Tips on NeoVim

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Installation on Ubuntu¶

You can install the latest stable version of neovim using the command below.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:neovim-ppa/stable
wajig update
wajig install neovim

Tips and Traps¶

1. AppImage is a good way to install the latest version of NeoVim.

2. AstroNvim is a great configuration for NeoVim.

3. NeoVim with a complicated configuration (e.g., AstroNvim, SpaceVim, etc) might be too slow when editing a large (>50M) text file. One trick helps is to disable plugins when editing large files. For example, you can use the following command to edit a large file without loading plugins.

    :::bash
    nvim --noplugin /path/to/large/text/file

Repeat¶

• Adding dot-repeat to your Neovim plugin

• Better repeat #1025