Problem running Neovim on code-server Ubuntu 20.04

[mintgh]

I have Code-server running on Ubuntu 20.04, for some reasons when I installed Neovim, it said I needed to add the path to the extension executable file, now I don’t know which file should I point to, since there quite a few of .vim files in there. Also I get EACCESS error when I try to point the path to test out those .vim files, any helps would be appreciated

[jsjoeio]

Ah yes! I had trouble with this the other day too. It wants the path to the neovim executable. I think you should be able to get this by running which nvim

Then you'll need to update the value in Settings so the extension can find it.

[mintgh]

Hey thanks for helping. Using which nvim for me didn't work because I installed code-server using yarn and the way it saved files from code-server stuff is kinda weird(I consider myself to be a linux noob). Though I found the Nvim folder through this PATH: /home/[$USER]/.local/share/code-server/extensions/asvetliakov.vscode-neovim-0.0.83/vim. I then put the PATH into the setting:

But when I refresh the webpage to reload the extension, I would get this error:

Then I thought maybe the Vim folder was restricting access, so I ran chmod 777 for the folder and retry but still no luck.

TLDR;
Still not working :(

[im-coder-lg]

What @jsjoeio meant was that you first install the real Neovim on your computer and then run which nvim on the CLI. NVIM is the command for Neovim btw.
Once you get the binary path, enter that in your Settings page, and restart your session. Then, enjoy!

[jsjoeio]

Yes! What @im-coder-lg said. I think we're confusing two things.

You want the path to the executable for nvim, not the path to the extension. Does that make sense?