Neovide - a Neovim Client in Rust

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.

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:

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

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