Interesting, if he's architected it for that purpose, it doesn't have to solely be console based. Neovim separated the client and server parts, and there are a

Interesting, if he's architected it for that purpose, it doesn't have to solely be console based. Neovim separated the client and server parts, and there are a host of clients (QT, HTML/Atom, etc) including the canonical one, from the docs: When compiled with the |+clientserver| option, Vim can act as a command server. It accepts messages from a client and executes them. At the same time, Vim can function as a client and send commands to a Vim server. https://neovim.io/doc/user/remote.html https://neovim.io/doc/user/remote.html Maybe Kakoune does the same, I haven't checked. I also second the first child's note that being console based is a feature.