Neovim

E183289

Vim fork cross-platform software free and open-source software terminal-based application text editor

Neovim is a modern, extensible, and highly configurable fork of the Vim text editor, designed to improve usability, maintainability, and plugin integration for developers.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Neovim canonical	7
Neovim community	1
https://neovim.io	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1611193 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Neovim
Context triple: [GitHub Copilot, integratesWith, Neovim]

A. Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code is a popular, lightweight, cross-platform source-code editor from Microsoft that supports extensive extensions and debugging features for many programming languages.
B. Doom Emacs
Doom Emacs is a fast, modular, and highly-configurable Emacs distribution that provides a modern, Vim-inspired editing experience with curated defaults and packages.
C. Spacemacs
Spacemacs is a community-driven Emacs distribution that combines Vim- and Emacs-style editing with a highly organized, modular configuration system.
D. Bravo text editor
Bravo text editor was an early WYSIWYG word processing program developed at Xerox PARC that pioneered many modern graphical text-editing concepts.
E. IntelliJ IDEA
IntelliJ IDEA is a popular, feature-rich integrated development environment (IDE) widely used for professional Java development and other JVM-based languages.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Neovim
Target entity description: Neovim is a modern, extensible, and highly configurable fork of the Vim text editor, designed to improve usability, maintainability, and plugin integration for developers.

A. Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code is a popular, lightweight, cross-platform source-code editor from Microsoft that supports extensive extensions and debugging features for many programming languages.
B. Doom Emacs
Doom Emacs is a fast, modular, and highly-configurable Emacs distribution that provides a modern, Vim-inspired editing experience with curated defaults and packages.
C. Spacemacs
Spacemacs is a community-driven Emacs distribution that combines Vim- and Emacs-style editing with a highly organized, modular configuration system.
D. JetBrains Rider
JetBrains Rider is a cross-platform .NET IDE by JetBrains that combines ReSharper’s code analysis with a fast, IntelliJ-based development environment.
E. Bravo text editor
Bravo text editor was an early WYSIWYG word processing program developed at Xerox PARC that pioneered many modern graphical text-editing concepts.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (52)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Vim fork ⓘ cross-platform software ⓘ free and open-source software ⓘ terminal-based application ⓘ text editor ⓘ
basedOn	Vim ⓘ
configurationFile	init.lua ⓘ init.vim ⓘ
developer	Neovim community ⓘ linked to: Neovim
goal	improve Vim extensibility ⓘ improve Vim maintainability ⓘ modernize Vim codebase ⓘ provide better plugin integration ⓘ
hasFeature	GUI front-end support ⓘ LSP (Language Server Protocol) client ⓘ Lua configuration API ⓘ asynchronous job control ⓘ built-in terminal emulator ⓘ clipboard integration ⓘ code folding ⓘ extensible UI via RPC ⓘ macros ⓘ modal editing ⓘ mouse support ⓘ plugin manager support ⓘ registers ⓘ remote plugin architecture ⓘ split windows ⓘ syntax highlighting ⓘ tabs ⓘ treesitter integration ⓘ undo tree ⓘ
initialReleaseDate	2014 ⓘ
license	Apache License 2.0 ⓘ Vim license ⓘ
programmingLanguage	C ⓘ Lua ⓘ
repository	https://github.com/neovim/neovim ⓘ
supportsOperatingSystem	BSD ⓘ Linux ⓘ Unix-like systems ⓘ Windows ⓘ macOS ⓘ
supportsPluginManager	lazy.nvim ⓘ packer.nvim ⓘ vim-plug ⓘ
supportsScriptingLanguage	Lua ⓘ Node.js (via plugins) ⓘ linked to: Node.js Python (via plugins) ⓘ linked to: Python Ruby (via plugins) ⓘ Vim script ⓘ linked to: Vim
website	https://neovim.io ⓘ linked to: Neovim

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

GitHub Copilot → integratesWith → Neovim ⓘ

Neovim → developer → Neovim community ⓘ

linked to: Neovim

Neovim → website → https://neovim.io ⓘ

linked to: Neovim

Language Server Protocol → usedBy → Neovim ⓘ

clangd → compatibleWith → Neovim ⓘ

Emacs family of editors → competesWith → Neovim ⓘ

Vim → notableFork → Neovim ⓘ

vi → influenced → Neovim ⓘ

subject linked to: vi text editor

vi → hasSuccessor → Neovim ⓘ