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                                              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 BUILD.md 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 help lists all build targets.
                                                * build/CMakeCache.txt (or cmake -LAH build/) contains the resolved values of all CMake variables.
                                                * build/compile_commands.json shows 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/ Vimscript 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.txt for details.

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