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Nvui: A NeoVim GUI written in C++ and Qt

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Re: Nvui: A NeoVim GUI written in C++ and Qt

#21

Post by Benjamin_Dobell »

chrismorgan wrote: post #16
lambdaba wrote: post #8

The window animations are really nice: https://github.com/rohit-px2/nvui/blob/main/assets/display/v... I wonder if it's possible to reduce duration slightly. Personally I find animations useful and a great improvement to UX but I prefer as short durations as possible. I also set 0.5x animation duration / scale on Android and it makes it feel much snappier, but don't like outright disabling them.

Eww, a 20MB GIF with harsh dithering artefacts. And then another 22MB in two more GIFs. All in the repository. (a) GIF is not the right format here, use a video format because it’ll produce a visually superior result (proper colour, no dithering needed—not that it actually is even with animated GIFs) and much more usable result (not autoplaying if the user agent’s configuration says not to, allowing scrubbing, showin…

Last I checked Github doesn't support embedded videos.

It's far from ideal, and I doubt anyone is claiming otherwise, but GIFs in Github READMEs are entirely standard practice.

EDIT: Well, there you go. Video was introduced within Github this year: https://github.blog/2021-05-13-video-uploads-available-githu...

Re: Nvui: A NeoVim GUI written in C++ and Qt

#22

Post by notthemessiah »

auxym wrote: post #5
teamspirit wrote: post #2

This looks very interesting. Are there any advantages to using it as opposed to neovim in a terminal? I guess my question can be posed to any gui text editor. Still, nice project!

I have not tried this one yet, but what I'd like to see in a nvim gui: - Splits I can drag around to move and resize with a mouse - "Native" window tabs instead of terminal-style tabs - A gvim-style menu bar with some operations for which I can't be bothered to remember the key combination. So, overall, mostly mouse support and better discoverability. I've tried a few though and haven't really found what I'm looking…

Sounds like neovim-gtk has 2/3 (you can resize splits with the mouse, but you can't move them), but unfortunately, it's infrequently updated, sometimes I experience glitches, and it sometimes fails to build.

https://github.com/daa84/neovim-gtk/

Re: Nvui: A NeoVim GUI written in C++ and Qt

#23

Post by chrismorgan »

Benjamin_Dobell wrote: post #21
chrismorgan wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Eww, a 20MB GIF with harsh dithering artefacts. And then another 22MB in two more GIFs. All in the repository. (a) GIF is not the right format here, use a video format because it’ll produce a visually superior result (proper colour, no dithering needed—not that it actually is even with animated GIFs) and much more usable result (not autoplaying if the user agent’s configuration says not to, allowing scrubbing, showin…

Last I checked Github doesn't support embedded videos. It's far from ideal, and I doubt anyone is claiming otherwise, but GIFs in Github READMEs are entirely standard practice. EDIT: Well, there you go. Video was introduced within Github this year: https://github.blog/2021-05-13-video-uploads-available-githu...

Even when GitHub didn’t support embedded videos, large GIFs are awful enough that I insist that they had no place in READMEs, whether internal or external to the repository. In that time, it was far better to make it a link to something external.

Re: Nvui: A NeoVim GUI written in C++ and Qt

#24

Post by jchook »

auxym wrote: post #5
teamspirit wrote: post #2

This looks very interesting. Are there any advantages to using it as opposed to neovim in a terminal? I guess my question can be posed to any gui text editor. Still, nice project!

I have not tried this one yet, but what I'd like to see in a nvim gui: - Splits I can drag around to move and resize with a mouse - "Native" window tabs instead of terminal-style tabs - A gvim-style menu bar with some operations for which I can't be bothered to remember the key combination. So, overall, mostly mouse support and better discoverability. I've tried a few though and haven't really found what I'm looking…

> Splits I can drag around to move and resize with a mouse

You can already use the mouse to resize splits in neovim, :set mouse+=a

> "Native" window tabs instead of terminal-style tabs

Which features would "native" tabs provide that aren't already available?

> A gvim-style menu bar with some operations for which I can't be bothered to remember the key combination.

Which operations would you put under the menu?

Re: Nvui: A NeoVim GUI written in C++ and Qt

#25

Post by jchook »

parhamn wrote: post #14

I love vim, but I can no longer see the case for pure-vim (besides devops/infra work where the most basic vim setup is usually enough) in the world of IDEs + Vim mode. Ive been down the rabbit hole of setting vim’s code intelligence up (ale and all that), in the end it felt brittle and not good (vs perfect completion for golang/typescript in my IDE). So Im curious, whats the case for going pure windowed vim like this…

Coc[1] might change your mind.

Neovim 0.5 now has a built-in language server, and 0.6 will have even more language features available via tree-sitter integration. The best is yet to come.

1. https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim

Re: Nvui: A NeoVim GUI written in C++ and Qt

#26

Post by rockwotj »

Benjamin_Dobell wrote: post #21
chrismorgan wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Eww, a 20MB GIF with harsh dithering artefacts. And then another 22MB in two more GIFs. All in the repository. (a) GIF is not the right format here, use a video format because it’ll produce a visually superior result (proper colour, no dithering needed—not that it actually is even with animated GIFs) and much more usable result (not autoplaying if the user agent’s configuration says not to, allowing scrubbing, showin…

Last I checked Github doesn't support embedded videos. It's far from ideal, and I doubt anyone is claiming otherwise, but GIFs in Github READMEs are entirely standard practice. EDIT: Well, there you go. Video was introduced within Github this year: https://github.blog/2021-05-13-video-uploads-available-githu...

I thought that embedding videos only works in issues and PRs, not Readmes?

Re: Nvui: A NeoVim GUI written in C++ and Qt

#29

Post by rjzzleep »

Benjamin_Dobell wrote: post #21
chrismorgan wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Eww, a 20MB GIF with harsh dithering artefacts. And then another 22MB in two more GIFs. All in the repository. (a) GIF is not the right format here, use a video format because it’ll produce a visually superior result (proper colour, no dithering needed—not that it actually is even with animated GIFs) and much more usable result (not autoplaying if the user agent’s configuration says not to, allowing scrubbing, showin…

Last I checked Github doesn't support embedded videos. It's far from ideal, and I doubt anyone is claiming otherwise, but GIFs in Github READMEs are entirely standard practice. EDIT: Well, there you go. Video was introduced within Github this year: https://github.blog/2021-05-13-video-uploads-available-githu...

No idea why he's getting downvoted but megabytes of GIFs absolutely don't belong in a code repo. Author could have just put a screenshot in there put the video inside the github .wiki.git repo.

EDIT: didn't think I have to clarify this, but when I say put a screenshot, I mean "A"(1) screenshot, if necessary.

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