Nvim-Surfers

Are you a complete degenerate with a TikTok-fried brain? Are you unable to pay attention for more than the length of a TikTok and yet want to become a programmer? Are you afraid your goldfish-like attention span is going to inhibit your chances of getting a software engineering job? Fear not, for the solution is here. With this plugin, you can now watch Subway Surfers gameplay straight from a Neovim split.

Installation

Dependencies

The plugin requires libcaca and mplayer to be installed locally. Please, install those using your distro's package manager.

sudo pacman -S libcaca mplayer

Plugin Installation

Just install the plugin using your favorite package manager. No further setup necessary.

local plugins = {
    {
        'fpeterek/nvim-surfers',
        config = function()
            require('nvim-surfers').setup({
                use_tmux = false,
            })
        end
    },
}

require("lazy").setup(plugins)

Usage

Run

:Surf

Alternatively, you can setup a keyboard shortcut in case Subway Surfers gameplay is absolutely essential for your survival.

vim.api.nvim_set_keymap('n', '<leader>ss', '<cmd>Surf<cr>', { noremap=true })

Disclaimer

The built-in terminal inside of Neovim is not fast enough to render the video properly and trying to run the command will mess up your Nvim instance, forcing you to kill the entire terminal emulator and restart Nvim.

Tmux integration

Using the built-in Nvim terminal didn't work all that great. However, we can also use Tmux and create a new Tmux split which will display the Subway Surfers gameplay. This works a lot better and the gameplay playback is now completely smooth, however, Nvim needs to be run from a Tmux session to allow us to create a new Tmux split.

Configuration

local plugins = {
    {
        'fpeterek/nvim-surfers',
        config = function()
            require('nvim-surfers').setup({
                use_tmux = true,
            })
        end
    },
}

require("lazy").setup(plugins)

Running Nvim from Tmux

tmux new -s my-tmux-session
nvim

Then, just launch the playback using :Surf, just like you're used to.

Just note that the command will create a new Tmux split and you will have to jump from the newly created Tmux split back into your Neovim split to use Nvim again.