Bug 612644

Summary:	app-vim/* Add support for neovim
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Aric Belsito <lluixhi>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Vim Maintainers <vim>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	anrock623, ave, bearcatsandor, cyber+gentoo, ikelos, lo48576, lssndrbarbieri, opal, skrattaren, william
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=586882
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Description Aric Belsito 2017-03-14 20:36:03 UTC

We have a lot of packages in app-vim, and all of them should support both neovim and vim (because neovim is compatible with most things from vim-7.4), but we can only build and use them with vim.

The easiest way I can imagine doing this is introducing a new global USE flag, "nvim" or "neovim", and changing the vim-plugin, vim-spell, and vim-doc eclasses to reflect the different runtime path: "/usr/share/nvim/runtime" instead of "/usr/share/vim/vimfiles".

Another possible way we could do this is by adding a new USE_EXPAND, named something like "VIM_TARGETS" with possible values of "vim, neovim" and we install to each of the possible targets so that users can choose to support both vim instances.

Comment 1 Aric Belsito 2017-09-08 21:44:39 UTC

I just attempted to created one solution to this problem (though it's not cleaned up because I'm not sure whether it would get accepted) available at

https://github.com/lluixhi/gentoo/tree/neovim-syntax

Adding a `vim-runtime.eclass` and inheriting from that in order to set the vimfiles directory.

Comment 2 Nikolaj Šujskij 2017-12-23 20:43:19 UTC

Aric, I see that your eclass proposal had been reviewed, do you plan to continue working on it?

Comment 3 fkater 2019-04-30 11:10:09 UTC

If there is some work I could do, let me know.

It was too bad to not use all app-vim/* packages for neovim, too.

Comment 4 Bearcat M. Şándor 2021-07-17 08:50:26 UTC

Is this bug dead? I would be great to be able to have only neovim installed, and not an unused vim/vim-core installation.

Comment 5 opal hart 2021-07-17 23:07:57 UTC

Worst case, I or someone else could set up ebuilds for this on an overlay.

Comment 6 Anna Vyalkova 2022-04-12 09:26:24 UTC

There's an opportunity to implement such support -- Vim eclasses are being ported to EAPI 8.
https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/24941