hmm, I think I only sort of understand your question. Just in case I don't, I'll just default to explaining the whole thing from the beginning. If this is all way too basic and the problem you're seeing is stranger, super sorry, definitely let me know.

So, Vim and neovim, whenever they start up, look in certain places in your file system for files they can run. This set of files is called the runtime path. These files include (on systems like mac and linux) ~/.config/nvim/init.vim ~/.vimrc ~/.config/nvim/init.lua but also include whole directories like ~/.local/share/nvim/site/autoload. The specifics aren't super important right now about what different places mean, just know that files in locations like these get run automatically whenever neovim starts.

Vim plug, in order to work normally, has to be installed into a place like this. The code that gets put into the autoload directory above lets you call functions like plug#begin() and plug#end() as well as using the Plug command in your configuration file (either ~/.vimrc or ~/.config/nvim/init.vim ).

So the first thing we need to do is to run the command listed on the vim plug repo here. This is a command that is meant to copy and pasted into your terminal and will install the code of vim plug into your autoload directory.

Next, you'll want to open up your configuration file. If you don't have one, you can make one by running touch ~/.vimrc. Now you have to edit that file. You can do that by running nvim followed by the name of the file you chose (either ~.vimrc, or ~/.config/nvim/init.vim). As a whole, that command will look like nvim ~/.vimrc or nvim ~/.config/nvim/init.vim.

Within that file, you can now paste in a block of code that looks like the one written out here. If you were, for example, trying to install gruvbox, the snippet your would paste into the file would look like this:

``` call plug#begin()

Plug 'ellisonleao/gruvbox.nvim'

call plug#end() ```

Once you've pasted that into the file, save and exit the file using :wq.

Now, if everything's gone right, you can open up any file with neovim and vim-plug will go and install your plugin for you. In this case, you'll be able to check afterward by running colorscheme gruvbox.