neoclide

coc.nvim

TypeScript2018–2024

neoclide / coc.nvim

coc.nvim

Nodejs extension host for vim & neovim, load extensions like VSCode and host language servers.

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What it is

Nodejs extension host for vim & neovim, load extensions like VSCode and host language servers.

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Where it is used

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For anyone who is new to vim and wants a more-or-less OOTB auto-complete, auto-format experience, I recommend https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim As for neovim, personally, I…

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	3	2	1
2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	8	2	6
2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	21	1	20
2021	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	15	2	13
2022	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	9	1	8
2023	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	4	0	4
2024	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1

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Read the project’s introduction

Make your Vim/Neovim as smart as VS Code Visit cocnvim.com coc.nvim is an IntelliSense engine for Vim and Neovim. It brings VS Code-like completion, diagnostics, navigation, refactoring, and extension support to both editors through a Node.js service. Quick start See Install coc.nvim for installation instructions and example Vim and Neovim configurations. Try coc.nvim in your browser. Sponsors Contributors Qiming zhao 💻 Heyward Fann 💻 Raidou 💻 kevinhwang91 💻 年糕小豆汤 💻 Avi Dessauer 💻 最上川 💻 Yatao Li 💻 wongxy 💻 Sam McCall 💻 Samuel Roeca 💻 Amirali Esmaeili 💻 Jack Rowlingson 💻 Jaehwang Jung 💻 Antoine 💻 Cosmin Popescu 💻 Duc Nghiem Xuan 💻 Francisco Lopes 💻 daquexian 💻 dependabot[bot] 💻 greenkeeper[bot] 💻 Chris Kipp 💻 Dmytro Meleshko 💻 Kirill Bobyrev 💻 Gontran Baerts 💻 Andy 💻 Cheng JIANG 💻 Corin 💻 Daniel Zhang 💻 Ferdinand Bachmann 💻 Guangqing Chen 💻 Jade Meskill 💻 Jasper Poppe 💻 Jean Jordaan 💻 Kid 💻 Pieter van Loon 💻 Robert Liebowitz 💻 Seth Messer 💻 UncleBill 💻 ZERO 💻 fsouza 💻 XiaoZhang 💻 whyreal 💻 yehuohan 💻 バクダンくん 💻 Raphael 💻 tbodt 💻 Aaron McDaid 💻 Aasif Versi 💻 Abner Silva 💻 Adam Stankiewicz 💻 Adamansky Anton 💻 Ahmed El Gabri 💻 Alexandr Kondratev 💻 Andrew Shim 💻 Andy Lindeman 💻 Augustin 💻 Bastien Orivel 💻 Ben Lu 💻 Ben 💻 Brendan Roy 💻 brianembry 💻 br 💻 Cason Adams 💻 Chang Y 💻 Chayoung You 💻 Chen Lijun 💻 Chen Mulong 💻 Chris Weyl 💻 dezza 💻 Cody Allen 💻 Damien Rajon 💻 Daniel Eriksson 💻 Daniel Jenson 💻 David Mejorado 💻 Deric Pang 💻 Ding Tao 💻 Doron Behar 💻 Egor Kovetskiy 💻 ElKowar 💻 Emeliov Dmitrii 💻 Fabian