Permit setting firenvim to use --remote instead of starting a new neovim instance

[BlueDrink9]

Could a way of using nvr be set up, so that each new firenvim instance connects to an existing neovim process rather than having to start up a new instance?

Neovim isn't always instant to start, especially if configured for more ide-like editing. I'm very pleased that I can use vim to edit jupyter notebooks properly now - but starting a new editor instance every time I click a box is painful. Connecting to a server would salve this.

[glacambre]

Yes, it should be possible to implement something like --remote, this would just require you to do something like call firenvim#start_server({...}) if you want to start the neovim server yourself instead of having firenvim start it.

I'm disappointed to hear that startup is slow for you though and this is something I will fix regardless of whether and when --remote is implemented. It's unlikely that this is caused by your config since firenvim starts a neovim process before you ask for one, which means the slowness you're experiencing is the cost of creating the iframe + performing a websocket handshake + performing a first rendering.

[glacambre]

Work has started in the impl_single_server branch and is blocked by neovim/neovim#11646.

[glacambre]

Now blocked by neovim/neovim#3338.

[NilsIrl]

neovim/neovim#11331 was merged. Closing neovim/neovim#3338

[glacambre]

Now implemented on master, either build from source or wait for a new release. See this section of the readme to learn how to use it :).

[NilsIrl]

Does it require neovim built from neovim/neovim#11821 at least(i.e. any commit since this was merged)?

[glacambre]

Yep, that's what I mean by "this requires a Neovim compiled at commit a2efc9c or more recent." :)

[NilsIrl]

Yep, that's what I mean by "this requires a Neovim compiled at commit a2efc9c or more recent." :)

idk why, the way I read it, I wasn't sure if this was referring to firenvim or nvim.

Anyway, as long as you're not using the persistent server, you're fine right?

[glacambre]

Anyway, as long as you're not using the persistent server, you're fine right?

Yep, should be (except for #428 which I intend to fix ASAP).