oni2 VS libvim

It was onivim2. Iirc it was a one-man show, and stopped when funding dried up. I also hoped to see a a lot from it. Maybe the dev took too much work on his plate, with an unproven language with limited libraries?

https://github.com/onivim/oni2

It's unfortunate that oni2 stopped development.

It had the promise of all the benefits of VS Code, but performance of a native app.

https://v2.onivim.io

Yeah, https://github.com/onivim/oni2/issues/3811

Onivim development has stopped, it is now abandonware: https://github.com/onivim/oni2/issues/3811#issuecomment-9103...

It's MIT licensed now, so anyone could pick it up and continue work on it, but the original authors have basically stopped working on it. This GitHub issue was the last major news update.

I never tried CoffeeScript since nobody pays me for it, though I am curious about ReasonML as an alternative, there's a Neovim front-end[0] coded in Reason that compiles natively[1], and supports existing VS Code plugins from the VSCodium plugin repository[2] which I still have yet to look at how the heck they pulled that bit off, but it is pretty interesting.

[0]: https://github.com/onivim/oni2#introduction

[1]: https://github.com/revery-ui/revery

[2]: https://open-vsx.org/

I am working on a hobby project in which I need to simulate vim motions outside of vim. I need some API that have functions that would take as input a text, some vim mode and a key (or sequence of keys) and return what is the output text and vim mode. It could be in Rust, C or C++. I tried using libvim (https://github.com/onivim/libvim) but it is way more than I want (and also, I am having a hard time to build it on my machine). Are there any other alternatives?

Hi there! I'm trying to import https://github.com/onivim/libvim in a separate standalone file. But, just cloning the repository and using #include "../libvim/src/libvim.h" doesn't work, as the file contains multiple errors. It seems to me that libvim also have other dependencies that are missing, which causes such errors. If I try to build it, in the way that is explained in README.md it works, but I suppose that this happens because the Makefile adds the necessary dependencies. The Makefile has over 3000 lines, and I don't have much experience on this. Is there a standard way to automatically add any necessary dependencies? Am I using this library in a wrong way?

Oni is a proper neovim gui, whereas Oni2 is something else entirely (uses https://github.com/onivim/libvim).

You might want to look at https://github.com/onivim/libvim Dunno what it's capabilities are, but, it might be of use.

In progress work, but we do use vim under the hood (i.e. a fork of vim, where we've made it more suitable for being used as a library: https://github.com/onivim/libvim). So we can support vim plugins (or at least a subset of them), we just want to have tests back up and running for them in libvim, and have more testing in place at the Oni2 end as well.

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...

FYI, this isn't built on neovim anymore https://github.com/onivim/libvim#why-is-libvim-based-on-vim-and-not-neovim