Neovim
Neovim is a reimplementation of the Vim text editor.
Features:
- Applications can
--embedNeovim as an editor - Support for plugins written in Lua or Vimscript
- Faster parsing engine
- Builtin LSP client
- Builtin terminal emulator
- Fully compatible with Vim's editing model and Vimscript v1.
Embedding Neovim
According to neovim documentation:
–embed
Use stdin/stdout as a msgpack-RPC channel, so applications can embed and control Nvim via the RPC |API|.
Waits for the client ("embedder") to call |nvimuiattach()| before sourcing startup files and reading buffers, so that UIs can deterministically handle (display) early messages, dialogs, etc. The client can do other requests before `nvimuiattach` (e.g. `nvimgetapiinfo` for feature-detection). During this pre-startup phase the user config is of course not available (similar to `–cmd`).
Embedders not using the UI protocol must pass YXXY–headless|:
nvim –embed –headless
Then startup will continue without waiting for `nvimuiattach`. This is equivalent to:
nvim –headless –cmd "call stdioopen({'rpc': v:true})"
See also: |ui-startup| |channel-stdio|