How to install neovim

Neovim is fork of Vim with a Lua scripting layer and modern plugin architecture. The project is developed in the open and released under its own licence.

About the project

Neovim is fork of Vim with a Lua scripting layer and modern plugin architecture. The maintainers own the project, choose releases, and publish their own documentation. This page records a few things worth knowing before you begin.

Governance sits with the project's own team. They decide what ships, how often it ships, and which platforms are supported.

How projects are distributed

Projects of this kind are usually reached through the operating system's package index, through a language-specific registry, or by building the published source tree. Which route applies depends on the platform and on the maintainers' own guidance.

What to confirm beforehand

It is worth checking which platforms the current release targets. Support windows differ, and the newest version is not always the one that fits an older machine.

Checking the result

Verifying afterwards is straightforward. If something behaves unexpectedly, check for an older copy earlier in the path, or for a version manager pointing elsewhere.

What this site is

Nothing is published from this domain beyond text. Projects stay where their maintainers put them.