RORobTonino·Mar 12, 2026Submission
Use Neovim's server capabilities on your local machine
4 points · Open discussionmhinz
neovim-remote
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neovim-remote
:ok_hand: Support for --remote and friends.
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6 sourcesFor that to work, you'll need the 'wait' versions of the remote flags. Those are still being worked on in a PR, but I'm hoping to finish them up by the next release: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/17856
That said, this sort of remote opening has been possible in Neovim since the client-server stuff was added in the early days. This is only adding the remote editing flags and implementation to Neovim itself to make it easier.
Neovim-remote(https://github.com/mhinz/neovim-remote#typical-use-cases) is an outside-of-Neovim way to do it with the Python client. It has an $EDITOR setting listed there. Or if you don't want to use Python, you can use invim(https://github.com/groves/invim#to-use-as-your-git-commit-me...). It's just a shell script. Or you can wait for the next release!
In Neovim 0.7 ReleasedI guess this is a thing you could achieve with neovim-remote[1]. My main use case for it avoiding nested neovim processes in the inbuilt terminal, though
[1]: https://github.com/mhinz/neovim-remote
In Nvui: A NeoVim GUI written in C++ and Qt:term really changed the game for me. being able to run commands and then work with the output in other modes is so convenient. pair with neovim-remote[0], and it's pretty magical.
i stopped using tmux because now all i need to do is open a terminal buffer in a new split to multiplex. i rarely used it for sessions, but use abduco[1] for that now when i find the need.
[0]: https://github.com/mhinz/neovim-remote
[1]: https://github.com/martanne/abduco
In Why Should You Learn Vim in 2020maybe neovim-remote is what you want? https://github.com/mhinz/neovim-remote
In NeoVim 0.2.0 releasedHere's my terminal mappings: https://github.com/hhsnopek/dotfiles/blob/master/.nvimrc#L93
Otherwise I use neovim-remote (https://github.com/mhinz/neovim-remote), which will soon be natively in neovim, but until then you can connect to your vim instance and either create a new buffer or replace the existing one. You perform your things and then use `:w | bp` and jump back a buffer if you created a new one.
Similarly my keybindings can be mapped just as I did in my dotfiles (first link). Probably my favorite part is being able to search my terminal instance in vim style with `/` and navigate as I would in any other file
In Benefits of using tmux – streamlining your development environment