Unit #0-05

Learning Outcome

At the end of this lesson, you will be able to:

• load and use Neovim

Lesson

• ENSURE your user has "sudo" access

  • how to here

• in reality, we most likely do not want to use Vim but Neovim

  • we actually want version 0.50 > though since that is when Lua was introduced!

  • see video of why Neovim!

  • and it is open source and not developed by a single person

• install Neovim

  • see video below

  • 1:48 - 3:38

    • install the prerequisites first:

      • https://github.com/neovim/neovim/blob/master/BUILD.md#build-prerequisites 

    • then build from source:

      • https://github.com/neovim/neovim/blob/master/BUILD.md 

    • full repo is here:

      • https://github.com/neovim/neovim

    • all the prerequisites work for me, in Debian!

      • STOP at "install Vim Plug", will do that soon!

• from now on use Neovim and NOT Vim:
  nvim .

• this setup series for NeoVim might also be helpful