Installation

The installation has two parts:

• Setting Up neovim
• Setting Up the Config

Setting Up neovim

If you already have neovim installed on your machine, make sure it matches the version expected by this config.

The recommended way to install and switch neovim versions is mise. Avoid downloading release artifacts manually unless you have a specific reason to do so; mise is faster to use day to day and keeps version management predictable.

The current my-nvim-config setup pins NVIM_VERSION to 0.11.4. We are working on upgrading the config to support nvim 0.12.0 or newer.

1. Search for available neovim versions

mise search neovim
mise ls-remote neovim

2. Install and use the pinned neovim version globally

mise use neovim@0.11.4 -g

3. Check the neovim version

nvim --version

The first line should report NVIM v0.11.4.

4. Optional: install from GitHub releases manually

Manual artifact installation is slower and harder to maintain. Use it only when mise is not available in your environment.

NVIM_VERSION=v0.11.4
wget https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/download/"${NVIM_VERSION}"/nvim-linux64.tar.gz
rm -rf /usr/local/nvim-linux64 && tar -C /usr/local -zxvf nvim-linux64.tar.gz # as root

Setting Up the Config

mkdir -p $HOME/.config/nvim \
&& git clone https://github.com/kevinliao852/my-nvim-config.git $HOME/.config/nvim/

After setting up the config, type nvim on the terminal and wait a few seconds to have plugins installed.