Neovim is a fork of Vim aimed at improving the codebase, allowing easier API implementation, improving user experience and plugin implementation. Neovim has 30% less source code than Vim.

Neovim 0.8.2 is released, which is mostly a bug fix release but adds some improvements to the documentation.

features

• help: code block highlighted

document

• lua: Add guide for using Lua in Neovim
• Mention how to remove the menu item for “How to disable the mouse”
• Fix number order in syntax.txt
• lua: correct vim.opt_local and vim.opt_global labels

bug fixes

• api: set correct curbuf when temporarily changing curwin
• api: “emsg_silent” should mean “silent” in nvim_cmd
• Do not reset must_redraw after calling providers
• Diagnostics: Clear stale cache on reset
• float: fix bugs with ml_get and bufpos
• memory: fix dynamically allocated memory alignment
• options: restore the existence() behavior of options
• tui: set the cursor color parameter to a string if necessary
• win_close: remove the floating grid after closing the buffer

build system fixes

• Will git describe restricted to the highest level source code directory

For more details, please check: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/tag/v0.8.2