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libvim: The core Vim editing engine as a minimal C library

12 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 1 story, 11 comments · first 2019-12-15 · latest 2022-04-08

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  1. …with something where everybody misses something, there's a great C library that could be of help: https://github.com/onivim/libvim
    comment by terhechte · 2022-04-08 · in Zas Editor
  2. Seems they had trouble implementing that with Neovim[0]. Relevant reddit thread[1] 0: https://github.com/onivim/libvim#why-is-libvim-based-on-vim-... 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/cdf36v/onivim2_chan...
  3. …requirements, but it’d be great to have the best possible support for modal editing in VSCode. [1]: https://github.com/onivim/libvim#why-is-libvim-based-on-vim-... [2]: https://onivim.github.io/docs/other/motivation#a-new-view-la... [3]:…
  4. …it since before the project started, but it outlines the motivations we went in with etc). [1]: https://github.com/onivim/libvim [2]: https://github.com/onivim/oni2/blob/master/docs/MOTIVATION.m...
  5. …to use all vim plugins/scripts, it should give you a much more complete vim experience. See also https://github.com/onivim/libvim
  6. It's not that cut and dry. See https://github.com/onivim/libvim#why-is-libvim-based-on-vim-... It's mostly due to their build system.
    comment by nhooyr · 2020-06-28 · in Xi-Editor Retrospective
  7. I think perhaps libvim is like that? https://github.com/onivim/libvim
    comment by sgrove · 2020-06-27 · in Xi-Editor Retrospective
  8. …usage of it called Paravim [2] (and the same author also used it for Vim-Cubed [3]) - [1] https://github.com/onivim/libvim/blob/master/src/libvim.h - [2] https://github.com/paranim/paravim - [3] https://github.com/oakes/vim_cubed
  9. …https://github.com/onivim/oni2/issues/592 - [2] https://github.com/onivim/oni2/issues/1551 - [3] https://github.com/onivim/libvim
  10. https://github.com/onivim/libvim#why-is-libvim-based-on-vim-... Guts of it is that Neovim didn't play nicely with their OCaml build and Vim did. Rather than invest time in working through the problem, they went ahead with Vim but remain…
    comment by richeyryan · 2020-06-24 · in Onivim 2: Lightweight, Modal Code Editor
  11. …and I'm really hoping once it's stable, someone integrates it with vscode and other editors. [0]: https://github.com/onivim/libvim