├─ generators/ code generation (pre-compilation)
│ ├─ lib/ generic data structures
│ ├─ lua/ Lua subsystem
│ ├─ msgpack_rpc/ RPC subsystem
│ ├─ os/ low-level platform code
│ └─ tui/ built-in UI
└─ test/ tests (see test/README.md)
License
Neovim contributions since b17d96 are licensed under the
Apache 2.0 license, except for contributions copied from Vim (identified by the
vim-patch token). See LICENSE for details.
Vim is Charityware. You can use and copy it as much as you like, but you are
encouraged to make a donation for needy children in Uganda. Please see the
kcc section of the vim docs or visit the ICCF web site, available at these URLs:
https://iccf-holland.org/
https://www.vim.org/iccf/
https://www.iccf.nl/
You can also sponsor the development of Vim. Vim sponsors can vote for
features. The money goes to Uganda anyway.