1. Building neovim Download the latest release from https://github.com/neovim/neovim and extract it. cd neovim make CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/bin/nvim/ make install add ~/bin/nvim/bin to PATH 2. using vim configs copy .vimrc, .vim/ to home dir install vim-plug sh -c 'curl -fLo "${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}"/nvim/site/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs \ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim' Launch vim, run :PlugInstall