RNS

Something something write your Neovim configurations in C. Highly experimental, almost fully untested. If you look at this and go "wow what a great idea, I will start using this project right this instance!" I have unfortunate news for your friends and family and it involves you being sent to a mental hospital.

Inspired by CatNvim.

Usage

Warning

The API might change, at any given time and without notice. This is not intended for public use (or any use, really) and I will not make any attempts to keep the library or its API stable.

Build rns as a shared library:

# This will create target/release/librns.so
cargo build --release

Move it to your working directory, and you may begin interfacing with the resulting shared library in C.

cp target/release/librns.so ./librns.so

Write your configuration in C, and then compile it with librns in your library path. Note that you will also need librns.so in Neovim's LD_LIBRARY_PATH later on.

# Replace target/release with where you have placed librns
gcc -o init.so -shared -fPIC init.c -Ltarget/release -lrns -Wl,-rpath,./

Now you can load your new, compiled configuration:

-- init.lua
package.cpath = package.cpath .. ";./?.so"
local init = require("init")

# Ensure that librns.so is in Neovim's library path before
# you run this. Otherwise your configuration will not be
# loaded.
nvim --clean -u path/to/your/init.lua

Now you may evaluate your life choices and consider how you even got here! Enjoy.