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ActualVim
Python2013–2020
lunixbochs / ActualVim

ActualVim

Sublime Text 3 input mode using Neovim. Issues are closed. Feel free to submit Pull Requests if you have bug fixes.

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17Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1.6KGitHub stars
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What it is

Sublime Text 3 input mode using Neovim. Issues are closed. Feel free to submit Pull Requests if you have bug fixes.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 4:00:59 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year17 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2013-10-24 07:51:45 UTC to 2020-08-05 21:10:01 UTC.

02462013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 2 submissions, 2 comments20132014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 1 submissions, 6 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC422
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC716
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Not snippets/completion, very specifically "[Sublime's] Auto-popups while typing". This is due to the way I intercept Sublime's input. Vim's snippets/completion work fine, and Sublime's work fine if you invoke them in another way. See https://github.com/lunixbochs/actualvim/issues/97 for the planned fix. Of the main caveats: - No multiple cursors is due to lack of support in neovim, it's blocked on either neovim implementing them or me emulating them - No "Auto-popups while typing" is due to a limitation in Sublime's input system, which I plan to work around if they don't provide another first-party solution. - Undo coalescing isn't a major issue unless you switch modes repeatedly, because Vim's undo works fine. - Surfacing more of Vim's UI is slowly happening as neovim adds more UI APIs. - "Extremely large files" is fixed in master for n
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vim->Sublime buffer changes with neovim 0.3's change deltas. It's not completely fixed for Sublime->nvim buffer changes (like if you run a host plugin or click a Sublime UI element), because Sublime has no delta system. #97 plus a C diffing library would sort that out, as would Sublime adding a change delta API.
In Neovim 0.3 released
ActualVim (a plugin for Sublime Text 3) implemented support for the Nvim 0.3 "buffer updates" feature in less than 24 hours: https://github.com/lunixbochs/ActualVim/commit/414e8d4c3feb4... Oni[1] is also expected to use the feature soon. Other features worth noting are - <Cmd> key https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4419 - stdpath() function https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/6272 https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/7679 and https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/8226 are small but nice quality-of-life improvements. There's also many new API features and defaults tweaks listed in the release notes. Oh, and a built-in AST-producing VimL expression parser: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/7234 That's a big one. [1] https://github.com/onivim/oni
In Neovim 0.3 released

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