Becker 💻 FallenWarrior2k 💻 Fausto Núñez Alberro 💻 Felipe Ramos 💻 Fredrik Borg 💻 Gavin Sim 💻 Gibson Fahnestock 💻 Giovanni Giordano 💻 Gopal Adhikari 💻 Hanh Le 💻 hedy 💻 Hendrik Lammers 💻 Henry Barreto 💻 Hugo 💻 Jackie Li 💻 Jakub Nowak 💻 James Pickard 💻 Jia Sui 💻 Ellie Hermaszewska 💻 Joel Bradshaw 💻 John Carlo Roberto 💻 Jonas Holst Damtoft 💻 Jonathan Lehman 💻 Joosep Alviste 💻 Josa Gesell 💻 Joshua Rubin 💻 Julian Grinblat 💻 Julian Valentin 💻 KabbAmine 💻 Kay Gosho 💻 Kenny Huynh 💻 Kevin Rambaud 💻 Kian Cross 💻 Kristijan Husak 💻 NullVoxPopuli 💻 Lasse Peters 💻 Noel Errenil 💻 LinArcX 💻 Liu-Cheng Xu 💻 Marc 💻 Marius Gawrisch 💻 Mark Hintz 💻 Mathieu Le Tiec 💻 Matt White 💻 Matthew Evans 💻 Me1onRind 💻 Qyriad 💻 Narcis B. 💻 Neur1n 💻 Nicolas Dermine 💻 Noah 💻 PENG Rui 💻 Paco 💻 Peng Guanwen 💻 Petter Wahlman 💻 Pooya Moradi 💻 Quade Morrison 💻 Ralf Vogler 💻 Ran Chen 💻 Ricardo García Vega 💻 Rick Jones 💻 Ryan Christian 💻 Salo 💻 Sam Nolan 💻 Saurav 💻 Sean Mackesey 💻 Sheel Patel 💻 Solomon Ng 💻 Sri Kadimisetty 💻 Stephen Prater 💻 Sune Kibsgaard 💻 Aquaakuma 💻 Takumi Kawase 💻 The Blob SCP 💻 Tomasz N 💻 Tomoyuki Harada 💻 Tony Fettes 💻 Tony Narlock 💻 Tony Wang 💻 Victor Quach 💻 Whisperity 💻 William Turner 💻 Xiaochao Dong 💻 Hugh Hou 💻 Jackie Li 💻 Zachary Freed 💻 akiyosi 💻 alexjg 💻 aste4 💻 clyfish 💻 dev7ba 💻 diartyz 💻 doza-daniel 💻 equal-l2 💻 fong 💻 hexh 💻 hhiraba 💻 ic-768 💻 javiertury 💻 karasu 💻 kevineato 💻 Eduardo Costa 💻 micchy326 💻 midchildan 💻 minefuto 💻 miyanokomiya 💻 miyaviee 💻 monkoose 💻 🐛 mujx 💻 mvilim 💻 naruaway 💻 piersy 💻 ryantig 💻 rydesun 💻 sc00ter 💻 smhc 💻 Sam Kaplan 💻 tasuten 💻 todesking 💻 typicode 💻 李鸣飞 💻 Ikko Ashimine 📖 Rammiah 🐛 Alisue 🐛 bigshans 📖 Robert Boyd III 🐛 Yuki Iwanaga 💻 SpringHack 🐛 Lucas Burns 📖 qiqiboy 💻 timsu92 📖 Shawn M Moore 💻 Aaron U'Ren 🐛 SeniorMars 📖 牧羊犬真Q 📖 geraldspreer 📖 Fabio 📖 Li Yunting 🐛 Jeff L. 💻 Elliot Winkler 💻 Svetlozar Iliev 💻 James Garbutt 💻 Qingzhou Yue 💻 Maarten de Vries 💻 A4-Tacks 💻 forceofsystem 💻 lake 💻 David O'Trakoun 📖 aispeaking 💻 Christian Clauss 💻 Micah Halter 💻 Cristiano De Michele 💻 Yong Jie 💻 Kira Oakley 📖 Merouane Atig 📖 Gerald 💻 Nicklas Sedlock 💻 Adam Tao 💻 itsf4llofstars 📖 Brian Wo 📖 Eric Wong 💻 oxalica 💻 Christian Zangl 💻

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What Hacker News says

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ogre_codes·Nov 24, 2020

I posted a little about it in another reply on this thread, I use ALE for JSLint/ Prettier integration and for Code Completion and quasi-IDE like features I use CoC. Configuring CoC is basically copy/ pasta into your .vimrc. It's pretty self-explanatory though so you can figure out what's going on. https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim

