b8, Bominade Ultralight NeoVim-based IDE
Project description
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.
License
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2020 Ali Afshar Open Source Software
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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