[New Feature] nvim --remote

New feature that landed recently in neovim core. nvim --listen, nvim --server and nvim --remote.

Thanks for watching! :)

#neovim #features #programming #vim

[smccrode]

Yo!! This is awesome for us remote workers!

[hogstudio]

You are doing God's work to the neovim project with these videos, keep 'em coming! Also, it would be cool to have a video explaining why neovim works so well as an Open Source endeavor, it seems like other open source devs/maintainers could learn a thing or two from y'all.

[RicardoRebelo]

really cool. What I've always wanted to have with neovim is having on instance running in the background, then opening neovim on a terminal would always connect to that instance, but closing the terminal would only close that "frontend" neovim. the point would be no startup times because it's always running, and persisting after closing the terminal.

[SkyKosiner]

This is really exciting to have in neovim now, all the custom shell script ideas are already running in my head.

[mattbutler]

Glad to see nvim still working towards feature parity and this in particular looks pretty cool so far

[GammaFn.]

Nice to see it! I've been using mhinz/neovim-remote for years, even used it to sync registers with Zsh's vi mode. Definitely looking forward to it being built in!

[KatzRool]

I was literally looking something like this up yesterday. Crazy coincidence.

[lucy-pero]

yayy! what an awesome feature!! 🥰🥰 I'll try to find cool uses for it

[gavinvales]

i usse this with vim always, so i'm glad to see this in nvim

[randomcubestuff]

yooo that has so much potential (omg twitch chat controls neovim stream)

[xdgdpch]

That's cool! Can neovim work with docker dev containers? Would you demo it, TJ? Thanks.

[nerdydrow]

nice finally I am using Neovim as code editor for Godot, there is a python script that add this back to Neovim but I am more then happy that this is back to Neovim proper

[ThePrimeagen]

Are you able to stream input from one instance to another?

I could imagine that we could build a super dooper pair programming app with this feature.

[EliteTester]

I had no idea this was a missing vim feature, I have been using neovim-remote for this behavior but it was always very slow and buggy not to mention the project has stopped development. Very nice. (reposting because the comment got filtered)

[wuilliam]

pair programming in vim is coming :) natively

[maxverb]

Damn that's cool. So many sweet use-cases I can think of that use this. Does this open the doors to collaborative editing in the future?

[gjermundification]

Wow, what if the could be vim --listen on server and nvim --remote locally! As most servers do not have nvim.

[window.location]

Awesome feature,
I can already hear primeagen screaming..

[theodorealenas]

I'm sure I can pipe errors from a terminal to dmenu to remote neovim and puzzle an IDE this way.
I got to do it.

[juniorceccon]

I have a docker with some dotnet app. I want to install the lsp under that docker file and run neovim listen there as well. If I connect with nvim --server which config will be used?