Turn Neovim into An AI IDE

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avante.nvim is a Neovim plugin designed to emulate the behaviour of the Cursor AI IDE. It provides users with AI-driven code suggestions and the ability to apply these recommendations directly to their source files with minimal effort.

Installation and Configuration via AstroNvim¶

Enable avante.nvim in lua/community.lua .
Customize configuration (e.g., LLM provider) in lua/plugins/avante.lua if needed.
Export API keys. Taking Gemini as an example, exporting either GEMINI_API_KEY or AVANTE_GEMINI_API_KEY (preferred) works. To do this in the fish shell, use
```
set -Ux GEMINI_API_KEY "your_api_key_here"
```
or
```
set -Ux AVANTE_GEMINI_API_KEY "your_api_key_here"
```
. If you don’t want like exporting environment variables for API keys (due to security concerns), you can manage your API keys using a password manager (e.g., pass) and have the following configuration in
lua/plugins/avante.lua .
```
gemini = {
    api_key_name = "cmd:pass show google/gemini-api",
}
```
If you run into errors saying “cannot make changes. modifiable is off” when using the sidebar, run :set modifiable to toggle on modifiable.

Turn Neovim into An AI IDE

Installation and Configuration via AstroNvim¶

References¶