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+# installs stable nvim
+
+wget --output-document ~/nvim.tar.gz https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/download/stable/nvim-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
+tar xvf ~/nvim.tar.gz > /dev/null
+mv nvim-linux-x86_64/ nvim/
+rm nvim.tar.gz