Add Run nvim With Factory Defaults as a Neovim TIL

README.md

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 - [Allow Neovim To Copy/Paste With System Clipboard](neovim/allow-neovim-to-copy-paste-with-system-clipboard.md)
 - [Create User Command To Open Init Config](neovim/create-user-command-to-open-init-config.md)
 - [Run A Lua Statement From The Command Prompt](neovim/run-a-lua-statement-from-the-command-prompt.md)
+- [Run nvim With Factory Defaults](neovim/run-nvim-with-factory-defaults.md)
 - [Set Up Vim-Plug With Neovim](neovim/set-up-vim-plug-with-neovim.md)
 
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neovim/run-nvim-with-factory-defaults.md

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+# Run nvim With Factory Defaults
+
+Most of the fun of using Neovim is tailoring it to your exact needs with custom
+configurations. Your configuration can be made up of environment variables,
+`init.lua`/`init.vim`, and user directories on the `runtimepath`.
+
+Perhaps though, you want to load neovim with its "factory defaults". You want
+to ignore all your custom config and your _shada_ (shared data) file. I wanted
+to do just that recently to verify that neovim has the `ft-manpage` plugin
+enabled by default (as opposed to enabled somewhere in the labryinth of my
+config files).
+
+The `--clean` flag does just this. It loads built-in plugins, but none of the
+user defined config.
+
+```bash
+$ nvim --clean
+```
+
+This is different than `nvim -u NONE` which excludes all plugins, including
+built-in ones.
+
+See `man nvim` and `:help --clean` for more details.