About The Project

Sometimes you have to work with Windows but still want to use your favorite editor, neovim. This little project will help you integrate neovim into your daily Windows Explorer usage, by allowing to double-click files and open them in a new neovim tab. Of course, this tool can also be used on Linux.

Getting Started

Installation

1. Make sure Neovim and Neovide are installed
2. Add the directories with your Neovim and Neovide binaries to your PATH variable
3. Install Rust via rustup for example
4. Clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/cschlaak/nvimopen.git

5. Build the project

   cargo build

6. Copy the produced nvimopen binary to a place where you (and your PATH variable) can find it (optional)

Usage

• Open a single file

  nvimopen file.txt

• Open a file and jump to a line

  nvimopen file.txt:22

• Open multiple files

  nvimopen file1.txt:22 file2.txt

Explorer Setup

• open file properties and select default application (nvimopen.exe) under "Opens with"

  

• your explorer will now show the corresponding icon on files that are opened with nvimopen, and thus in a new tab of your running neovim instance: