alt Hacker NewsYou can already do this in vim. Pretty easy to shell out to whatever command you want and use the result for various purposes.
You can already do this in vim. Pretty easy to shell out to whatever command you want and use the result for various purposes.
That's still built on top of the hardcoded vim design choices though.
For example, I really like the "select then edit" approach of Helix, but Vim doesn't really play nice with that (there may be better plugins since I last looked to be fair). File handling, buffer rendering, and frames have very little to do with that, and yet I have to switch editors, lose all my plugins and configurations, and switch all those subsystems at once.
There's missed opportunities for modularization.
Edit: looks like Neovim is already split from its UI.