Eovim is the Enlightened Neovim. That's just an EFL GUI client for Neovim.

Status

Eovim is still in development, but it is stable enough to be used for your daily programming. See the Wiki for details.

Why Eovim?

Eovim is written in plain C, with the amazing EFL. You have great added value to the text-only neovim with a minimal runtime overhead. No need to spawn a web browser to use it! If you don't like the externalized UI, it can be turned off, or changed via themes.

Have a problem/question/suggestion? Feel free to open an issue. Join the club! You are more than welcome to contribute. The file CONTRIBUTING.MD describes the processes more into details.

Installation

Eovim requires the following components to be installed on your system before you can start hacking around. See the Wiki for details.

• EFL: this framework of libraries is packaged in most of the GNU/Linux distributions and on macOS. Do not forget to install the efl-devel package which provides Eina among others.
• msgpack-c: this serialization library is not widely packaged, but is mandatory to communicate with Neovim.
• Neovim version 0.2.0 or greater (earlier versions have not been tested),
• CMake.

After making sure you have installed the dependencies aforementioned, run the following installation procedure:

mkdir -p build && cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
cmake --build .
cmake --build . --target install # Possibly as root (i.e. via sudo)

If we want to run eovim without installing it, please refer to the Wiki page Developing Eovim.

Usage

eovim [options] [files...]

Eovim command-line usage is exactly the same than what Vim or Neovim provides. You can run eovim --help or man eovim to get more help about how to use its command-line form. It basically adds options on top the ones provided by Neovim. If a command is not understood by Eovim itself, it will be passed to Neovim.

The man page will give you greater details, and especially will give information about the Vim Runtime modifications that are operated by Eovim.

When eovim starts, it spawns an instance of Neovim. If it happens that nvim is not in your PATH or if you want to use an alterate binary of Neovim, you can feed it to eovim with the option --nvim.

License

Eovim is MIT-licensed. See the LICENSE file for details. Files in data/themes/img have been taken from terminology or the EFL and are not original creations. Portions of the Eovim logo have been borrowed from the original Neovim logo. Eovim's logo should be understood as a tribute to Neovim.