GNvim, neovim GUI aiming for rich code editing experience without any unnecessary web bloat.
GNvim has been quite stable for the past 6+ months and it has been my daily driver since last August, but ymmv). I try to add new features as I find time and any help is welcome.
TL;DR to get started on Ubuntu 18.04 after cloning this repo and assuming you have rust tool chain installed:
$ sudo apt install libgtk-3-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev
$ # Run (unoptimized version) without installing
$ GNVIM_RUNTIME_PATH=./runtime cargo run
$ # Install
$ make
$ sudo make install
- No electron (!), build on GTK.
- Ligatures
- Custom cursor tooltip feature to display markdown documents. Useful for implementing features like hover information or signature help (see gnvim-lsp).
- A lot of the nvim external features implemented
- Popupmenu
- Own view for
preview
(:h completeopt
).
- Own view for
- Tabline
- Cmdline
- Wildmenu
- Popupmenu
More externalized features will follow as they are implemented for neovim.
GNvim requires
- Stable rust to compile
- Latest nvim master (gnvim 0.1.0 works with nvim 0.3.4)
- Gtk version 3.18 or higher
On some systems, Gtk packages doesn't include development files. On Ubuntu 18.04, you'll need the following ones:
$ sudo apt install libgtk-3-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev
For other systems, see requirements listed by gtk-rs project here.
Note that you'll need the libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev
package too.
There are some benchmarks for internal data structures, but to run those you'll
need nightly rust. To run those benchmarks, use cargo bench --features=unstable
command.
You're required to have rust tool chain available. Once you have that, clone
this repo and run make build
followed by sudo make install
.
TL;DR: Without installing:
GNVIM_RUNTIME_PATH=./runtime cargo run
GNvim requires some runtime files to be present and loaded by nvim to work
properly. By default, gnvim will look this files from /usr/local/share/gnvim/runtime
,
but this can be changed by GNVIM_RUNTIME_PATH
environment variable.
By default, gnvim will use nvim
to run neovim. If you want to change that,
you can use --nvim
flag (e.g. gnvim --nvim=/path/to/nvim
).
For debugging purposes, there is --print-nvim-cmd
flag to tell gnvim to print
the executed nvim command.
See gnvim --help
for all the cli arguments.