NeoSFML

Neovim GUI based on SFML

Inititially developed for Windows. Compiling on Linux and Mac should be possible with some tweaking - code was written with portability in mind.

Maintenance and Instability

Project is not actively maintained. And it is experimental, serving as a stepping stone to https://github.com/grigorievich/Viy. Other GUIs can be found at https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Related-projects.

Installation instructions

1. Install Python 3.3.5.

   • Download at https://www.python.org/download/releases/3.3.5/

2. Install Pip for Python 3.3

   • Instructions: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4750806/how-do-i-install-pip-on-windows
   • In short
   • Download https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
   • Make sure Python33 is in your path. Or, if not, put get-pip.py in the Python33 folder. Run "python get-pip.py".

3. Install Python Neovim: python -m pip install neovim

4. Download and install Neovim for Windows. Make sure it's in your path.

   • Instructions: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Installing-Neovim

5. Download neosfml_0_6.zip from https://github.com/meatich/NeoSFML/releases/tag/0.6, extract and run it.

6. Keep in mind that NeoSFML comes with a utility called pipelist, employed by launcher.py for finding a running instance of Neovim. Especially keep this in mind if you want to build things yourself.

Compilation

• Boost's Locale library
• Python33
• SFML
• MinGW 4.9.2, earlier versions may work.