Cross Platform Neovim Client Library for Nim

What is this?

• It is a Msgpack RPC API implementation
• You can use this library to write Neovim plugin in Nim
• You can use this library to embed Neovim in your application
• You can write Neovim GUI and communicate with Neovim using this library

Features

• Supported OSes: Windows, Linux, MacOS
• Support batch mode a.k.a. call_atomic
• Communicate with Neovim using different channels:
  • stdio on windows/unix
  • named pipe on windows or unix domain socket on unix
  • tcp socket on windows/unix
• listen for Neovim ui events, sync request, async notify
• register plugin functions, commands, autocmds utilities

Documentation

I already compiled a detailed technical documentation covering Neovim plugin architecture, RPC transport layer, RPC API call, registering plugin host and functions, from various sources, such as Neovim Go-Client, Racket-Client, Neovim rpc documentation, etc.

• Technical Reference of this library internals, useful if you want to write your own client-library or hacking this library.
• Tutorial, for you who wants to write plugin, ui app, or embedding Neovim.

How To Install

nimble install nvim_client