Neovim is a modal text editor forked off of Vim in 2014. Being modal means that you do not simply type text on screen, but the behavior and functionality of the editor changes entirely depending on the mode.
The most common and most used mode, the "normal mode" for Neovim is to essentially turn your keyboard in to hotkeys with which you can navigate and manipulate text. Several modes exist, but two other most common ones are "insert mode" where you type in text directly as if it was a traditional text editor, and "visual mode" where you select text.
Neovim seeks to enable further community participation in its development and to make drastic changes without turning it in to something that is "not Vim". Neovim also seeks to enable embedding the editor within GUI applications.
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Any ideas?
Pandoc allows conversion from and to various formats. You could use an autocmd to generate a rendered version of your document and access this version with your web browser. In your browser you could use an extension that automatically refreshes a tab every x seconds.
Would be a very manual and not-so-elegant variant, but hey :)
The conversion is not an issue, there are already multiple tools for that, including a browser plugin with auto refresh.
However the tight integration with the editor, in this case neovim, is missing. At the bare minimum it should show the changed area curently being edited, ideally scroll with the editor scrolling like with common markdown extensions. Currently it just shows a static site that refreshs.
Prescript: I am by no means a programmer, and input to follow is likely useless.
Have you looked at Markdown plugins that otherwise align with what you are looking for to see if there are usable approaches to be adopted? Or maybe even contribute a PR to one of those projects for Asciioc support?
In any case, I recently fell in love with Asciioc and selfishly hope you are successful!
I had a similar idea, however i haven't seen a markdown plugin, that is well maintained and at the same time simple enough, so that the core, in this case markdown, can easily be replaced with a completely different engine, asciidoctor.
Any recommendations for that?
I also thought about changing neorg, but the missing support for treesitter is a k.o. for asciidoc.