neovim-cmd

Send commands to neovim from :terminal.

This project is a way for me to learn rust and experiment with the neovim API. It is in early development stage and not ready for production.

It is heavily inspired by neovim-remote which has more features, and probably less bugs.

Usage

USAGE:
    neovim-cmd [SUBCOMMAND]

FLAGS:
    -h, --help       Prints help information
    -V, --version    Prints version information

SUBCOMMANDS:
    cd
    edit
    help      Prints this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
    rename

Features

Use it as your commit message editor:

git config core.editor '~/bin/neovim-cmd edit --wait'

Use it to synchronize $PWD with :tchdir:

function cd() {
    builtin cd "$@";
    # do a vim :tcd if we managed to cd and we are withing neovim
    if [[ -n ${NVIM_LISTEN_ADDRESS} ]]; then
        ~/bin/neovim-cmd cd "$@"
    fi
}
export cd

Inspired from Yazgoo's blog post

Installation

Install neovim 0.3.x. This is not compatible with neovim 0.3.x. See neovim instructions for details.
Install the rust toolchain with rustup.rs
```
curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh
```

Clone the source code:

git clone https://github.com/Makohoek/neovim-cmd neovim-cmd
cd neovim-cd

Make sure you have the latest stable version of cargo and friends:
```
rustup override set stable
rustup update stable
```
Build for release:
```
cargo build --release
```
Copy the binary to a folder in your $PATH:
```
cp target/release/neovim-cmd ~/bin
```

makohoek/neovim-cmd

neovim-cmd

Usage

Features

Installation

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