sections:

- title: General

url: /doc/

- title: Lua resources

url: /doc/lua-resources/

- title: LSP

url: /doc/lsp/

- title: Tree-sitter

url: /doc/treesitter/

<a href="https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases">Download</a> an archive

<h3><a href="https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/FAQ">FAQ</a></h3>

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Check the <a href="https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/FAQ">FAQ</a>

and <a href="https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Following-HEAD">breaking changes</a> for solutions to common issues.

The <a href="http://vimhelp.appspot.com/vim_faq.txt.html">Vim FAQ</a> is also useful.

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<a href="http://neovim.io/doc/user">User manual</a>

This is the online form of Nvim's <a href="http://neovim.io/doc/user/"><code>:help</code></a> system.

<li>Neovim features are documented at <a href="https://neovim.io/doc/user/vim_diff.html#nvim-features"><code>:help nvim-features</code></a>.</li>

<li><a href="http://neovim.io/doc/user/quickref.html"><code>:help quickref</code></a> is a handy cheatsheet.</li>

<li>Read <a href="https://neovim.io/doc/user/nvim.html#nvim-from-vim"><code>:help nvim-from-vim</code></a> if you already use Vim.</li>

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<h2>What is the Language Server Protocol ?</h2>

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<a href="https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/">Language Server Protocol (LSP)</a> is an open, JSON-RPC-based protocol for communication between source code editors and language servers, which provide programming language-specific features such as:

<ul>

<li>Go to definition</li>

<li>(auto)completion</li>

<li>Code Actions (automatic formatting, organize imports, ...)</li>

<li>Show method signatures</li>

<li>Show/go to references</li>

<li>Snippets</li>

</ul>

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Starting with version 0.5, neovim natively supports this protocol.

To enjoy these features, you need to install and configure a LSP server for the languages you are interested in.

The neovim organization maintains a list of configurations in the <a href="https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig">nvim-lspconfig plugin</a>.

The repository contains instructions to setup and troubleshoot many servers.

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<h2>Where to look for lua guidance ?</h2>

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Lua support improves with every release. Neovim 0.5 can for instance load its configuration from an init.lua instead of the traditional init.vim.

The lua ecosystem around neovim is thrilling and so we list here a few resources to help you get started:

<ul>

<li>A <a href="https://github.com/nanotee/nvim-lua-guide">starting guide</a> for lua and neovim</a></li>

</ul>

and of course the exhaustive `:help lua`.

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<h2>What is tree-sitter ?</h2>

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Neovim 0.5 adds experimental support for tree-sitter, a tool that serves as a parsing library. Parsing your code into a syntax tree allows for manipulating the structure of your code in a more intelligent way than is currently possible with regular expressions. This allows for improved (and faster):

<ul>

<li>syntax highlighting</li>

<li>code navigation</li>

<li>refactoring</li>

<li>text objects and motions</li>

</ul>

See the tree-sitter <a href="https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/">official website</a> for more details.

The support is experimental but if you feel adventurous, you can use <a href="https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter">the following plugin</a> to install the language-specific tree-sitter grammars.

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<li>Built-in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZbMVj9XSUo">terminal emulator</a></li>