Neoclide-client

Neoclide-client is a redesigned UI component of neovim-component.

Besides many bugs fixed, neoclide-client introduce uniformed data flow specified for neovim to make the UI easy to reason about.

Note some features relies on electron to work.

Features

• Background transparent support
• Improved input method support (need to run electron-rebuild)
• More friendly cursor support, without antialiased issue
• Accessable editor state object
• Automatic resize handler, no screen blink

Install

node.js is need, just run:

npm install neoclide-client

Some native modules is used, since it's build for electron, electron-rebuild need to be run after install or electron get upgraded.

Data flow

Usage

Include webcomponent, polymer and neovim-editor to html page and neovim-editor tag.

<script src="../bower_components/webcomponentsjs/webcomponents-lite.min.js"></script>
<link rel="import" href="../bower_components/polymer/polymer.html" />
<link rel="import" href="../neovim-editor.html" />
<neovim-editor id="neovim" font="Source\ Code\ Pro" font-size="14">
</neovim-editor>

See detailed in example/index.html

You can run the example by using node example/cli.js after clone the repo and electron-rebuild.

Configuration

neovim-editor have some properties which allows specify how neovim-editor works before attched.

None of them are required.

• font-size: font size for rendering, default 14
• font: font family for rendering, default monospace
• line-height: line height for rendering, default 1.3
• nvim-cmd: command start neovim default nvim
• argv: argument list add to nvimCmd, default []
• disable-alt-key: default false
• disable-meta-key: default true
• cursor-draw-delay: delay for redrawing cursor default 10
• window-title: default Neovim
• on-process-attached: optional callback function on editor attached
• on-quit: optional callback function on editor quit
• on-error: optional callback function on editor error
• cursor-fgcolor: font color of cursor, default #000000
• cursor-bgcolor: background color of cursor, default #ffffff

Editor events

Access editor instance by using element.editor, for example:

const el = document.getElementById('neovim-editor')
cosnt editor = el.editor

• attached fired on editor attached

• detach fired on editor detached

• quit fired on editor quit

• error fired on editor error with error instance

• contextmenu fired on contextmenu event of editor

• bell fired on editor bell

• visual-bell fired on editor visual-bell

• change title fired with new title

• change icon fired with new icon path

• change attribute fired on element attribute change with name and type

• change scroll_region fired with new scroll_region

• change size fired with new size of editor, which contains lines and cols

• change cursor fired with new cursor position

• change bg_color fired with new bg_color (rgba or rgb format)

• change fg_color fired with new fg_color (rgba or rgb format)

• change busy fired with busy (true of false)

• change focused fired with focused (true of false)

• change mode fired with new mode (command or insert, need patch neovim to support cmdline)

Editor API

editor.getClient()

Get underlying promised-neovim client.

editor.focus()

Focus canvas element of editor

editor.setArgv(argv: Array)

Pass new argument list to neovim, see :h args_f

editor.state

Get a readonly state object of editor.

editor.convertPositionToLocation(line, col)

Helper function covert cursor position to screen position.

editor.convertLocationToPosition(x, y)

Helper function covert screen position to cursor position.

editor.quit()

Quit editor

LICENCE

Copyright 2016 [email protected]

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.