Basilico

GUI Extension for NeoVim in C++

Note:Only support Linux, it may not work on others.

Required

• Neovim 0.3.2 or later

  • Neovim releases

• Qt5.7 or later

  • Qt Download

  • On Ubuntu18.04, default Qt version is 5.9 or later now

• Boost Library

  • You can install Boost Library by using package manager

  • Required libboost-thread and libboost-system

  sudo apt install libboost-thread-dev libboost-system-dev

• C++ compiler

  • compiler which can build c++17 such as clang, g++ etc (You will have one)

• CMake

  sudo apt install cmake

• Msgpack-c 2.0 or later

  • Msgpack git repository

  • You have to do git clone and build

  cd path/to/anydir/
  git clone https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-c
  cd msgpack-c
  mkdir build
  cd build && cmake .. && make
  make install

• Jinja2

  pip install jinja2

You can install with this

Install

If you have dein.vim, you can write on your dein.toml

[[plugins]]
repo='tsubota-kouga/Basilico'
build='bash build.sh'

or write in init.vim

call dein#add('tsubota-kouga/Basilico')

Note: You can NOT write on your dein_lazy.toml

And make alias

alias basil='bash path/to/sh/basil'

Customize

You can customize, whether use gui tabline or not. And if you use gui tabline, you can set Qt Style Sheet to tabline.

Note: To use Tabpage Plugin, g:basilico#ext_tabline must be v:true.

global val	type	default	example
g:basilico#ext_tabline	bool	v:false	v:true
g:basilico#tabline_style_sheet	string	''	'background-color: #444444;'

command name	explanation
BasilGenerate	Genarate C++ header, source, and so on
BasilBuild	Build Basilico

To Install Basilico Plugins, please do following

1. add to dein.toml or init.vim

2. start neovim

3. execute BasilGenerate command

4. execute BasilBuild command

Feature

• Tabpage Plugin support

• Dock Widget Plugin support

• Multi Wide Charactor support

• ext_tabline ui_option support

• mouse support

Future

• ext_multigrid ui_option support

• Window Plugin support

• cursor blinking support

• vimscript Basilico GUI library

Licence

MIT Licence except neovim.cpp and img directory.

neovim.cpp directory has changed from original.

Original repository is here. Thanks!

nvim.png under img directory by Jason Long is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.