focus.nvim VS goneovim

focus.nvim

For automatic and probably instant split resizing, you could use focus.nvim or something similar. Or just resize using Neovim (keyboard) commands, which probably would also not lag.

- https://github.com/beauwilliams/focus.nvim

Been searching around, and found zen-mode and focus.nvim but they don't really fix my specific use case. Some even suggested to have the file explorer opened to act as the left padding.

I mean... yeah? I write vim plugins, see focus.nvim

For those that haven't heard of focus, a quick TLDR.. if you love using vim splits, you will find focus.nvim makes your life with splits just that little bit better. The core feature of focus is auto-resizing splits, when moving between them the currently focused window will be resized to take up more of the screen. It's even more awesome now thanks to #1 below. Or maybe see some demo gifs here.

Hmm, perhaps this can be an addition to focus.nvim ..maybe add some options and enhancements to make it work better

You can also get auto-resizing splits like in this little thing I wrote focus.nvim

yeah, looks like https://github.com/akiyosi/goneovim

This sounds like goneovim

fvim and goneovim have support for gui-widgets.nvim which is a sort of protocol to define images and let Neovim GUIs display them.

but you can use a GUI like https://github.com/akiyosi/goneovim or https://github.com/neovide/neovide#remote-tcp-support

If you're fine with leaving the terminal, Goneovim has it built-in

Neovim in a terminal can only display monospaced characters. However there are GUIs for Neovim and Goneovim used to have a markdown preview.

I think the main thing now is probably waiting for one of the nvim GUIs to develop the appropriate features. Goneovim looks like it's getting there and may already be good enough for your needs. E.g. you can break any nvim window (floats, splits etc) into a separate external desktop window.

GUI - per se it runs in the terminal but there are GUIs you can use, e.g.: https://github.com/akiyosi/goneovim

you can start a headless neovim inside the container with nvim --listen 127.0.0.1:7777 --headless and then use something like goneovim (https://github.com/akiyosi/goneovim) to connect to this instance. all your tools (npm, linters etc) will be inside the container

Instead, Nvim provides an RPC protocol that may be implemented by external GUIs. For example, there exists a plugin that embeds Nvim into Firefox when editing textboxes, GUIs that leverage Nvim's multigrid support to support smooth scrolling, translucent popups, minimaps, etc. such as Uivonim, Goneovim and Neovide, and more.