Advanced mode: use context to send to headless neovim?

[BlueDrink9]

The v2 project looks absolutely awesome. Would you be willing to look into sending the context you can obtain to a headless neovim, and reading out the result, rather than possibly-imperfectly duplicating the correct behavior in lua? It seems like it would be a much more long-term sustainable approach, and would give the user the benefit of all the neovim tools, configurations and plugins?

[dbalatero]

Yes! This is my v3 plan haha. I think I should at least proof of concept it next before moving forward with any more imperfect implementations (and believe me, they are!)

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[BlueDrink9]

Excellent, glad to hear. I'm working on my own imperfect, since X11 doesn't have any general-text emulators, but mine's more OS-generic so I envy being able to access the context.

[dbalatero]

Yeah totally. In testing on Mac, the latency to copy to the clipboard, read it out, reset the cursors, etc is untenable, in case you go that route. The v1 I did basically translates motions and operators into os-available hot keys (alt+left to go back a word, etc) and fires them which gets you an imperfect but pretty usable basic set of Vim commands!

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[BlueDrink9]

I was considering clipboard, good to know about. Damn. That being said, if you only need it occasionally I'm hoping it isn't so bad. Mine will be even worse I imagine, because of the extra os-independent layer.

Yeah, I'm broadly going down the v1 route. I might look at how you've done your maps some time.

[dbalatero]

@BlueDrink9 I'm working on the neovim client version, and I have it passing keys pressed over RPC to Neovim: https://github.com/dbalatero/VimMode.spoon/compare/nvim

It's a mess right now but I'm just trying to get something basic working.

Have you looked into the accessibilty APIs on linux? This might provide you access to cursor position and line values: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistive_Technology_Service_Provider_Interface

[alok]

@dbalatero would any of the updates in nvim since last year help with this? i'd be willing to sponsor this for up to $200.