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Neovim

hyperextensible Vim-based text editor

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Overview

What Neovim does

Neovim is a project that seeks to aggressively refactor Vim in order to simplify maintenance and enable advanced UIs without compromising Vim's traditional roles as an editor or shell-integration compatibility.

What people use it for

  • General source-code editing
  • Terminal-based development workflows, including over SSH on remote servers
  • Building custom IDE-like environments via LSP and Lua plugins
  • Embedding as an editor component in other GUI/IDE front-ends via --embed
  • Vim-compatible scripting and automation of text editing

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The honest half

Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Neovim.

  • No official first-party GUI is shipped; Neovim itself is a terminal-based editor and only maintains a curated list of third-party GUI front-ends
  • Licensing is not uniform: code contributed after commit b17d96 is Apache 2.0, but code carried over from Vim (tagged vim-patch) remains under Vim's own license
  • Built-in LSP client and Tree-sitter integration are frameworks requiring separate configuration or plugins for language servers/grammars to be useful, not out-of-box language support
  • No official iOS, Android, or web build

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Capabilities

Features

  • Async job control

    Async job control capability

  • Lua scripting

    Lua scripting capability

  • Built-in LSP client

    Built-in LSP client capability

  • Tree-sitter syntax highlighting

    Tree-sitter syntax highlighting capability

  • Extensible UI

    Extensible UI capability

  • Terminal emulator

    Terminal emulator capability

  • Modern plugin architecture

    Modern plugin architecture capability

  • Better defaults

    Better defaults capability

  • Language servers

    Integration with Language servers

  • Git

    Integration with Git

  • Terminal

    Integration with Terminal

  • Lua ecosystem

    Integration with Lua ecosystem

Behind it

Who makes Neovim

Company
Neovim Team
Based in
Open Source Community
Founders
Thiago de Arruda

Timeline

Neovim over time

  1. Funding2014-03-01$33,000

    Crowdfunding campaign

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