mars0i
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1 year ago This is not what you're requestiong, @matthewd is requesting, and you may know this, but in case it's helpful, it's possible to open floating windows as children of a main window:
https://github.com/akiyosi/goneovim/wiki/FAQ#how-can-i-create-an-external-float-window
These floating windows can then be dragged to a desired location on the screen. They are not regular nvim windows for editing though. You can't edit in them, and if you type :, the prompt appears in the main window not in the float window.
The standard macOS Dock behaviour depends on the assumption that all of a given application's windows are grouped together, e.g. allowing
<Cmd-Tab>to cycle between applications, and<Cmd-`>to cycle between windows of the active application. (Honestly, the ability to separately cluster my editor and terminal sessions in this way is the main reason I prefer a GUI Vim.)Goneovim currently starts entirely separate instances (both when run from the command line, and when using the 'New Instance' option on the dock icon).
I guess this is probably a big change, so may not be practical, but IMO it would be ideal if it was able to behave in the more OS-standard fashion -- perhaps by adding a singleton parent process that could handle some minimal OS communication and then leaving the bulk of the activity to existing-shaped children, somehow?