neovim/README.md

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Neovim is a project that seeks to aggressively refactor Vim in order to:

- Simplify maintenance and encourage [contributions](CONTRIBUTING.md)
- Split the work between multiple developers
- Enable advanced [external UIs] without modifications to the core
- Improve extensibility with a new [plugin architecture](https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Plugin-UI-architecture)

For more details, see
[the wiki](https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Introduction)!

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What's been done so far
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- RPC API based on [MessagePack](https://msgpack.org)
- Embedded [terminal emulator](https://neovim.io/doc/user/nvim_terminal_emulator.html)
- Asynchronous [job control](https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/2247)
- [Shared data (shada)](https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/2506) among multiple editor instances
- [XDG base directories](https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/3470) support
- [libuv](https://github.com/libuv/libuv/)-based platform/OS/"mch" layer
- [Pushdown automaton](https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/3413) input model
- 1000s of new tests
- Legacy tests converted to Lua tests

See [`:help nvim-features`][nvim-features] for a comprehensive list.

What's being worked on now
--------------------------

See the [Roadmap].

How do I get it?
----------------

There is a Debian package, homebrew formula, PKGBUILD for Arch Linux, RPM, and
more. See [the wiki](https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Installing-Neovim)!

License
-------

Neovim is licensed under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license, except for
parts that were contributed under the Vim license.

- Contributions committed before [b17d96][license-commit] remain under the Vim
  license.

- Contributions committed after [b17d96][license-commit] are licensed under
  Apache 2.0 unless those contributions were copied from Vim (identified in
  the commit logs 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:

            http://iccf-holland.org/
            http://www.vim.org/iccf/
            http://www.iccf.nl/

    You can also sponsor the development of Vim.  Vim sponsors can vote for
    features.  The money goes to Uganda anyway.

[license-commit]: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/commit/b17d9691a24099c9210289f16afb1a498a89d803
[nvim-features]: https://neovim.io/doc/user/vim_diff.html#nvim-features
[Roadmap]: https://neovim.io/roadmap/
[external UIs]: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Related-projects#gui-projects

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