Neovim is a modal text editor forked off of Vim in 2014. Being modal means that you do not simply type text on screen, but the behavior and functionality of the editor changes entirely depending on the mode.
The most common and most used mode, the "normal mode" for Neovim is to essentially turn your keyboard in to hotkeys with which you can navigate and manipulate text. Several modes exist, but two other most common ones are "insert mode" where you type in text directly as if it was a traditional text editor, and "visual mode" where you select text.
Neovim seeks to enable further community participation in its development and to make drastic changes without turning it in to something that is "not Vim". Neovim also seeks to enable embedding the editor within GUI applications.
The Neovim logo by Jason Long is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
I'm trying to install Lazy, but I keep getting a checkout error for snacks -- any idea how I can resolve this?
UPDATE 01/14: So, after Astro failed to install last night, with the same issue with snacks.nvim, I tried starting nvim this morning. Much to my surprise, Astro was able to finish the snacks.nvim installation. So, I nuked everything and started Lazy installation again...and this time it installed without any issue with snacks.nvim.
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