How to use Neovim In Linux

If you have ever used Vim text editor you will find Neovim familiar as Neovim has the same commands as Vim. But, it has more features than Vim.

If you don’t know how to use Vim, don’t worry in this article you will learn how to use Neovim so that you can get work done using a powerful Neovim text editor.

1) Create a file using Neovim

To create a file using Neovim you have to first open your terminal, and then write the following command to create the file, and then press enter:

nvim w3wiki.txt

you can give any name or extension you want to work with. But in this example, we have created a file with the name ‘w3wiki.txt’ and using the ‘.txt’ extension.

After you enter the above command and press enter, vim will open a text editor where you can write all the stuff and the stuff will be saved in that particular filename.

2) Insert text in Vim editor

After creating a file using Neovim, we have to enter some lines or text. To enter text we have to press the key:

• ‘i’ : after you press the key ‘i’ , you will be able to enter text.

After you see the insert, you can write text and all the data you want to write.

3) Saving the file and exit

After you are done with writing text using Neovim editor, it’s time to save the file and quit the editor. To do the following

• ESC: press ‘ESC’ to enter into command mode where you will write a command to save the file

After that, you can enter the command here.

To save the file enter the below command:

• ‘:w’ – Enter ‘:w’ which is a semicolon followed by the letter ‘w’ which means to write and then press enter. You will see the output like this

Press enter and then your file will be saved with the content you have written in the file.

4) Exit the editor

After writing the text and then saving the file it is time to exit the Neovim text editor. To do this first make sure in Command mode, you can enter command mode by clicking on ‘esc’.

• ‘:q’ – enter semicolon followed by letter ‘q’ which means quit, after entering this command press enter. you will quit the neovim editor and come back to the terminal window.

Press enter and then neovim editor will close and you will return to the terminal window.

Now, you have successfully created a file using Neovim editor and now you can work with Neovim editor.

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