Neovim for Beginners — GUI
In this article, let’s explore modern GUIs for Neovim.
This article is part of the Neovim for Beginners series.
The Neovim configuration files are available in this repository.
Getting Started
Until now we only use the Neovim terminal user interface (TUI). Neovim is a project that seeks to aggressively refactor Vim, and one of the objectives is to maximize extensibility.
Neovim supports a plugin UI architecture to reduce its code base and delegate GUI implementation to external clients. The client(s) control the Neovim nvim process via a msgpack-rpc API, allowing them to
- Execute Vim commands
- Evaluate Vimscript expressions
- Manipulate buffers, windows, and tabs
- Receive/handle editor events
We will review several interesting Neovim GUI clients implemented in different programming languages.
Neovide
Neovide is a simple graphical user interface for Neovim developed in Rust.
It provides all standard full features of Neovim. Beyond that, there are some visual niceties.
