core support for connecting to remote UI via --server

[xelra]

I want to be able to connect to a Neovim session on another computer.

On the remote server I ran the following:

NVIM_LISTEN_ADDRESS=/tmp/nvim.socket nvim --headless

Then on the local machine I ran:

ssh -L /tmp/nvim.socket:/tmp/nvim.socket user@1.2.3.4
NVIM_LISTEN_ADDRESS=/tmp/nvim.socket nvim

Unfortunately that doesn't work though. Connecting to the socket via NVIM_LISTEN_ADDRESS is not possible. I've also tried it with NVIM_LISTEN_ADDRESS=/tmp/nvim.socket nvim-qt and NVIM_LISTEN_ADDRESS=/tmp/nvim.socket nyaovim.

Neovim-Qt has a --server option. Using that on my local machine nvim-qt --server /tmp/nvim.socket does work. So for now I can only connect to my remote nvim session with Neovim-Qt.

It would be great to see a --server option for the nvim binary too, so it's possible to also connect to remote Neovim sessions from the terminal.

[DoomHammer]

Hi! What's the current status of this? I have a Tmux plugin in mind that could use this.

I would like to have a global headless Neovim running all the time and be able to quickly open a new pane with Neovim UI connected to the headless instance. Tried some trickery with reptyr, but couldn't get any good results. Using break-pane and join-pane from tmux didn't help as well as it created a visilbe new window (I'd love it to be really background/transparent).

[bfredl]

abduco http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/abduco/ might be a more robust alternative to reptyr.

[DoomHammer]

Thanks for suggestion @bfredl !

[geekodour]

@bfredl is this a duplicate of #7438 ?
quoting justinmk's comment from that

Do you mean one could start a headless nvim in the background (maybe even a systemd unit) and then connect a TUI to it from any xterm window?

[bfredl]

well, this issue is older, so technically that one is duplicate of this :P