nvim-hs: Haskell plugin backend for neovim
This package provides a plugin provider for neovim. It allows you to write plugins for one of the great editors of our time in the best programming language of our time! ;-)
You should find all the documentation you need inside the Neovim module. Most other modules are considered internal, so don't be annoyed if using things from there may break your code!
The following modules may also be of interest and they should not change their API: Neovim.Quickfix
If you want to write unit tests that interact with neovim, Neovim.Test provides some useful functions for that.
If you are keen to debug nvim-hs or a module you are writing, take a look at the Neovim.Debug module.
If you spot any errors or if you have great ideas, feel free to open an issue on github.
[Skip to Readme]
Modules
[Index] [Quick Jump]
Downloads
- nvim-hs-2.1.0.4.tar.gz [browse] (Cabal source package)
- Package description (revised from the package)
Note: This package has metadata revisions in the cabal description newer than included in the tarball. To unpack the package including the revisions, use 'cabal get'.
Maintainer's Corner
For package maintainers and hackage trustees
Candidates
| Versions [RSS] | 0.0.1, 0.0.2, 0.0.3, 0.0.5, 0.0.6, 0.0.7, 0.0.8, 0.1.0, 0.2.0, 0.2.1, 0.2.2, 0.2.3, 0.2.4, 0.2.5, 1.0.0.0, 1.0.0.1, 1.0.0.2, 1.0.0.3, 2.0.0.0, 2.1.0.0, 2.1.0.2, 2.1.0.3, 2.1.0.4, 2.1.0.5, 2.1.0.7, 2.2.0.0, 2.2.0.1, 2.2.0.2, 2.2.0.3, 2.3.0.0, 2.3.1.0, 2.3.2.0, 2.3.2.1, 2.3.2.3 (info) |
|---|---|
| Change log | CHANGELOG.md |
| Dependencies | base (>=4.9 && <5), bytestring, cereal, cereal-conduit (>=0.8.0), conduit (>=1.3.0), containers, data-default, deepseq (>=1.1 && <1.5), foreign-store, hslogger, megaparsec (<10), messagepack (>=0.5.4), mtl (>=2.2.1 && <2.3), network, optparse-applicative, path, path-io, prettyprinter (>=1.2 && <2), prettyprinter-ansi-terminal, resourcet (>=1.1.11), stm, streaming-commons, template-haskell (<2.17.0), text, time, time-locale-compat, transformers, transformers-base, typed-process, unliftio (>=0.2), unliftio-core (>=0.2), utf8-string, vector, void [details] |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Copyright | Copyright 2017-2018 Sebastian Witte <woozletoff@gmail.com> |
| Author | Sebastian Witte |
| Maintainer | woozletoff@gmail.com |
| Revised | Revision 2 made by saep at 2021-06-22T12:33:35Z |
| Category | Editor |
| Home page | https://github.com/neovimhaskell/nvim-hs |
| Source repo | head: git clone https://github.com/neovimhaskell/nvim-hs |
| Uploaded | by saep at 2020-07-07T18:19:04Z |
| Distributions | LTSHaskell:2.3.2.3, NixOS:2.3.2.3, Stackage:2.3.2.3 |
| Reverse Dependencies | 7 direct, 1 indirect [details] |
| Downloads | 11941 total (104 in the last 30 days) |
| Rating | 2.5 (votes: 6) [estimated by Bayesian average] |
| Your Rating | |
| Status | Docs available [build log] Last success reported on 2020-07-07 [all 1 reports] |
Readme for nvim-hs-2.1.0.4
[back to package description]nvim-hs
Neovim API for Haskell plugins as well as a plugin provider. This library and executable should provide a basis for developing plugins. This package should only contain broadly useful interfaces to write plugins for neovim in haskell. The design goal is to create an easy to use API that avoids most of the boilerplate while still retaining some sense of reliability and type safety. Since Template Haskell is used to generate the neovim bindings and to avoid some of the boilerplate handy work, some exotic operating systems and architectures may not work.
What do I have to expect if I were to use it now?
Check the issue list here on github.
How do I start using this?
You need to install a neovim plugin that manages starting of nvim-hs plugins.
Just follow the instructions here:
nvim-hs.vim
Once you have installed that plugin, you can use nvim-hs plugins as you would
normal vim plugins. Every plugin is started as a separate process which should
be fine unless you have a lot of them.
You only have to read on if you want to start "scripting" functions or plugins yourself in Haskell.
Scripting with Haskell
The entry point for all Haskell-based scripts is a plugin.
An nvim-hs plugin is a plain Haskell project with two conventions:
-
You need an executable that starts a
msgpack-rpccompatible client. -
You need a tiny bit of
vimLin your runtime path that starts the plugin.
The simplest way to get started is the stack template from this
repository/package inside your neovim configuration folder which
will be described here. (Alternatively, you can manually create a project
and do everything that is explained in :help nvim-hs.txt which should be
available if you installed the plugin mentioned in the previous section.)
You need to install stack
and have the neovim executable on the path.
(The API code generation calls nvim --api-info.)
Afterwards, you switch to your neovim configuration folder (typically ~/.config/nvim) and
you have to create your plugin project.
cd ~/.config/nvim
stack new my-nvim-hs https://raw.githubusercontent.com/neovimhaskell/nvim-hs/master/stack-template.hsfiles --bare --omit-packages --ignore-subdirs
If you start neovim now, it will compile the example plugins which may take a few minutes. Once it is started you can use the predefined functions from the template.
:echo NextRandom()
should print a random number.
To start writing your own functions and plugins, read through the files generated by the template accompanied by the library documentation on hackage.
Contributing
Documentation, typo fixes and alike will almost always be merged.
If you want to bring forward new features or convenience libraries
for interacting with neovim, you should create an issue first. The features
of this (cabal) project should be kept small as this helps
reducing the development time. (For some tests it is
necessary to issue cabal install, so any change to to a module can
significantly increase the compilation time.)
If your idea solves a general problem, feel free to open an issue in the
library project of nvim-hs:
nvim-hs-contrib