Always opening files in terminal in existing/running Neovide window/app #2978
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Hi all, can someone point me in the right direction, to configure Neovide so i can:
So, always only have 1 Neovide window/app running. Is this currently possible? |
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Note, I don't have a computer to test this on right now, but something like this should work. Create an executable shell script in accesible in your path, call it for example #!/usr/bin/env bash
# An existing instance is running
if [[ -e /tmp/neovide.sock ]]; then
absolute_paths=()
# Convert each argument to its absolute path
for arg in "$@"; do
absolute_paths+=$(realpath "$arg")
done
# Open the absolute paths in an existing instance
nvim --server /tmp/neovide.sock "${absolute_paths[@]}"
else
# Start neovide and a new rpc server
neovide -- "+serverstart('/tmp/neovide.sock')" "$@"
fiNow, you should be able to just |
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Ah, sorry, I think it should be see https://neovim.io/doc/user/builtin.html#serverstart() If you want to detach it from the terminal, you can change it to |
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Okay, thanks again. So opening the first file works; i don't understand why 🤷🏼♂️ I checked that the Any idea? #!/usr/bin/env bash
# An existing instance is running
if [[ -e /tmp/neovide.sock ]]; then
absolute_paths=()
# Convert each argument to its absolute path
for arg in "$@"; do
absolute_paths+=$(realpath "$arg")
done
echo "Open the absolute paths in an existing instance"
nvim --server /tmp/neovide.sock "${absolute_paths[@]}"
else
echo "Start neovide and a new rpc server"
neovide --fork -- "+call serverstart('/tmp/neovide.sock')" "$@"
# neovide -- "+call serverstart('/tmp/neovide.sock')" "$@"
fiOutput: |
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Okay, so as a workaround i decided to try nvr and this works: #!/usr/bin/env bash
# An existing instance is running
if [[ -e /tmp/nvimsocket ]]; then
absolute_paths=()
# Convert each argument to its absolute path
for arg in "$@"; do
absolute_paths+=$(realpath "$arg")
done
# echo "Open the absolute paths in an existing instance"
nvr --remote "${absolute_paths[@]}"
else
# echo "Start neovide and a new rpc server"
neovide --fork -- "+call serverstart('/tmp/nvimsocket')" "$@"
fi
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Sorry for the problems, it's hard to get right without being able to test it. It looks like it needs |
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Thank you for the help @fredizzimo , that works perfectly. PS. Note that opening the second file does not "activate" the Neovide window. But i can solve that in other way. Thanks again! Solution:#!/usr/bin/env bash
# An existing instance is running
if [[ -e /tmp/neovide.sock ]]; then
absolute_paths=()
# Convert each argument to its absolute path
for arg in "$@"; do
absolute_paths+=$(realpath "$arg")
done
# echo "Open the absolute paths in an existing instance"
nvim --server /tmp/neovide.sock --remote "${absolute_paths[@]}"
else
# echo "Start neovide and a new rpc server"
neovide --fork -- "+call serverstart('/tmp/neovide.sock')" "$@"
fi
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To focus, you can use https://neovide.dev/commands.html#focus-window So, |
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That doesn't work, it (also) opens a file/buffer named |
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Sorry for the problems, it's hard to get right without being able to test it.
It looks like it needs
--remotein addition to--server.nvim --server /tmp/neovide.sock --remote "${absolute_paths[@]}"https://neovim.io/doc/user/remote.html#--server