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I bought a license like 6 months ago and have tried a couple of times back and forth during this period. I thought this was exactly what I was looking for. A mo

I bought a license like 6 months ago and have tried a couple of times back and forth during this period. I thought this was exactly what I was looking for. A modern mix on Vim and VSCode. I was pretty disappointed though tbh. You can really just VSCode with the Vim extension, or just use actual Vim. I think there is space for a product like this though, so A for effort!

JNRowe 5y ago
Much like you, I think I'm probably the target audience for this. One of the things that stops me from using neovim - regardless of any changes I'd like - is the removal of gvim. I like my gvim candy; SVG icons in sign columns, better modifier support in maps, drag and drop when in command line, $things_ive_forgot_i_use. Likewise, I also believe the idea of onivim is worth a licence fee, even it turns out I can't get behind it. It just feels like one of those projects I want to see succeed, even if it isn't for me.
- atweiden 5y ago
  Onivim has a high chance of becoming the best heavyweight GUI Vim IDE distribution over the coming years. I bought a once-off lifetime commercial license a good while ago and now get nightly updates. I wish the team all the success in the world.
- xvilka 5y ago
  There are external NeoVim GUIs though, for example Neovide[1]. [1] https://github.com/Kethku/neovide https://github.com/Kethku/neovide
  - JNRowe 5y ago
    Yeah, I've tried a few. I can't quite put my finger on what is wrong, but the ones I've tried just don't feel right. gnvim¹ was the most usable for me. However, it isn't without problems for my use case. To use my earlier example, switching would mean patching fonts or using overrides in fonts.conf to fake the use of icons in signs. I did take another look just now², and there a few more for me to try out ;) ¹ https://github.com/vhakulinen/gnvim https://github.com/vhakulinen/gnvim ² https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Related-projects https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Related-projects
    - xvilka 5y ago
      They need to move abandoned projects into another table to avoid confusion.

JNRowe 5y ago

Much like you, I think I'm probably the target audience for this. One of the things that stops me from using neovim - regardless of any changes I'd like - is the removal of gvim. I like my gvim candy; SVG icons in sign columns, better modifier support in maps, drag and drop when in command line, $things_ive_forgot_i_use. Likewise, I also believe the idea of onivim is worth a licence fee, even it turns out I can't get behind it. It just feels like one of those projects I want to see succeed, even if it isn't for me.

atweiden 5y ago
Onivim has a high chance of becoming the best heavyweight GUI Vim IDE distribution over the coming years. I bought a once-off lifetime commercial license a good while ago and now get nightly updates. I wish the team all the success in the world.
xvilka 5y ago
There are external NeoVim GUIs though, for example Neovide[1]. [1] https://github.com/Kethku/neovide https://github.com/Kethku/neovide
- JNRowe 5y ago
  Yeah, I've tried a few. I can't quite put my finger on what is wrong, but the ones I've tried just don't feel right. gnvim¹ was the most usable for me. However, it isn't without problems for my use case. To use my earlier example, switching would mean patching fonts or using overrides in fonts.conf to fake the use of icons in signs. I did take another look just now², and there a few more for me to try out ;) ¹ https://github.com/vhakulinen/gnvim https://github.com/vhakulinen/gnvim ² https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Related-projects https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Related-projects
  - xvilka 5y ago
    They need to move abandoned projects into another table to avoid confusion.