[empath75]

The simple answer is probably the correct one. It's not included by default in any distributions.

[cosarara97]

Some distros do have it in the official repos https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Installing-Neovim

[executesorder66]

Yes, but it is not installed as the default text editor. Unlike vi/vim/nano

[cosarara97]

The default is usually vi or nano, not full vim. So installing vim or neovim should take about the same effort.

[vopi]

In what distros? Ubuntu comes with vim.

[pcmonk]

Yeah, but it's vim.tiny. They don't even alias it to `vim` because it's not full vim.

[cryptarch]

Debian Stable (without a DE) only comes with nano AFAIK.

[gh02t]

It has vi in the base system, specifically `vim-tiny`. Vi is mandated by POSIX, so pretty much every distro includes some minimal version of it in the base system. `nvi` is also used sometimes instead.

[jimktrains2]

I'd bet good money both ed and vi are there as they are specified by POSIX iirc.

[baldfat]

It's in the official repos for many distros including OpenSUSE.

I actually am fixing up the install documents even though I don't use Neovim

[ptero]

Debian (albeit only stretch) has it.

[JdeBP]

... and that's version 0.1.7 .