Neovim

Call me late to the party if you want, but I recently adopted Neovim as my new full-time text editor for work, and I have to say I’m very pleased of having done so. In case you don’t know (which given my audience, I’d be surprised to hear) Neovim is a successor of Vim, built since 2014 on a fork of version 7 point something of Vim. The good news is that it is almost 100% compatible with Vim, and that means I could reuse my good old .vimrc, using the following initialization file in ~/.config/nvim/init.vim set runtimepath^=~/.vim runtimepath+=~/.vim/after let &packpath = &runtimepath source ~/.vimrc And that’s it. The only line in my .vimrc that didn’t work in Neovim was the following: set guitablabel=%t Which to be honest, I don’t remember why it was there. Most of the Vim plugins I had installed with Pathogen worked off-the-box, with the exception of Gundo, which had trouble accessing my Python environment; so I had to install a separate Python package for that: $ pip3 install --user…