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Using NeoVim as an effortless way to edit code – Installation and Setup Guide for Windows 10

Ritika Das on December 16, 2020

Hey fellow Devs, it's Ritika here. I recently tried out NeoVim on my PC to see what it's like. Ever wanted to delete text between tags/braces, sav...

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Vivek Ramachandran • Feb 2 '23

Can you please tell me how to switch between code and terminal tab in neovim on windows? I am going mad over this!
Thanks in advance!

Ritika Das • Feb 3 '23

Hi Vivek,
Can you send me screenshots?

Vivek Ramachandran • Feb 3 '23

I am able to jump between multiple files using ctrl+w and w. But once I use ctrl+w and w and jump from code to terminal I am not able to switch back to code file. I have to exit from terminal to get back to the file.

Vivek Ramachandran • Jan 29 '23

Thanks for this great article. I was able to set up neovim. I want to make an upadate. Plugins are now stored under "C:\Users\vivu\AppData\Local\nvim-data\plugged"

WITHERC0D3 • Jun 18 '21

so i have a question. i set up everything the same way as u did however when i did :PlugInstall and installed everything i didnt get a file named coc-settings.json which is important for me to have Prettier and stuff how do i fix this?

Ritika Das • Jul 2 '21

Install the plugin by:

:CocInstall coc-prettier

Run :CocConfig to open coc-settings.json, and add the languages you to be able to format via Prettier in an array.

{
  "coc.preferences.formatOnSaveFiletypes": ["css", "markdown", "javascript", "html"],
}

I hope this helps you to have Prettier.

WITHERC0D3 • Jul 5 '21

Thanks now i have set up vim and its quite amazing to shift from VScode to VIM as its incredbly light.

Ritika Das • Jul 5 '21

Great to know @witherc0d3 :)

Tahmid Hossain • May 6 '21

Hey there great article, installed neovim following all the steps.
But the problem is that while right clicking a file i.e. a python file, I don't get the option to open with neovim like I could with vim, sublime text, pycahrm or any other text editor or IDE for that matter.Any idea how can I get that option?

And when using the :ter command, neovim uses the default windows command prompt not powershell or bash which makes it a lot hard to use too.