AstroNvim Setup in Fedora 39

Transform your Neovim with AstroNvim: Easy setup guide for Nerdfonts, Python, and essential dev tools.

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Website: https://astronvim.com/

Prerequisites

Install Nerdfonts

1. Download any font you like here: https://www.nerdfonts.com/font-downloads
2. Put the extracted files to /usr/.local/share/fonts if you want them installed only by your user or /usr/share/fonts if you want them installed globally (you need sudo right).
3. Rebuild the font cache: fc-cache -f -v

Install Neovim

Website: https://neovim.io/

sudo dnf install -y neovim python3-neovim

When you install Neovim, it works with the command nvim not to clash with Vim as vim. So we need to create an alias for nvim if you would like to open Neovim with vim command. I assume that you installed zsh as the default shell:

sudo nvim ~/.zshrc

Add the following line:

alias vim=nvim

In some consoles (it happened to me with Konsole in KDE), aliases don’t work with sudo…