b8 0.1.1

b8, Bominade Ultralight NeoVim-based IDE

bominade (b8)

Vim-based IDE

Bominade is the successor to a8 and PIDA. It is an extremely light-weight IDE based on NeoVim, a file browser and a terminal emulator. It is currently in heavy development.

Features

• NeoVim - that's right, use all your Vim and NeoVim plugins. The NeoVim integration uses LineGrid and renders using Cairo. It's pretty fast and comparable with Vim-gtk
• Proper terminal emulator - this has real PTY support and uses VTE, the backend to gnome-terminal and xfce4-terminal.
• File manager with Git integration - see the statuses of your files directly in the file manager
• Open files in the terminal emulator or file browser just by clicking on them
• Sync terminal emulator working directory with the file manager to auto-browse when you cd
• Terminal themes - love solarized-dark? Great, use it.
• Vim Buffer list - literally the only missing thing from Vim and we provide a nice way to view the path name and the parent directory
• Works on Linux - this thing hasn't been tested on other platforms where it probably works, but we care about Linux

Obligatory screenshot

This is what we mean...

Getting started

I only tested it on an old LTS ubuntu.

You will need a few dependencies: NeoVim, python3, gtk, vte, msgpack.

Something like this should be enough, but let me know:

# apt install python3 python3-gi python3-gi-cairo libvte-2.91-0

It uses NeoVim's non-deprecated linegrid methodology, so you need a recent NeoVim. I use 0.4.4-1 from neovim stable ppa.

pip install b8

In a virtualenv you need some trickery to use gi from the system:

virtualenv -p python3 --system-site-packages env
./env/bin/pip install -I b8  # -I ignores site packages for what it can

Or of course if you have everything already and you dgaf just run the script:

$ PYTHONPATH=. python3 b8/app.py

Manual

🞄 b8 --help

usage: b8 [-h] [-d] [-f CONFIG] [--logging-level LOGGING_LEVEL] [--terminal-theme TERMINAL_THEME] [--terminal-font TERMINAL_FONT] [--shortcuts-previous-buffer SHORTCUTS_PREVIOUS_BUFFER] [--shortcuts-next-buffer SHORTCUTS_NEXT_BUFFER]
          [--shortcuts-previous-terminal SHORTCUTS_PREVIOUS_TERMINAL] [--shortcuts-next-terminal SHORTCUTS_NEXT_TERMINAL] [--shortcuts-new-terminal SHORTCUTS_NEW_TERMINAL]

The bominade IDE, version 0.1.0

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -d, --debug           Run with logging level debug
  -f CONFIG, --config CONFIG
                        Configuration file to use
  --logging-level LOGGING_LEVEL
                        The logging level to use
  --terminal-theme TERMINAL_THEME
                        The terminal theme to use
  --terminal-font TERMINAL_FONT
                        The terminal font to use, e.g. "Monospace 13"
  --shortcuts-previous-buffer SHORTCUTS_PREVIOUS_BUFFER
                        Shortcut key to switch to the previous buffer
  --shortcuts-next-buffer SHORTCUTS_NEXT_BUFFER
                        Shortcut key to switch to the next buffer
  --shortcuts-previous-terminal SHORTCUTS_PREVIOUS_TERMINAL
                        Shortcut key to switch to the previous terminal
  --shortcuts-next-terminal SHORTCUTS_NEXT_TERMINAL
                        Shortcut key to switch to the next terminal
  --shortcuts-new-terminal SHORTCUTS_NEW_TERMINAL
                        Shortcut key to create a new terminal

Keyboard Shortcuts

The following actions are available at the top-level. You can modify them in the config (see config section below).

Key Press	Action
Alt-Up	Previous Buffer
Alt-Down	Next Buffer
Alt-Right	Previous Terminal
Alt-Left	Next Terminal
Alt-t	New Terminal

FAQ

Why is the mouse behaving stupidly? Unlike GVim where the mouse is configured to be on, you have to explicitly do it for NeoVim. Instead of forcing it on the b8 side, we request you run :set mouse=a to do that.

Config

Set up your NeoVim however you like it. Yummy!

Edit ~/.config/b8/b8rc which is a standard ini file.

[terminal]
theme = solarized_dark

[vim]
font = Liberation Mono 14

[shortcuts]
next_buffer = <Alt>Down
prev_buffer = <Alt>Up
next_terminal = <Alt>Right
prev_terminal = <Alt>Left
new_terminal = <Alt>t

There are other themes: tango, dark_pastels, green_on_black and others. I should list them.