Modern Vim

What’s Next for Neovim

Neovim is an ambitious project. In the following sections, I’ll discuss some of the features that you can expect to see in a future release of Neovim.

Externalizing the User Interface

Vim’s user interface (UI) can appear differently depending on the environment in which it runs. Most commonly, Vim runs inside a terminal user interface (TUI), where everything must be rendered using ASCII text. You can also run Vim within a graphical user interface (GUI), where certain parts of the interface can be rendered using graphical elements.

To begin with, we’ll look closely at Vim’s tab bar. This UI element has had the capability to be rendered graphically since version 7.0 of Vim, making this example relevant for both Vim 8 ...