beacon.nvim VS instant.nvim

danilamihailov/beacon.nvim might do something similar to what you described.

I would recommend installing a plugin like beacon.nvim or similar which flashes the new location of the cursor whenever it makes a jump. That way it's easier for someone to follow where your cursor is, which is often a reason for confusion otherwise.

I spent the weekend tinkering with Neovim's virtual text and ended up creating this plugin. It's pretty close to being a clone of beacon.nvim but it's written in Lua. I find cursor highlighting very helpful when working on a large monitor where I inevitably end up with various splits.

Hello, guys. I have been using accelerated-jk and beacon.nvim for a long time. I think they are very useful and excellent. But, there has been no a complete version of lua. And recently I also want to start writing plug-ins, so here are they. I hope they will be useful to you.

I use https://github.com/DanilaMihailov/beacon.nvim and I love it. Would recommend.

I'm not sure if it's even possible to do something like neovide's animation inside the terminal, but I find this plugin really useful to display where the cursor is after you switch windows https://github.com/DanilaMihailov/beacon.nvim

maybe this https://github.com/jbyuki/instant.nvim.

For example, instant.nvim just shows where other clients are currently inserting. Assuming you don't do something daft like invite 500 strangers for a free-for-all, you shouldn't run into any problems.

You could also force your coworkers to use neovim and everyone can use https://github.com/jbyuki/instant.nvim (/j)

This has already been working in other forms for years, see for example https://github.com/mhinz/neovim-remote which is now more or less discontinued because the respective core implementation is indeed better longterm (again - this is a difference because this implements an unopinionated extension protocol that’s now easy to deliver with the refactoring efforts, not an opinionated packaged solution). A useful and fuller experience for the special case of remote editing would be https://github.com/jbyuki/instant.nvim for example, they also use this API principle you wanted to see - it’s just a nvim-server that is controlled remotely and you have an editor locally that acts as your direct interface (and you take this functionality into every other embedded solution!). And all of that is not just just somewhat fiddled solution but iterated solutions of the varying states of this feature implementation (on the path to neovim 1.0).

This plugin looks promising. https://github.com/jbyuki/instant.nvim

I've been keeping an eye on instant.nvim, though I haven't used it yet