neovim-qt as a proper MacOS application

[bboles]

Thanks for for neovim-qt! It has been critical for me in moving to Neovim!

I know that there has been some effort to get neovim-qt setup as a proper MacOS application:
#850
#848

I did not find any additional activity regarding this effort. Can you tell me the status of setting up neovim-qt so that it behaves like a MacOS app, mainly grouping together multiple windows of neovim-qt in the dock?

[equalsraf]

Currently no one is working on this that I know of.

From 848 the changes were merged and a function was added to spawn a window e.g. :call GuiNewWindow({}). That much seems to work here, but this is not a feature I have used much, so I can't offer much more information.

In a nutshell

1. if you want a new window try :call GuiNewWindow({}) this will be a completely separate neovim with NO shared buffers, tabs, etc. The help docs describes the arguments, but in most cases I think calling it with an empty dict is what you want
2. We do not currently support a way to start a second neovim-qt window from outside neovim

Concerning point 2. last time we discussed it we did not have a solution to choose which window a file should open on. neovim-qt does support open -a nvim-qt but I am unsure how it currently behaves (i think it opens the file in the first window).

I would also note that things have changed in the neovim side since this was implemented. nvim now has --server and --remote, --remote-send, etc. So maybe there are better solutions using those options.

You can probably hack something such as nvim --server /path/to/nvim.socket --remote-send ':call GuiNewWindow({})<CR>' if you already know the correct argument for the --server option.

Note: looks like we lack a GuiNewWindow command. Should be easy to fix.