Release of Nvim-remote

[mauricekraus]

Hey,

I saw your post on Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/qm9lf5/remote_containers_development_in_nvim/).

Do you plan to continue the project, especially now having nvim-remote integrated?

If you give me a good starting point, I'd be happy to contribute.

[GustavoKatel]

yes, I plan to continue this project, but I'm waiting a bit on this issue: neovim/neovim#10071

right now this project has the bare minimum and works ok, but if you see the readme in the root you see that there's some missing features, it would be nice to have that completed. Also it's been a while since I checked for new features in the official reference: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/devcontainerjson-reference

[sisrfeng]

I think the title should be release of nvim-remote-containers
see: https://github.com/jamestthompson3/nvim-remote-containers

[radwo]

Hi!

Thanks for your previous work on this project!

Lately, neovim/neovim#10071 was merged in neovim/neovim#18375.

Do you still have plans to work on it?

[GustavoKatel]

yes, but I don't have a clear timeline to when I can start, I'm busy with another project atm. I'm open to contributions on this tho. happy to guide anyone interested in helping out.

[c3n21]

yes, but I don't have a clear timeline to when I can start, I'm busy with another project atm. I'm open to contributions on this tho. happy to guide anyone interested in helping out.

I would really love to see such feature merged.

My idea would be bind mounting NeoVim's extracted AppImage and use it as a TUI server, so that locally we can run nvim --remote-ui to attach to NeoVim running inside the container.

Also this would also mean to bind mount come XDG_* directories, but with rootless containers shouldn't be a real issue no?

Also, such configuration I think that shouldn't be saved in project's .devcontainer.json but should be something local to the user, for instance a "global" ~/.config/devcontainer-rs/devcontainer.json that will integrate those configuration in project's configuration, and should only configure NeoVim's server instance (or other editor specific configuration for devcontainers integration) and does the bind mount of XDG_* directories.

[GustavoKatel]

tbh I thinks this is already possible. it already supports loading a config from the home folder and merge with the project folder. see: https://github.com/GustavoKatel/devcontainers-rs#how-to

in 2.1 - Starting editor/ide after setting up containers: try replacing nvim-qt with the TUI

PS.: I haven't tested, so lmk if that works

[GustavoKatel]

what's missing is getting the spec reference for devcontainer.json up to date with the new features and breaking changes. so bc of that, the container might get a little weird when compared with vscode. not sure how far the diff goes.