goneovim

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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, many other neovim GUI's)
• Cross-platform
• Modern Text Editor Features
  • Markdown Preview
  • Minimap
  • Smooth scroll
  • 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 people)
• 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 (v0.4.3 or later)

See Installing Neovim

Getting Started

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