neovim-manager

Warning

This is still in active development.

It should not be considered stable until v1.0.0.

Methods for installing, updating and uninstalling this software WILL be changing.

Simple CLI tool to install and switch between latest stable and nightly builds of Neovim.

Note

Intended for use on Unix-like systems.

Requirements

• bash 4.0 or higher
• wget/curl
• tar

Install

Tip

Always check scripts before running them. See here to see the installation script for this software.

Installation of script and manpages to $HOME/.local/bin and $HOME/.local/share/man respectively. (no sudo):

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/peter-bread/neovim-manager/refs/heads/main/scripts/install | bash

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/peter-bread/neovim-manager/refs/heads/main/scripts/install | bash

Options

Set these variables to anything non-zero to enable them:

• MINIMAL: only install script; no manpages
• SYSTEM_WIDE: install to /usr/local/bin and /usr/share/man (needs sudo)

MINIMAL=1 SYSTEM_WIDE=1 bash <(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/peter-bread/neovim-manager/refs/heads/main/scripts/install)

MINIMAL=1 SYSTEM_WIDE=1 bash <(wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/peter-bread/neovim-manager/refs/heads/main/scripts/install)

Usage

Initialise in shell. Add the following to your shell rc file:

eval "$(neovim-manager init)"

Install (or update):

neovim-manager install stable

Use:

neovim-manager use stable

Uninstall:

neovim-manager uninstall stable

Uninstall

Run:

neovim-manager self-destruct

Under the Hood

neovim-manager fetches tarballs from the Neovim GitHub releases page. These are then extracted and stored locally. It will first attempt to store these in $XDG_DATA_HOME/neovim-manager/, but if that environment variable is not set than it will fall back to $HOME/.local/share/neovim-manager/.