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Install Vim/Neovim with Python support

This artical will tell you how to install vim and neovim, and how to enable +python3 support.

• Install Neovim
  • Windows
  • Linux
• Enable python3 support

Install Neovim

Windows

On Windows, the easiest way to install Neovim is to download Neovim.zip from neovim release page. and extract it into C:\Neovim. You can also add C:\Neovim\bin to your PATH.

Linux

You can install neovim or vim with default package manager.

Ubuntu

sudo apt install neovim

Arch Linux

sudo pacman -S neovim

Enable python3 support

First of all, you need to install python3. and set the env PYTHON3_HOST_PROG to the path of python. for example: C:\Python39\python.exe.

Install pynvim, run python -m pip install pynvim.