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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 wiki and Roadmap for more information.

Install from source

make CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo
sudo make install

See the wiki for details.

Install from package

Pre-built packages for Windows, macOS, and Linux are found at the Releases page.

Managed packages are in Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch Linux, Gentoo, and more!

Project layout

├─ ci/            Build server scripts
├─ cmake/         Build scripts
├─ runtime/       User plugins/docs
├─ src/           Source code
├─ third-party/   CMake subproject to build dependencies 
└─ test/          Test code

• third-party/ is activated if USE_BUNDLED_DEPS is undefined or the USE_BUNDLED CMake option is true.
• Source README
• Test README

Features

• Modern GUIs
• API access from any language including clojure, lisp, go, haskell, lua, javascript, perl, python, 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!

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 remain under the Vim license.

• Contributions committed after b17d96 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.