Feature: Give the option to use Neovim as a backend

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Feature: Give the option to use Neovim as a backend

Tylerc230 opened this issue 8 years ago · 10 comments

Neovim is able to be used as a headless backend without a UI. This means that it may be possible to route keypresses from xcode to neovim and show neovim's buffer in xcode. This would allow access to all vim plugins and built in features in Xcode.

Answer 1 · 2017-02-02T12:29:50.000Z

Yea that kind of thing is considered. Actually it is possible to pass all the buffer to Neovim or Vim and execute command and apply back the result to Xcode, but I think this is not really smart solution since this would be disable to use Xcode features like auto complete. That is the main reason I'm not doing it.

Answer 2 · 2017-02-03T00:09:30.000Z

Yeah makes sense. I guess the tradeoffs are using vim/neovim plugins in xcode but not xcode auto complete features.

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On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 4:29 AM, JugglerShu ***@***.***> wrote: Yea that kind of thing is considered. Actually it is possible to pass all the buffer to Neovim or Vim and execute command and apply back the result to Xcode, but I think this is not really smart solution since this would be disable to use Xcode features like auto complete. That is the main reason I'm not doing it. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1043 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAbytdpKcHseJlvKLrGmJQOaW44y65FJks5rYcw_gaJpZM4L0EDc> .

Answer 3 · 2017-09-14T17:28:57.000Z

I think it might be a great time to revisit this idea with the new architecture of xcode forcing your hand at a full rewrite? It would be really nice to have a full featured, full vim as a backing to xcode. Couldn't there be an intercept layer that dispatches xcode specific features before sending the buffer to neovim or having neovim act on the on disk buffer?

Answer 4 · 2017-09-14T22:00:57.000Z

Some of Xcode's completion engine is open source. It's a matter of creating the vim plugins for it.

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On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 10:28 AM fiveNinePlusR ***@***.***> wrote: I think it might be a great time to revisit this idea with the new architecture of xcode forcing your hand at a full rewrite? It would be really nice to have a full featured, full vim as a backing to xcode. Couldn't there be an intercept layer that dispatches xcode specific features before sending the buffer to neovim or having neovim act on the on disk buffer? — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1043 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAbytcjQFxeGcP6tR1ddFv57cRJWgCUUks5siWJbgaJpZM4L0EDc> .

Answer 5 · 2017-09-14T22:14:45.000Z

@Tylerc230 do you know where that is documented?

Answer 6 · 2017-09-14T23:03:12.000Z

https://github.com/apple/swift/tree/master/tools/SourceKit/docs <https://github.com/apple/swift/tree/master/tools/SourceKit/docs>

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Answer 7 · 2017-09-15T01:19:49.000Z

ah yeah. I have used sourcekitten for completion before for completion in emacs.

https://github.com/jpsim/SourceKitten

Answer 8 · 2017-09-15T02:22:41.000Z

Yep built in source kit. I would love to collaborate with some folks on building some vim plugins for swift.

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On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 6:19 PM fiveNinePlusR ***@***.***> wrote: ah yeah. I have used sourcekitten for completion before for completion in emacs. https://github.com/jpsim/SourceKitten — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1043 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAbytVXllCwLEHlH3lXYc_uujGWl6frVks5sidC-gaJpZM4L0EDc> .

Answer 9 · 2017-09-15T03:22:06.000Z

there is this https://github.com/mitsuse/autocomplete-swift

and https://github.com/keith/sourcekittendaemon.vim

Answer 10 · 2017-09-15T16:54:33.000Z

Yeah there's also deoplete-swift. I don't think either supports multiple files/Xcode workspaces

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