evil VS coc.nvim

Compare evil vs coc.nvim and see what are their differences.

evil

The extensible vi layer for Emacs. (by emacs-evil)

coc.nvim

Nodejs extension host for vim & neovim, load extensions like VSCode and host language servers. (by neoclide)
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evil coc.nvim
105 319
3,225 23,895
1.3% 0.5%
8.0 9.0
7 days ago 6 days ago
Emacs Lisp TypeScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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evil

Posts with mentions or reviews of evil. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-22.

coc.nvim

Posts with mentions or reviews of coc.nvim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-06.
  • Existing non-lua plugins examples
    8 projects | /r/neovim | 6 Dec 2023
    The most famous TypeScript one probably is coc.nvim
  • ready to use neovim for web development (frontend) - beginners
    4 projects | /r/neovim | 5 Dec 2023
    It is flatly the wrong mindset to think of vim as an IDE. vim is a code editor: get in, make change, get out. Consider vim koans, which are a fun little read. You can throw coc.nvim at Neovim, along with a few other bits to give you a Good Enough setup, but vim isn't and will never be an IDE.
  • Using CoC inlay hints
    1 project | /r/vim | 11 Nov 2023
    I just did a fresh reinstall of CoC, on a newer version of Neovim. I'm now seeing something I hadn't seen before, which CoC calls "inlay hints". They look like this:
  • C# lsp configuration with neovim CoC
    4 projects | /r/neovim | 10 Nov 2023
    I'm currently on an old setup (using coc and polyglot) and nvim v0.6.1. I'll be updating to a more modern setup within next year, using the native lsp and building nvim more frequently. But that's not today.
  • Does anyone know some good altermatives for these Vim plugins on Emacs?
    3 projects | /r/emacs | 18 Jul 2023
    coc.nvim
  • LazyVim
    32 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Jul 2023
    There are some plugins which have the best documentations I have ever seen, but you need to read it from the Vim.

    Example of coc.nvim: https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim/blob/master/doc/coc.txt

  • Resources on learning bash scripting
    5 projects | /r/bash | 4 Jul 2023
    Actually you can with coc.nvim & coc-sh. So long as shellcheck is also installed and in PATH, it'll integrate with coc/vim just fine.
  • how to set up coc.nvim extension on offline machine?
    2 projects | /r/vim | 7 Jun 2023
    When you install an extension it runs an npm install or yarn, iirc, which is going to be problematic for you being offline. I was going to say you could copy that ~/.config/coc folder directly to the other machine but yeah, Windows, no idea. You see here https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim/wiki/Using-coc-extensions
  • GCC autocompletion
    2 projects | /r/vim | 30 May 2023
    You can try https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim, the pre-requisite is to install nodeJS, then to install all the languages LSP. This works for me for Angular, Rust, JavaScript, Vimscript, etc
  • NeoVim & Rust
    7 projects | /r/rust | 26 May 2023
    But for ยซ intellisense ยป and completion you can use this https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim it works with rust-analyser so it executes a cargo check and fmt every time you save the file as well.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing evil and coc.nvim you can also consider the following projects:

doom-emacs - An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker [Moved to: https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs]

YouCompleteMe - A code-completion engine for Vim

lsp-mode - Emacs client/library for the Language Server Protocol

vim-lsp - async language server protocol plugin for vim and neovim

spacemacs - A community-driven Emacs distribution - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs *and* Vim!

nvim-treesitter - Nvim Treesitter configurations and abstraction layer

Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code

nvim-cmp - A completion plugin for neovim coded in Lua.

VSpaceCode - Spacemacs like keybindings for Visual Studio Code

nvim-lspconfig - Quickstart configs for Nvim LSP

portacle - A portable common lisp development environment

LunarVim - ๐ŸŒ™ LunarVim is an IDE layer for Neovim. Completely free and community driven.