Libvim Alternatives

libvim reviews and mentions

• Vim C API
  1 project | /r/vim | 30 May 2023

  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?

• Failing to include libvim
  1 project | /r/C_Programming | 4 Jan 2023

  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?

• Where do we stand with regard to neovim being everywhere?
  2 projects | /r/neovim | 16 Oct 2022

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

• Do VIM keybindings make sense in a knowledge base app?
  3 projects | /r/vim | 27 Jun 2022

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

• Given Neovim, is there any reason to purchase Onivim? Also, are nvim/vim plugins vs VSCode plugins equally available?
  4 projects | /r/neovim | 5 Jul 2021

  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.

• Onivim 2 is a retro-futuristic modal editor
  13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jun 2021

  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...

• The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCode gorilla
  3 projects | /r/neovim | 17 Jan 2021

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

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