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GoNeovim is a Neovim GUI written in Go, using a Qt binding for Go. This repository forked from the original Gonvim for the purpose of maintenance and enhancement.

Features

All of the features are optional. You can use it like a plain nvim or as a nvim with a rich UI.

• Fast (faster than neovim-qt)
• Cross-platform
• Modern Text Editor Features
  • Markdown Preview
  • Minimap
  • Smooth scroll (with MacOS touch pad)
  • Fuzzy Finder
  • Workspace feature which manages multiple nvim
  • External File Explorer
  • Scrollbar
  • Support Ligature
  • Built-in Indent guide
  • Support High DPI scaling
• Features as neovim GUI
  • Externalizable tabline, popupmenu, wildmenu, cmdline, messsages
  • Support gui option: guifont, guifontwide, guifont=*, linespace, guicursor. You don't need neovim-gui-shim
  • Support mouse selections
  • Supports border drawing and shadow drawing of float window
  • Independent font settings per window (currently experimental)
  • Attach feature to a remote nvim
• Basic feature as a Text Editor
  • Support multi byte character
  • Drag and Drop files
  • Support InputMethod Editor (for east asian users)
• Miscellaneous
  • Supports application window transparency
  • Desktop Notification of the messages emitted nvim

Screenshots

• Workspaces, external file explorer
• Fuzzy Finder
• Markdown preview
• Minimap
• Indentguide, display ligatures(Fira Code)
• Transparent app window, Transparent message window
• Independent font settings per window

Requirements

• Neovim (v0.4.4 or later)

See Installing Neovim

Getting Started

Pre-built packages for Windows, MacOS, and Linux are found at the Releases page.

Or you can get the latest binary from Github Actions CI. See Actions page.

Usage

See wiki

ToDo

• Add test

• Improve startup time

• Add tree view for external file explorer

• Add Git integration for external file explorer

• Improve Imput Method Editor(IME) feature

In the current implementation, it is not possible to highlight the keyword being converted in the input method input. At the moment I have no idea about how to improve this

• Support GPU rendering

• Support neovim ui ext_statusline

Development

• Development

Similar projects

• Gnvim
• Veonim

Credits

• Gonvim was created by dzhou121 (https://github.com/dzhou121/gonvim)