minimap.vim VS goneovim

I have been trying to install https://github.com/wfxr/minimap.vim for several hours now. It installed the plugin but it won't load.

And if you really freaking wanted to, you could just add it to vim...

Prior to writing this, I didn't use any "buffer overview" plugins. I accidentally happened to see a wfxr/minimap.vim plugin, which uses Rust dependency to render text overview. This made me really curious if I could implement similar functionality in Lua with at least comparable speed. Turned out, I could! Benchmarking 'mini.map' and 'wfxr/minimap.vim' for first map window opening on 'builtin.txt' help page (9338 lines) shows around 70-90 milliseconds of computation time. Both are much faster on smaller files, of course.

https://github.com/wfxr/minimap.vim (on the right, but a minimap instead a bar)

wfxr/minimap.vim - VSCode style mini maps

I don't usually use any minimap, but when I show my configuration, there is one for decoration.

very nice. Would love to have the same feature in https://github.com/wfxr/minimap.vim

Regarding minimap in terminal, I've been enjoying this plugin.

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.