GNvim is a Neovim GUI aiming for a rich code editing experience without any unnecessary web bloat. The developer strives to achieve a similar coding experience as vscode providers but with native stack.
GNvim uses GTK3, a free and open-source cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces.
GNvim is also free and open source software.
Key Features
- Built with GTK.
- Simple and unobtrusive.
- Ligatures support.
- Animated cursor.
- Custom cursor tooltip feature to display Markdown documents. This helps implement features like hover information or signature help.
- Many nvim external features are implemented:
- Popupmenu.
- Own view for preview (:h completeopt).
- Tabline.
- Cmdline.
- Wildmenu.
- Popupmenu.
- Support for coc.nvim and LanguageClient-neovim completion icons.
- Supports floating point font sizes.
- Non-blinking cursor.
- Visual indicator for modified buffers in tabs.
- Support for setting fonts via guifont option. GNvim also supports linespace.
Website: github.com/vhakulinen/gnvim
Support: Wiki, Gitter
Developer: Ville Hakulinen
License: MIT License
GNvim is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| Neovim GUIs | Language | |
|---|---|---|
| Neovim-qt | Neovim client library and GUI using Qt5 | C++ |
| GoNeovim | Forked from Gonvim. Uses Qt binding | Go |
| FVim | Uses the Avalonia XAML-based UI framework | F# |
| Neovide | No nonsense client | Rust |
| GNvim | Rich GUI without any web bloat | Rust |
| NVUI | Modern frontend | C++ |
| glrnvim | GPU-accelerated Neovim GUI | Rust |
| NyaoVim | Web-enhanced extensible Neovim frontend | TypeScript |
| neovim-gtk | Uses gtk-rs bindings | Rust |
| Neoray | Uses GLFW and OpenGL bindings | Go |
| Envim | Electron-based frontend for Neovim | TypeScript |
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