Neovim Studio

Neovim Studio is a project that seeks to turn the tried-and-true, high-efficiency text editor into a full blown IDE that competes with the capabilities of modern IDE's like Visual Studio without the hassle of setup and configuration.

Neovim Studio is exclusive to Linux and currently supports Pacman, Dpkg, and RPM based distributions.

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Why?

Many of my friends were interested in trying Vim but the setup and configuration for a useful, solid environment can become messy and stressful. I wanted an IDE that worked on almost any Linux computer, could be used on a daily basis for any given text-editing task, and be something that I could share with my colleagues.

Install

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/maxattax97/neovim-studio/
cd neovim-studio

For Neovim Studio: ./neovim-install.sh

For Vim Studio Lite: ./derivatives/vim-studio-lite/install-vim-studio-lite.sh

Other versions are on the way...

Feature Comparison

Feature	Neovim Studio	Visual Studio	XCode	IntelliJ
Auto-completion Support (# Languages)	11	7	10	17
Linting Support (# Languages)	50	7	10	17
"Typical" Boot Time	300ms	80s	5s	5s
Total Installation Size	4.2G	30G	20G	5G

If any of these values are dishonest or unreasonable, please make a pull request. If there's something we're lacking, then we have a goal to chase after.

Detailed Feature List

Notable Features

• Project Browser
• Function Tagging
• Version Control Integration (Git)
• Functions in headless and/or low-performance environments
• Integrated Terminal
• Supports niche/uncommon languages
• Blazing fast load times
• Fuzzy finder
• Auto-completable snippets
• Integrated database interface *
• Strong Regex integration
• Lifetime supply of macros
• Mouse discouraged
• Backed by 9,700 (Vim) + 23,600 (Neovim) stars on Github and 25 years of bugtesting
• Free as in speech and lunch
• Highly configurable

Auto-Completion Support

• C
• C++
• Objective-C
• Objective-C++
• Javascript
• Rust
• Java *
• Perl
• CSS
• HTML
• XML

Linting Support

Most of the linting in Neovim Studio comes from Asynchronous Lint Engine (ALE).

Full Support

• ASM
• Ansible
• AsciiDoc
• Awk
• Bash
• Bourne Shell
• C
• C++
• C#
• Chef
• CoffeScript
• CSS
• Cython
• D
• Dart
• Elixir
• Erb
• Fortran
• Go
• Handlebars
• Haskell
• HTML
• Java
• Javascript
• JSON
• LaTeX *
• Lua
• Markdown
• Nim
• nroff
• Objective-C
• Objective-C++
• Perl
• PHP
• Pod
• Pug
• Puppet
• Python
• reStructuredText
• Ruby
• Rust
• Slim
• Stylus
• SQL
• Texinfo
• Typescript
• Vimscript
• XHTML
• XML
• YAML
• English (see Proselint)

Linting Support in Progress:

• Crystal
• Dockerfile
• Elm
• Erlang
• Haml
• Kotlin
• MATLAB
• Nix
• OCaml
• R
• ReasonML
• RPM Spec
• Scala
• Verilog

Supported by ALE but not by Neovim Studio:

• FusionScript
• Swift (Does not support Linux yet)

* Support needs improvement or is in the process of implementation

Goals

• Implement every feature provided by modern IDE's (minus the graphical interface, for now 😉).
• Maintain considerable speed over modern IDE's.
• Provide significantly larger language support than modern IDE's.
• Implement all plugins that could be considered ubiquitous by pre-existing Vim/Neovim users.
• Favor the "common case" in controls, themes, and other configurations.
• Maintain Vim/Neovim's configurability to a reasonable extent.
• Be easy to install so you can hit the ground running.

Contributing

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