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-# kickstart.nvim
+# mgua's kickstart.nvim
 
 ### Introduction
 
-A starting point for Neovim that is:
+This project is heavily based on TJ DeVries amazing work to promote Neovim adoption and usage.
-
+Please see the original project nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim
-* Small
+In my neovim journey I recently migrated from vimscript to lua, and I am still in the process of adjusting my setup.
-* Single-file (with examples of moving to multi-file)
+
-* Documented
+I am working to make this kickstart a standard for my development team, which is easy to deploy on Windows Linux amd MacOSX systems.
-* Modular
+Kickstart is just a configuration procedure. It requires to have several components installed and prepared. In the following notes I will list the preparation activities to be performed on the different operating systems.
-
+A possible alternative approach is to use a neovim distribution, like 
-This repo is meant to be used as by **YOU** to begin your Neovim journey; remove the things you don't use and add what you miss.
+- [LazyVim](https://www.lazyvim.org/): maintained by @folke (the author of lazy.nvim package manager)
-
+
-Distribution Alternatives:
+### Linux
-- [LazyVim](https://www.lazyvim.org/): A delightful distribution maintained by @folke (the author of lazy.nvim, the package manager used here)
+
-
+## Neovim preparation and Installation for Linux
-### Installation
+
-
+# Ubuntu
-----------------
+from root:
-
+- apt update
-<b>Procedure for linux</b><p>
+- apt upgrade
- 
+- apt install software-properties-common
-Exit from nvim if open<p>
+- add-apt-repository ppa:neovim-ppa/stable
-
+- apt update
-<pre> 
+- apt install ripgrep fd-find
-cd $HOME/.config
+- apt install neovim
-mv nvim nvim_old
+
-mkdir nvim
+# Kali
-cd nvim
+from root:
-git clone https://github.com/mgua/kickstart.nvim.git .
+- apt update
-</pre>
+- apt upgrade
-
+- apt install ripgrep fd-find 
-<p>Start nvim now, and you should see the automatic download and updates by lazy<p>
+- cd
-
+- mkdir neovim
-
+- cd neovim
-
+- curl -LO https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/latest/download/nvim.appimage
-
+- chmod +x nvim.appimage
-
+- cp nvim.appimage /usr/bin/
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+- ln -s /usr/bin/nvim.appimage /usr/bin/nvim
-
+- (To be completed)
+
+# Almalinux
+from root:
+- yum update
+- yum install ripgrep fd-find
+- yum install neovim
+
+## Kickstart Configuration (in non privileged user context)
+- Exit from nvim if open
+- cd $HOME/.config
+- mv nvim nvim_old
+- mkdir nvim
+- cd nvim
+- git clone https://github.com/mgua/kickstart.nvim.git .
+
+Start nvim now, and you should see the automatic download and updates by lazy
+
+--
+
+### Windows
+
+## Neovim preparation and Installation for windows
+actions to be executed from administrator user:
+1. Chocolatey package manager installation (see https://chocolatey.org/)
+- run the following from powershell admin
+- Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
+- close and reopen admin window
+2. Winget package manager installation ( see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/winget/ )
+- install winget from microsoft store
+3. from an administrator console, execute:
+- 
+
+
+## Kickstart Configuration (in non privileged user context)
+- Exit from nvim if open
+- cd $HOME/App.config
+- mv nvim nvim_old
+- mkdir nvim
+- cd nvim
+- git clone https://github.com/mgua/kickstart.nvim.git .
+
+--
 
 
 Kickstart.nvim targets *only* the latest ['stable'](https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/tag/stable) and latest ['nightly'](https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/tag/nightly) of Neovim. If you are experiencing issues, please make sure you have the latest versions.