How to open nvim in the terminal?

[ukch]

Thanks for this project. I am a long-time vim/neovim user. I have recently switched to using a Mac and am enjoying having a nice GUI for Mac OS. However, one problem I have is that when I want to quickly open a file in nvim in the terminal I am seemingly unable to do so (I can use vimr /path/to/file to open in the GUI, but sometimes I just want a quick terminal session)

Are the developers of this project aware of any way to open the embedded nvim in the terminal? I am aware that I could just do brew install nvim but that seems like an unnecessary duplication, since I already have a working nvim on my machine.

[azzsh]

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[bronzehedwick]

@ukch I think what you're looking for is the neovim-remote project.

[kuntau]

To install Neovim just brew install neovim and open with nvim <file>

[qvacua]

VimR does not ship with a Neovim binary which can be used on its own. Thus, you have to install nvim separately.

[ukch]

@qvacua Can I ask why you have decided not to include a useable nvim binary as part of this project? It seems very wasteful to have to compile and install a whole new version of nvim when we already have one built into vimr...

[bronzehedwick]

I can think of at least one reason: shipping the neovim binary means that Vimr can focus on supporting only the version shipped, and not any potential neovim version/configuration the user has installed.