What is the current state of remote neovim?

• distant.nvim

  30 1,086 6.9 Lua

  🚧 (Alpha stage software) Edit files, run programs, and work with LSP on a remote machine from the comfort of your local environment 🚧

This is something I've been tracking pretty closely. My understanding of the current options: 1. Use sshfs. Pros: nothing to install on the remote server. Cons: will choke on huge filesystems when doing some operations (e.g. fuzzy finding). Also requires all your LSP/linting/analysis tools to be installed locally, which may not be the case if your company is transitioning to remote developer environments. 2. Use netrw or similar. Pros: nothing to install. Cons: will not play nice with LSP, fuzzy finding, or anything else. 3. Use distant.nvim. At this point, basically the same as netrw except that maybe remote LSP will work. 4. SSH to the server and use nvim there. Pros: simple and everything works. Cons: Have to install nvim on the server. SSH connection may cause typing lag if the RTT is high (some people report that Mosh can help the lag issue)

• Mosh

  152 12,199 4.6 C++

  Mobile Shell

  

This is something I've been tracking pretty closely. My understanding of the current options: 1. Use sshfs. Pros: nothing to install on the remote server. Cons: will choke on huge filesystems when doing some operations (e.g. fuzzy finding). Also requires all your LSP/linting/analysis tools to be installed locally, which may not be the case if your company is transitioning to remote developer environments. 2. Use netrw or similar. Pros: nothing to install. Cons: will not play nice with LSP, fuzzy finding, or anything else. 3. Use distant.nvim. At this point, basically the same as netrw except that maybe remote LSP will work. 4. SSH to the server and use nvim there. Pros: simple and everything works. Cons: Have to install nvim on the server. SSH connection may cause typing lag if the RTT is high (some people report that Mosh can help the lag issue)

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• bob

  37 1,223 8.8 Rust

  A version manager for neovim (by MordechaiHadad)

Now I'm working on a 'portable' neovim config that makes use of this. I also use https://github.com/MordechaiHadad/bob to easily install the latest version of neovim on any platform (at least works for windows/mac/linux). Bob itself can be installed with rust's package manager cargo, which is easy to install itself (rustup). Then you can use mason.nvim to automatically install lsp servers and other packages/binaries you might need in a portable way.

• neovim

  1,384 76,465 10.0 Vim Script

  Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

  

The --remote feature is half-baked. It will be redesigned. See https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/20965

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