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About Nvim Q_ct

news News since the previous release

nvim Getting start with Nvim

tutor 30-minute interactive course for beginners

vim-differences Nvim compared to Vim

faq Frequently Asked Questions

tips Various tips

bugs Where to send bug reports

support Supported platforms

copying About copyrights

Usage

helphelp Using the :help files

intro Introduction to Vim

quickref Overview of common commands

index Index of all commands

user-manual User manual: How to accomplish editing tasks.

message.txt (Error) messages and explanations

Kuwasha Helping poor children in Uganda

Basic editing

starting Starting Vim, Vim command arguments, initialisation

edit-files Editing and writing files

motion.txt Commands for moving around

scrolling Scrolling the text in the window

insert.txt Insert and Replace mode

change.txt Deleting and replacing text

undo-redo Undo and Redo

repeat.txt Repeating commands, Vim scripts and debugging

visual-mode Using Visual mode (selecting text)

various Various other commands

crash-recovery Recovering from a crash

Advanced editing

cmdline Command-line editing

options Description of all options

pattern-searches Vim regexp patterns and search commands

key-mapping Key mapping (shortcuts), abbreviations

tags Tags and special searches

windows Commands for using windows and buffers

tabpage Commands for using tabpages

spell Spell checking

diff Comparing files

folding Hide (fold) ranges of lines

terminal Embedded terminal emulator

API (extensibility/scripting/plugins)

api Nvim API via RPC, Lua and Vimscript

ui Nvim UI protocol

lua-guide Nvim Lua guide

lua Lua API

luaref Lua reference manual

luvref Luv (vim.uv) reference manual

autocmd Event handlers

job-control Spawn and control multiple processes

channel Nvim asynchronous IO

vimscript Vimscript reference

vimscript-functions Vimscript functions

remote-plugin Nvim remote plugins

health Health checking

Programming language support

lsp Language Server Protocol (LSP)

diagnostic-api Diagnostic framework

treesitter Incremental syntax parsing

indent.txt automatic indenting for C and other languages

syntax syntax highlighting

filetype Settings for specific types of files

quickfix Commands for a quick edit-compile-fix cycle

ft_ada.txt Ada filetype plugin

ft_hare.txt Filetype plugin for Hare

ft_ps1.txt PowerShell filetype plugin

ft_raku.txt Raku filetype plugin

ft_rust.txt Rust filetype plugin

ft_sql.txt SQL filetype plugin

UI

tui Builtin UI

gui External (graphical) UIs

signs Signs displayed as window decorations (the "gutter")

Multilingual support

digraph List of available digraphs

mbyte.txt Multibyte text support

mlang.txt Non-English language support

rileft.txt Right-to-left editing mode

l10n-arabic.txt Arabic language support and editing

l10n-hebrew.txt Hebrew language support and editing

l10n-russian.txt Russian language support and editing

l10n-vietnamese.txt Vietnamese language support and editing

Interop

provider Builtin remote plugin hosts

if_perl Perl interface

if_pyth Python interface

if_ruby Ruby interface

Versions

deprecated Deprecated features that will be removed

vi-differences Differences between Vim and Vi

Developing nvim

dev Development of Nvim

dev-arch Internal architecture, modules, data structures

dev-style Development style guidelines

dev-test Writing and running tests

dev-theme Design guidelines (colorschemes etc.)

dev-tools Tools and techniques for developing Nvim

dev-vimpatch Merging patches from Vim

Standard plugins

See standard-plugin-list.

Local additions

Bars example bars

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