[Request] glrnvim

[REmerald]

Link to the package base(s) in the AUR

glrnvim

Utility this package has for you

(https://github.com/beeender/glrnvim)
The best alternative to the other neovim frontends (at least in the repos/chaotic):

• Wraps neovim in your favourite terminal (supports alacritty, kitty and a few more), thus supports your terminal's features: keybinds, gpu acceleration, etc.
• Has its own config file which lets you easily change the font, neovim binary path (e.g. to lunarvim's .local/bin/lvim), etc. without messing up your terminal/neovim configuration and adding extra scripts/desktop files to launch e.g. lvim.
• Had a recent release: actively developed/maintained.
• The develover is also the package's maintainer: unlikelihood for the package to be orphan/outdated.
• Fully relies on the terminal for the UI, thus doesn't have to be developed too actively to fix bugs.
• So, it won't be too big of a deal (at least for a relatively long time) even if the project will be partially/fully abandoned.
• Works flawlessly.
• neovide is currently broken on most wayland sessions.
• neovim-qt prints a weird annoying message about monospace family fonts.
• goneovim-bin (at least from chaotic) is broken too: needs an old missing outdated library; even if satisfied, prints warnings.
• This leaves with almost no other good alternatives: gnvim and neovim-gtk have annoying useless decorations; other similar projects are abandoned.

Do you consider the package(s) to be useful for every Chaotic-AUR user?

No, but for a great amount.

Do you consider the package to be useful for feature testing/preview?

• [ ] Yes

Have you tested if the package builds in a clean chroot?

• [ ] Yes

Does the package's license allow redistributing it?

YES!

Have you searched the issues to ensure this request is unique?

• [X] YES!

Have you read the README to ensure this package is not banned?

• [X] YES!

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[Technetium1]

@REmerald Just to be clear, goneovim-bin is nonfunctional [AUR-side problem], and should be removed?

[REmerald]

goneovim-bin is nonfunctional [AUR-side problem]

I meant if you install the missing library chaotic-aur/libtiff5 (not present in the goneovim-bin package dependencies), it will launch and "work", but with some issues:

goneovim: /usr/lib/libtiff.so.5: no version information available (required by goneovim)
/usr/bin/goneovim: /usr/lib/libtiff.so.5: no version information available (required by /usr/bin/goneovim)
open /home/remorin/.goneovim/setting.toml: no such file or directory
qt.qpa.wayland: Failed to load client buffer integration: "wayland-egl"
qt.qpa.wayland: Available client buffer integrations: ()

And I also noticed it displays some of the glyphs wrong. Maybe it has more, I didn't test it, just lauched it with a custom neovim config.

should be removed?

I am not an expert, so I don't really know what's the right decision.

If you ask my opinion, I agree that this package is broken/unfunctional. It should at least be updated to use libtiff.so.6 from libtiff instead of libtiff.so.5 from libtiff5. The project seems to relatively active though.
Btw, if you will decide to not remove it, it'll be a good idea to rename it from goneovim-bin to just goneovim, to make the packages less confusing, because this's not AUR anymore, everything here is a binary.

Just to be clear

So, everything else ok, especially glrnvim?