In VSCode memory leak issue marked “out-of-scope”

deadbunny·Nov 12, 2020

CoC is already there: https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim

In I Still Use Vim

pkage·Nov 12, 2020

Thankfully, you can get LSP-powered completion with coc.nvim, just like in VSC. It's miles better than YouCompleteMe, plus it's much easier to install—you can just use vim-plug or similar to install it. LSP is truly one of those "rising tide lifting all boats" projects. [0] https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim

In I Still Use Vim

daotoad·Nov 5, 2020

I was using ALE for autocompletion and such, but having switched to COC, I find its support for TypeScript to be far superior. This is relevant because COC is basically a system for talking to language servers. https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim

In Switching from Vim to Intellij

valvar·Sep 22, 2020

For those that like Vim, but also like some of the features that VS Code offers, but do not like VS Code itself and/or its Vim integrations or emulations, I must heartily recommend coc.nvim [0]. It's like using a modern IDE, minus the bloat and anti-features which make most of them (including, of course, VS Code) painful to use. [0] - https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim

In The Era of Visual Studio Code

fratajcz·Sep 16, 2020

Multiple plugins are available to add LSP support in vim, such as coc.nvim (uses node.js, more features) or vim-lsp (lighter, written in vimscript). Neovim is also going to add native LSP support as well as tree-sitter in their 5.0 release, it's already available in nightly builds. The most straightforward option is probably coc.nvim, which tries to give a similar experience to VS Code out of the box. https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim https://github.com/prabirshrestha/vim-lsp https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig https://github.com/neovim/neovim

In Nova by Panic

nouveaux·Aug 5, 2020Recommendation phrase

I highly recommend https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim for IDE if you can use neovim. It is so far the best autocomplete tool for neovim.

In Why Should You Learn Vim in 2020

thedracle·Jul 1, 2020

This is true for me too, I would often use Vim to basically do quick modifications, and use an IDE for refactoring/completion, and code navigation. Recently a lot of quality plugins have been made leveraging Microsoft's languageserver capabilities to provide many of these features for NeoVim/Vim: https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim In many cases it's better than an IDE because the code-inspection, linting, etc etc, can be done using the same exact tools as what your CI is using behind the scenes. Also, having a languageserver for Rust/C++/JavaScript/TypeScript/Bash etc etc, all configured through coc avoids a lot of the jumping between IDEs/editors/tools to get reasonable completion and code navigation between each.

In How Did Vim Become So Popular?

vincent_s·Jul 1, 2020Submission

Make Vim as Smart as VSCode

3 points · Open discussion

artemave·Jul 1, 2020

If you haven't already, you might want to check out coc.nvim https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim

In How Did Vim Become So Popular?

__s·Jun 28, 2020

What you're asking for exists: https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim

In Xi-Editor Retrospective

mcjiggerlog·Jun 24, 2020

You can have all that in vim - it just takes some set up. syntax highlighting: https://github.com/sheerun/vim-polyglot completion: https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim file browser: https://github.com/preservim/nerdtree how to install these plugins: https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug

In Onivim 2: Lightweight, Modal Code Editor

vhakulinen·Jun 24, 2020

Oni was/is build completely on top of neovim and oni2 turned vim (not neovim) into a library and builds on top of that. I suppose the vscode plugin support is implemented in similar fashion as coc[1] does it. 1: https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim

In Onivim 2: Lightweight, Modal Code Editor

tdfx·Jun 9, 2020

I switched from vim (with YouCompleteMe) to VSCode about 4 years ago and I've recently discovered the intellisense engine for VSCode is now available as a vim plugin: https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim.

In Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer?

read_if_gay_·Jun 7, 2020

This is true for renaming a variable but GP mentioned converting string literals to enums. For tasks like that, I think Vim is pretty much the fastest. Also, Vim can also rename variables with coc (https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim)

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License

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First mentioned

Nov 22, 2018

Last mentioned

Apr 21, 2024

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