knt419 / gonvim

Neovim GUI written in Golang, using a Golang qt backend

Gonvim

Gonvim is a Neovim GUI written in Golang, using a Golang qt backend.

This repository forked from the original Gonvim for the purpose of maintenance and enhancement.

Table of contents

• Features
• Getting started
• Configurations
• Development
• Contributing
• Similar Projects
• License
• Credits

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Features

• Fuzzy Finder
• Markdown Preview
• MiniMap
• Dein.vim GUI
• Remote attachment

Getting Started

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

Note: MacOS or Linux users need to install neovim and deploy nvim under the $PATH.
Installing Neovim

• MacOS 🍏

gonvim.app looks for the nvim process from the following.

/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin

Deployment example:

cd /path/to
curl -LO https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/download/nightly/nvim-macos.tar.gz
tar xf nvim-macos.tar.gz
ln -s /path/to/bin/nvim /usr/local/bin/nvim

• Linux 🐧

Execute /path/to/Gonvim-0.X.X-linux/gonvim.sh

• Windows 🏞

Execute /path/to/Gonvim-0.X.X-windows/gonvim.exe

Configurations

application	config file
Gonvim (GUI frontend of neovim)	~/.gonvim/setting.toml
Neovim	$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/nvim/init.vim

where the default value of $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is the below.

OS	$XDG_CONFIG_HOME
Unix	~/.config
Windows	~/AppData/Local

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• neovim configuration for gonvim

The sample configuration is gonvim-init.vim

• gonvim configuration

For details of ~/.gonvim/setting.toml, See wiki

Development

• Development

Contributing

Gonvim welcomes contribution. If you want to add your changes to the Gonvim, Please following steps

1. Fork this repository
2. Create a branch for your contribution
3. Add contributions to the branch
4. Create a pull request against the master branch of the Gonvim repository.

Similar projects

• Oni
• Veonim

License

Gonvim is released under MIT license

Credits

• Gonvim was created by dzhou121 (https://github.com/dzhou121/gonvim)
• Gonvim application icon was made using gopher-vector made by Takuya Ueda (https://twitter.com/tenntenn). The original gopher was designed by Renee French http://reneefrench.blogspot.com/.