Sorry about that, the path needed to be to nvim.exe not just the neovim folder (I assume permission was denied on trying to execute a folder). I just added a check for this in latest master, so it will guess PATH/nvim.exe and PATH/bin/nvim.exe on windows.
As far as plugin settings, I said this in the main readme but not here - there’s a menu item and command palette option for opening the ActualVim user settings, and it will fill in the defaults if the settings didn’t exist yet.
No problem. Updated actualvim and pointed neovim_path directly to nvim.exe => It works, no error
messages any more
Also note Windows ActualVim has an input performance problem I haven’t tracked down yet: https://github.com/lunixbochs/actualvim/issues/32#issuecomment-282717630
I improved the heuristics, and it should be a little better in latest master.
Hello @lunixbochs,
thanks a lot for the wonderful plugin!
Recently I decided to finally abandon Emacs and returned back to (n)vim, but your plugin makes me enthusiastic to-revive usage of my ST3 licenses and get best of both worlds. 
I bet that (n)vim might have better plugins/completions, etc. for some stuff - eg. vim-go for Go language, while ST3 is strong(er) in some other fields like web technology (HTML, CSS, SASS etc.).
Caveats sections lists some currently problematic area, but I wonder, in general, is it possible/feasible to e.g. use both (n)vim/ST3 completion plugins at the same time without enabling/disabling ActualVim globally and/or locally?
This is already implemented. I expose the Sublime completions to vim as a completefunc, so you can hit ^X^U to get Sublime completions while Vim is enabled. I’m also going to hopefully remove the insert-mode input interception so Sublime can still show automatic completion/snippet popups, at which point I’ll query Vim for completion data too to make this work both ways.
The caveat is just that sublime won’t auto-suggest completions as you type, not that they don’t work.
Multiple selection should work extremely well when it’s done, but will take a bit of work to get going (I basically need to track selection 100% on Sublime side, and dispatch a different key to vim per selection, kinda… or wait for official neovim support for it).
The “undo” thing isn’t a huge issue right now (you should mostly just use vim undo), and the insert hack idea that will fix suggestion popups should fix undo too.
OK, I’ve to test it further…
That will be cool as well. 
What about ST3’s status bar to show me when I issuing normal mode’s stuff, e.g. to enter current date via
:!r date
?
One of the thing which I regularly use in vim and won’t give it up so easily is reformat-paragraph feature:
visual-mode j (for selection) gq
so, why e.g. the above snippet cannot produce result immediately, but I’ve to ‘leave’ (n)vim-mode by e.g. pressing Esc or something, iow. is it just a feature required to make the whole bridge working?
I’ve asked for the ability to anchor a phantom to the bottom of a view in Sublime. I don’t have any good ways to display that information yet (but :command line and search should show up in status bar right now)
so, why e.g. the above snippet cannot produce result immediately, but I’ve to ‘leave’ (n)vim-mode by e.g. pressing Esc or something, iow. is it just a feature required to make the whole bridge working?
This should be fixed in Neovim 0.2, which was recently released.
Hmm…trying with
:r !date
example, I do not see anything?
[quote]This should be fixed in Neovim 0.2, which was recently released.
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Great…I’m waiting to be released for my Fedora (f25) distro…
I can’t really guarantee anything before neovim 0.2, but I definitely see the status/search/command line on mine.
It would be nice if some Linux user can confirm whether there is an issue here? (I have access to neither Mac nor Win OS-es…)
You can debug the screen scraper (yes, that’s how I get the status line right now) with the Sublime console:
import ActualVim; print(ActualVim.neo.vim.screen)
import ActualVim; print(ActualVim.neo.vim.status_line)
Neovim is rather easy to build yourself as well, and you can set neovim_path in your ActualVim settings if you want to test a local build.
If status_line has the typed command but it’s not in the Sublime status bar, I know where the issue probably lies and have an easy fix if so.
After issuing the:
:r !date
command, I get the following:
`import ActualVim; print(ActualVim.neo.vim.screen)
:r /date
`
and
import ActualVim; print(ActualVim.neo.vim.status_line)
which shows the blank state of cursor.
[quote]Neovim is rather easy to build yourself as well, and you can set neovim_path in your ActualVim settings if you want to test a local build.
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Do you believe that 0.20 should behave better in this regard? In that case I’m going to try to build from the source…
Edit: I built nvim from the source (0.2.1-x), but the issue is still present.
In my case status_line is blank?
Printing ActualVim.neo.vim.screen should print a lot more than the command line. Have you customized your vim status line in init.vim? I don’t really have a way of supporting that yet. I’m waiting on neovim external command line support.
If you’ve customized, you can check the g:actualvim variable from vim config to disable plugins inside ActualVim.
Ahh, my mistake…I forgot that my init.vim is symlinked to the vim’s one. It works now… 
When does neovim plan to support that?
A decent substitute for now would be the ability to pin variable-height minihtml across the bottom of a view like the vim status bar, but I don’t know how to convince Sublime to add that, so I’m waiting on both sides for now 
I PoC’d a major hack that’s actually pretty good until you scroll or want to read the text at the bottom:
But I’m holding out for something more like this (at which point I’d personally just hide the Sublime status bar entirely)
