Neovide - a Neovim Client in Rust

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Anyone seen Neovide? Looks pretty neat!

This is a simple graphical user interface for Neovim (an aggressively refactored and updated Vim editor). Where possible there are some graphical improvements, but functionally it should act like the terminal UI.

https://github.com/neovide/neovide/raw/main/assets/AnimatedCursor.gif

https://github.com/neovide/neovide/raw/main/assets/AnimatedWindows.gif

https://github.com/neovide/neovide/raw/main/assets/Railgun.gif

Would be cool if Onivim added some of these animations too :003:

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Actually I haven’t, and it’s VERY possible I’ll use it! Thanks for bringing it up for attention.

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It looks like it might be nice when pairing with someone as it can sometimes be hard to follow other people using Vim. For myself though, I think the animations would be distracting.

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I thought that might be the case too… but I kinda like it :lol: It’s a nice visual feedback imo - give it a try you might change your mind :003:

Let us know what you think of it Dimi! :023:

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You can achieve similar caret animations in VSCode by adding the following to settings.json:
"editor.cursorSmoothCaretAnimation": true,

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