deprecation notice

I no longer use use Neovim+Konsole so, I do not maintain this repo anymore. Just use Alacritty with necessary configurations . For eg: see my dot files

neovim-konsole

This is a wrapper script and configurations files for running nvim as gui text editor in my Ubunutu desktop.

I tried to avoid most of key-binding limitations of a console vim. this wrapper enable us to use

• <C-S>
• <C-PageUP>, <C-PageDown>
• <C-S-PageUp>, <C-S-PageDown>
• Able to map <CR> <C-CR> <C-S-CR> etc.. etc..

Then main reason to choose Konsole terminal emulator is its true-color support and its configurable keybinding mechanism

This repo also contains desktop configuration files and resized icons required for linux desktop environments

About true color support and cursor shape.

True color support

Before this breaking change, Truecolor support was working by setting NVIM_TUI_ENABLE_TRUE_COLOR environment variable.

Now , it changed to set termguicolors vim command.

Cursor shape

Before this breaking change, Cursor shape change was working by

• Setting NVIM_TUI_ENABLE_CURSOR_SHAPE environment variable and,
• executing vim command let &t_SI = "\<Esc>]50;CursorShape=1\x7" | let &t_SR = "\<Esc>]50;CursorShape=2\x7" | let &t_EI = "\<Esc>]50;CursorShape=0\x7" inside vim.

Now, it is changed to following vim command

• set guicursor=n-c:block,i-ci-ve:ver40,r-cr-v:hor20,o:hor50,a:blinkwait700-blinkoff400-blinkon250-Cursor/lCursor,sm:block-blinkwait175-blinkoff150-blinkon175

Neovim uses some environment variables such as VTE_VERSTION to detect vte based terminal such as gnome-termnal, KONSOLE_* environment variables to detect konsole terminal

Since konsole is not compatible with DECSCUSR sequences, nvim talks to konsole in a different way.

if we are running nvim-konsole from gnome-termnal , unset VTE_VERSTION is required for proper working of cursor shape. It is done by default by nvim-konsole script

Installation

Install with installer-scripts

installer-scripts.sh install https://github.com/harish2704/neovim-konsole

Install manually

• cd Application_dir;
• ./install.sh

Mapping keycodes

Suppose a key binding ( Eg: <C-CR> ) is not able map in console vim. Then we can fix this in the following way

• Open any Neovim client which supports that key binding ( Eg: here, I opened Neovim python-client for GTK )
• enter :terminal
• then, enter sed -n l
• Press your Key binding
• Now, you can see the corresponding terminal keycode for your shortcut.
• Now, Edit your Konsole keytab file ( @ $HOME/.kde/share/apps/konsole ) and add an appropriate entry.

Screen shot

Related links

• My Neovim config files ( https://github.com/harish2704/dotFiles/blob/master/home/.config/nvim/init.vim )
• A fully configurable file manager called SpaceFM . Those who like Vim will also like this