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                            NVIM REFERENCE MANUAL


Nvim                                                       nvim nvim-intro

Nvim is based on Vim by Bram Moolenaar.

If you already use Vim see nvim-from-vim for a quickstart.
If you are new to Vim, try the 30-minute tutorial: 

    :Tutor<Enter>

Nvim is emphatically a fork of Vim, not a clone: compatibility with Vim
(especially editor and Vimscript features) is maintained where possible. See
vim-differences for the complete reference of differences from Vim.

                                      Type gO to see the table of contents.

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Transitioning from Vim                          nvim-from-vim

1. To start the transition, create your init.vim (user config) file: 

    :exe 'edit '.stdpath('config').'/init.vim'
    :write ++p

2. Add these contents to the file: 

    set runtimepath^=~/.vim runtimepath+=~/.vim/after
    let &packpath = &runtimepath
    source ~/.vimrc

3. Restart Nvim, your existing Vim config will be loaded.

See provider-python and provider-clipboard for additional software you
might need to use some features.

Your Vim configuration might not be entirely Nvim-compatible (see
vim-differences). For example the 'ttymouse' option was removed from Nvim,
because mouse support is always enabled if possible. If you use the same
vimrc for Vim and Nvim you could guard 'ttymouse' in your configuration
like so:

    if !has('nvim')
        set ttymouse=xterm2
    endif

And for Nvim-specific configuration, you can do this:

    if has('nvim')
        tnoremap <Esc> <C-\><C-n>
    endif

For a more granular approach use exists():

    if exists(':tnoremap')
        tnoremap <Esc> <C-\><C-n>
    endif

Now you should be able to explore Nvim more comfortably. Check nvim-features
for more information.

                                                        portable-config
Because Nvim follows the XDG base-directories standard, configuration on
Windows is stored in ~/AppData instead of ~/.config. But you can still share
the same Nvim configuration on all of your machines, by creating
~/AppData/Local/nvim/init.vim containing just this line: 
    source ~/.config/nvim/init.vim

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