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| author | Florian Walch <florian@fwalch.com> | 2015-07-01 14:02:05 +0300 |
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| committer | Michael Reed <m.reed@mykolab.com> | 2015-07-01 18:59:07 -0400 |
| commit | b4d45f635dec20f49832666ef9f59069b293827e (patch) | |
| tree | dcbe5ed050806a7b5b4a632975ace58f7c1e4db9 | |
| parent | b656a954cfec0379a5bb2f7f5d1f28cbc03324df (diff) | |
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doc: Mention that Python module might be provided by package manager #2935
Using e.g. a Linux distribution's package manager should be preferred
over installing the `neovim` Python modules with `pip`.
| -rw-r--r-- | runtime/doc/nvim_python.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/runtime/doc/nvim_python.txt b/runtime/doc/nvim_python.txt index 1117480a1a..a93e89303c 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/nvim_python.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/nvim_python.txt @@ -20,16 +20,25 @@ Note: For now only the old Vim 7.3 API is supported. ============================================================================== 2. Quickstart *nvim-python-quickstart* +If you used a package manager to install Nvim, there's a good chance that +it also provides the `neovim` Python package. If it doesn't, follow these +steps to install the package with Python's package manager, `pip`. + +Note: Depending on your system, `pip` might refer to Python 2 or Python 3, + which is why the following instructions mention `pip2` or `pip3` + explicitly. If one of these is not available for you, maybe `pip` + is what you want. + To use Vim Python 2/3 plugins with Nvim, do the following: - For Python 2 plugins, make sure an interpreter for Python 2.6 or 2.7 is available in your `$PATH`, then install the `neovim` Python package systemwide: > - $ sudo pip install neovim + $ sudo pip2 install neovim < or for the current user: > - $ pip install --user neovim + $ pip2 install --user neovim < - For Python 3 plugins, make sure an interpreter for Python 3.3 or above is available in your `$PATH`, then install the `neovim` Python package systemwide: |