Install neovim

Neovim version 8 availabe as current package

pkg install neovim

Neovim treesitter

Treesitter provides excellent language syntax parsing and highlighting and is a very attractive feature of the recent neovim releases. Treesitter is a major attraction, bringing in a new audience for Neovim.

The nvim-treesitter package is included in the practicalli/neovim-config-redux configuration.

C Compiler

Install C compiler for neovim-treesitter, to compile a parser for each specific programming language.

pkg install clang

gcc is not packaged for Termux, although there are guides to install gcc if preferred. clang has proved to be capable of creating the parsers used in the Practicalli configuration.

Searching files

Telescope and other packages that involve searching for files recommend using ripgrep, a highly optomised tool for finding files on the operating system.

pkg install ripgrep

[optional] nodejs

Optional. Only if node.js is required as a Neovim provider and JavaScript or ClojureScript development is to be done.

pkg install nodejs