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How could they make a sublime-style code minimap in a CLI app?

The goal (as I understood it) is to separate back-end and front-end. That is, you could have a CLI front-end with just text interface, or a GUI front-end with all the fancy features.

Maybe I didn't get the point of neovim but I don't really see how a GUI could be a useful addition for vim. I only use gvim because colorschemes have nicer colors.

You can use CSExact to get GUI color schemes to work.

https://github.com/KevinGoodsell/vim-csexact

There is also csapprox.

They are willing to make it more like gvim, running in a separate window, and one of targets of neovim is to use a modern graphics backend to achieve that.

Nonsense, mate.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/neovim/hTPKGGzwWKA

neovim is sticking with the standard fixed terminal as the 'main interface', but is building a better/easier way to communicate with external processes. That way a non-terminal Vim plugin can open up extra windows for minimaps, etc.

Ideally, this would mean you could have a vim "server" (for lack of a better term) on your dev VM, or where-ever, and local "client" windows on your actual workstation which displays beautiful helptexts, minimaps, code trees, etc.

Oh, obviously I read the bountysource[1] description too quickly when they published it, thanks for the correction.

[1] https://www.bountysource.com/teams/neovim/fundraiser

It's later in the roadmap but Neovim will also run as a headless slave for use in new GUI applications.

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