vim - Who needs a mouse?

In this talk, we will use the neovim fork of the vim editor. This is a conscious choice because of neovim's portability and OS-neutrality. The functionality between the two is almost completely the same, as neovim is written to (almost) seamlessly support vim configurations. The configurations shown during the talk will work equally well with the standard version of vim.

In order to follow along with the talk, please prepare the following:

Windows

Prerequisites

• Python 3.x - get it here, install it and make sure it's added to your PATH variable
• Git for Windows or a comparable implementation of git, as we will be cloning some repositories

Installation

• download the latest version of the neovim editor
• extract it to a directory that is easy to access (C:\tools\neovim or similar)
• create a directory nvim in C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Local\
• in the nvim directory, create a file called init.vim
• open a command line and run pip install neovim

Linux

Prerequisites

• Python 3.x - install it with your distro's package manager, check if you have access to the pip command on your command line
• Git - install it with your distro's package manager

Installation

Distro	Package manager command
Ubuntu/Debian Linux	sudo apt install neovim
Arch Linux	sudo pacman -S neovim
Fedora Linux	sudo dnf install -y neovim python3-neovim

• create the folder $HOME/.config/nvim
• inside the nvim folder, create a file called init.vim
• in your shell, run the command pip install neovim