neoclide-client v1.0.5
Neoclide-client
Neoclide-client is a redesigned UI component of neovim-component.
Besides many bugs fixed, neoclide-client introduce uniformed data flow specified for neovim to make the UI easy to reason about.
Note some features relies on electron to work.
Features
- Background transparent support
- Improved input method support (need to run electron-rebuild)
- More friendly cursor support, without antialiased issue
- Accessable editor state object
- Automatic resize handler, no screen blink
Install
node.js is need, just run:
npm install neoclide-clientSome native modules is used, since it's build for electron, electron-rebuild
need to be run after install or electron get upgraded.
Data flow

Usage
Include webcomponent, polymer and neovim-editor to html page and neovim-editor tag.
<script src="../bower_components/webcomponentsjs/webcomponents-lite.min.js"></script>
<link rel="import" href="../bower_components/polymer/polymer.html" />
<link rel="import" href="../neovim-editor.html" />
<neovim-editor id="neovim" font="Source\ Code\ Pro" font-size="14">
</neovim-editor>See detailed in example/index.html
You can run the example by using node example/cli.js after clone the repo and
electron-rebuild.
Configuration
neovim-editor have some properties which allows specify how neovim-editor works before attched.
None of them are required.
font-size: font size for rendering, default14font: font family for rendering, defaultmonospaceline-height: line height for rendering, default1.3nvim-cmd: command start neovim defaultnvimargv: argument list add to nvimCmd, default[]disable-alt-key: defaultfalsedisable-meta-key: defaulttruecursor-draw-delay: delay for redrawing cursor default10window-title: defaultNeovimon-process-attached: optional callback function on editor attachedon-quit: optional callback function on editor quiton-error: optional callback function on editor errorcursor-fgcolor: font color of cursor, default#000000cursor-bgcolor: background color of cursor, default#ffffff
Editor events
Access editor instance by using element.editor, for example:
const el = document.getElementById('neovim-editor')
cosnt editor = el.editorattachedfired on editor attacheddetachfired on editor detachedquitfired on editor quiterrorfired on editor error with error instancecontextmenufired on contextmenu event of editorbellfired on editor bellvisual-bellfired on editor visual-bellchange titlefired with new titlechange iconfired with new icon pathchange attributefired on element attribute change withnameandtypechange scroll_regionfired with newscroll_regionchange sizefired with new size of editor, which containslinesandcolschange cursorfired with new cursor positionchange bg_colorfired with new bg_color (rgba or rgb format)change fg_colorfired with new fg_color (rgba or rgb format)change busyfired with busy (true of false)change focusedfired with focused (true of false)change modefired with new mode (commandorinsert, need patch neovim to supportcmdline)
Editor API
editor.getClient()
Get underlying promised-neovim client.
editor.focus()
Focus canvas element of editor
editor.setArgv(argv: Array)
Pass new argument list to neovim, see :h args_f
editor.state
Get a readonly state object of editor.
editor.convertPositionToLocation(line, col)
Helper function covert cursor position to screen position.
editor.convertLocationToPosition(x, y)
Helper function covert screen position to cursor position.
editor.quit()
Quit editor
LICENCE
Copyright 2016 chemzqm@gmail.com
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