Ultralight IDE based on NeoVim
Project description
bominade (b8)
Vim-based IDE
Bominade is the successor to a8 and PIDA. It is an extremely light-weight IDE based on NeoVim, a file browser and a terminal emulator. It is currently in heavy development.
Features
- NeoVim - that's right, use all your Vim and NeoVim plugins. The NeoVim integration uses LineGrid and renders using Cairo. It's pretty fast and comparable with Vim-gtk
- Proper terminal emulator - this has real PTY support and uses VTE, the backend to gnome-terminal and xfce4-terminal.
- File manager with Git integration - see the statuses of your files directly in the file manager
- Open files in the terminal emulator or file browser just by clicking on them
- Sync terminal emulator working directory with the file manager to auto-browse when you cd
- Terminal themes - love solarized-dark? Great, use it.
- Vim Buffer list - literally the only missing thing from Vim and we provide a nice way to view the path name and the parent directory
- Works on Linux - this thing hasn't been tested on other platforms where it probably works, but we care about Linux
Obligatory screenshot
This is what we mean...
Getting started
I only tested it on an old LTS ubuntu.
You will need a few dependencies: NeoVim, python3, gtk, vte, msgpack.
Something like this should be enough, but let me know:
# apt install python3 python3-gi python3-gi-cairo libvte-2.91-0
It uses NeoVim's non-deprecated linegrid methodology, so you need a recent NeoVim. I use 0.4.4-1 from neovim stable ppa.
pip install b8
In a virtualenv you need some trickery to use gi from the system:
virtualenv -p python3 --system-site-packages env
./env/bin/pip install -I b8 # -I ignores site packages for what it can
Or of course if you have everything already and you dgaf just run the script:
$ python3 b8.py
FAQ
Why do you ignore my guifont setting? Raise a bug if this annoys you, but by the time we get that option from NeoVim things are already drawn and you get a jank which annoys me even more. Instead just set the font in b8's config file e.g. below.
Config
Set up your NeoVim however you like it. Yummy!
Edit ~/.config/b8/b8rc which is a standard ini file.
[terminal]
theme = solarized_dark
[vim]
font = Liberation Mono 14
There are other themes: tango, dark_pastels, green_on_black and others. I should list them.
Release history Release notifications | RSS feed
Download files
Download the file for your platform. If you're not sure which to choose, learn more about installing packages.
