Features
Extensible
- API is first-class:discoverable,versioned,documented.
- MessagePack structured communication enables extensions in any language.
- Remote plugins run as co-processes, safely and asynchronously.
- GUIs, IDEs, web browsers can
--embedNeovim as an editor or script host. - Lua plugins are easy to create just like Vimscript plugins. Your config can live in
init.lua! - AST-producingparsing engine enables faster, more accurate syntax highlighting, code navigation, refactoring, text objects, and motions.
Usable
- Strongdefaults including a unique, minimalist colorscheme.
- BuiltinLSP client for semantic code inspection and refactoring (go-to definition, "find references", format, …).
- Client-server architecture allows you todetach the UI and keep the editor session running (like tmux). Attach multiple UIs to any Nvim session.
- No "Press ENTER" messages.
- Works the same everywhere: one build-type, one command.
- Modern terminal features such as cursor styling, focus events, bracketed paste.
- Builtin:terminal set the standard for "TTY as a basic component".
Drop-in Vim
- Fully compatible with Vim's editing model and Vimscript v1.
- Start with
:help nvim-from-vimif you already use Vim. If not, try:Tutor.
Sponsors
News
| Neovim 0.11 | 2025.03 |
| Google Summer of Code 2025 | 2025.02 |
Impressions
"Neovim is exactly what it claims to be. It fixes every issue I have with Vim."—Geoff Greer
"Full-screen Neovim looks cool as hell!"—DHH
"A nice looking website, that’s one thing Neovim did right."—Bram Moolenaar
