Consider switching to neovim

[jabrouwer82]

A lot of my vimrc is pretty vim8 specific, so hopefully neovim isn't any nicer than vim8

[jabrouwer82]

https://neovim.io/

[jabrouwer82]

There doesn't seem to be a good portable gui option for neovim. The terminal emulator is significantly better though. I'm not sure there's enough value to switch since I'll have to significantly re-engineer my vimrc.

[jabrouwer82]

Another benefit would be highlighted line numbers, eg for gitgutter https://github.com/airblade/vim-gitgutter#line-number-highlights

[jabrouwer82]

And another benefit would be codeLens in COC, for inferred scala types.

[jabrouwer82]

Oh, but neovim now has builtin LSP support: https://neovim.io/doc/user/lsp.html
With lsp plugins: https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lsp
And there's talk of integrating DAP: neoclide/coc.nvim#322
And tree-sitter will eventually be amazing: https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/

[jabrouwer82]

This is a fairly convincing list now.
Neovide looks like it has potential: https://github.com/Kethku/neovide
If not, VimR for macos: https://github.com/qvacua/vimr (https://medium.com/breathe-publication/a-killer-gui-for-neovim-vimr-ce68e4fa1a3b)
Neovim-qt: https://github.com/equalsraf/neovim-qt
Neovim-gtk: https://github.com/daa84/neovim-gtk
GNvim: https://github.com/vhakulinen/gnvim

[jabrouwer82]

Switched to neovim-qt!