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PyGTK3 frontend to Neovim with some visual GUI elements.

• Provides GTK's clipboard (no need for xclip/xsel)
• Buffers on header bar
• GUI Tabs
• Overlay scrollbars
• Applies GTK's light/dark themes according to&bg
• Applies font from:GuiFont, or from GSettings'org.gnome.desktop.interface:monospace-font-name
• Customizable with Python scripts

Requirements:

• python 3.6+
• python-setuptools (make)
• python-neovim
• python-gobject
• vte3

Per-user:

$ python setup.py install --user --root=/

System-wide:

$ sudo python setup.py install --root=/

Scripts in$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/nvim_pygtk3/*.py areexec'd at startup,exposing the following globals:

• connect: Utility wrapper to connect GObject signals.
• window: The GTK top-level window.Docs
  • window.terminal: The VTE terminal that hosts neovim.Docs
  • window.switcher: The GtkStackSwitcher that displays buffers.Docs
  • window.notebook: The GtkNotebook that displays tabs.Docs
  • window.viewport: The GtkViewport that holds the terminal.Docs

Thewindow object has the following additional signals:

• nvim-setup: Emitted when neovim has started.
• nvim-notify: Emitted when neovim has notified the GUI.
• nvim-request: Emitted when neovim has requested the GUI.

Example script~/.config/nvim_pygtk3/a.py:

@connect(window,'nvim-setup')defa(nvim):nvim.command(f'call rpcnotify({nvim.channel_id}, "hello", "world")')@connect(window,'nvim-notify')defb(nvim,event,args):ifevent=='hello':print('hello',args)@connect(window.terminal,'cursor-moved')defc():print('cursor moved!')