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Problem: currently `CursorLine`, `Folded`, `StatusLineNC` highlight
groups have the same background color in default color scheme (Grey3).
This is a result of optimizing their highlighting to be different from
`Normal` but not draw too much attention.
However, this design has a usability issue as those groups are
sometimes appear together which can make it hard (but not impossible)
to differentiate between them.
This was previously partially resolved with `StatusLineNC` using Grey1
as background (and thus be different from `CursorLine` but closer to
`Normal`), but optimizing more towards it being a visible separator
between windows was decided to be more important.
Solution: make `Folded` use Grey1 and `StatusLineNC` use Grey4. This
makes all three highlight groups have different backgrounds with the
following consequences:
- Folds now have the same background as floating windows. It makes
them there differentiable only by the value of 'foldtext' (which
is usually enough). Optimizing for the case "cursor line is next
to the fold" seems to be more useful than for the case "make folds
in floating window differ by background".
- Statusline of inactive windows now draw more attention to them.
The benefits are that they are different from cursor column and
are better window separators.
- Inactive tabline (both `TabLine` and `TabLineFill`) now also draws
a bit more attention to it (as they are linked to `StatusLineNC`)
but with the benefit of also being different from `CursorLine`.
Neovim is a project that seeks to aggressively refactor Vim in order to:
- Simplify maintenance and encourage contributions
- Split the work between multiple developers
- Enable advanced UIs without modifications to the core
- Maximize extensibility
See the Introduction wiki page and Roadmap for more information.
Features
- Modern GUIs
- API access from any language including C/C++, C#, Clojure, D, Elixir, Go, Haskell, Java/Kotlin, JavaScript/Node.js, Julia, Lisp, Lua, Perl, Python, Racket, Ruby, Rust
- Embedded, scriptable terminal emulator
- Asynchronous job control
- Shared data (shada) among multiple editor instances
- XDG base directories support
- Compatible with most Vim plugins, including Ruby and Python plugins
See :help nvim-features for the full list, and :help news for noteworthy changes in the latest version!
Install from package
Pre-built packages for Windows, macOS, and Linux are found on the Releases page.
Managed packages are in Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch Linux, Void Linux, Gentoo, and more!
Install from source
See BUILD.md and supported platforms for details.
The build is CMake-based, but a Makefile is provided as a convenience. After installing the dependencies, run the following command.
make CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo
sudo make install
To install to a non-default location:
make CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/full/path/
make install
CMake hints for inspecting the build:
cmake --build build --target helplists all build targets.build/CMakeCache.txt(orcmake -LAH build/) contains the resolved values of all CMake variables.build/compile_commands.jsonshows the full compiler invocations for each translation unit.
Transitioning from Vim
See :help nvim-from-vim for instructions.
Project layout
├─ cmake/ CMake utils
├─ cmake.config/ CMake defines
├─ cmake.deps/ subproject to fetch and build dependencies (optional)
├─ runtime/ plugins and docs
├─ src/nvim/ application source code (see src/nvim/README.md)
│ ├─ api/ API subsystem
│ ├─ eval/ Vimscript subsystem
│ ├─ event/ event-loop subsystem
│ ├─ generators/ code generation (pre-compilation)
│ ├─ lib/ generic data structures
│ ├─ lua/ Lua subsystem
│ ├─ msgpack_rpc/ RPC subsystem
│ ├─ os/ low-level platform code
│ └─ tui/ built-in UI
└─ test/ tests (see test/README.md)
License
Neovim contributions since b17d96 are licensed under the
Apache 2.0 license, except for contributions copied from Vim (identified by the
vim-patch token). See LICENSE for details.
Vim is Charityware. You can use and copy it as much as you like, but you are
encouraged to make a donation for needy children in Uganda. Please see the
kcc section of the vim docs or visit the ICCF web site, available at these URLs:
https://iccf-holland.org/
https://www.vim.org/iccf/
https://www.iccf.nl/
You can also sponsor the development of Vim. Vim sponsors can vote for
features. The money goes to Uganda anyway.