After you've installed nvim
do an alias so nvim is called automatically:
alias vim=nvim
Apparently the folder ~/.vim
needs to be mapped to ~/.config/nvim
since that's where nvim lives,
then also the .vimrc
to the init.vim
(recommend: back it up first just in case)
ln -s ~/.vim ~/.config/nvim
ln -s ~/.vimrc ~/.config/nvim/init.vim