Open h4x3rotab opened 8 years ago
I've made a concept validation demo: https://github.com/h4x3rotab/neovim-dot-app/commit/a14129a6597c6fe755685e7ccd64d760aa0745f8
Here is how I tested it:
NVIM_LISTEN_ADDRESS=127.0.0.1:6669
on remote machine.ssh -L 6669:127.0.0.1:6669 hostname
.Currently it looks like a terminal emulator: no scroll bar, no native tabs, broken copy & paste support. However, it just works. I can even edit remote file with Youcompleteme plugin!
Nice work! This would be a great feature to support.
no scroll bar, no native tabs
Neovim.app never had these anyway :)
broken copy & paste support
Tricky... but not insurmountable.
As far as I know, lots of people need to work with gvim by ssh x11 forwarding. Because they need vim running on remote server and with modern gui. X11 forwarding is a ugly workaround. User experience become hell when network condition is bad.
I always want a client-server mode gvim: run a vim core on remote machine and run the gui part locally. This is hard to implement in traditional vim but I think it's possible with neovim. In my understanding, most of gui talk to nvim by rpc. Currently it looks like neovim-dot-app does rpc under unix pipe. So I'm wondering if we can make rpc running on socket, which enables remote ability for neovim gui.