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Much like you, I think I'm probably the target audience for this.

One of the things that stops me from using neovim - regardless of any changes I'd like - is the removal of gvim. I like my gvim candy; SVG icons in sign columns, better modifier support in maps, drag and drop when in command line, $things_ive_forgot_i_use.

Likewise, I also believe the idea of onivim is worth a licence fee, even it turns out I can't get behind it. It just feels like one of those projects I want to see succeed, even if it isn't for me.

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Onivim has a high chance of becoming the best heavyweight GUI Vim IDE distribution over the coming years. I bought a once-off lifetime commercial license a good while ago and now get nightly updates. I wish the team all the success in the world.

There are external NeoVim GUIs though, for example Neovide[1].

[1] https://github.com/Kethku/neovide

Yeah, I've tried a few. I can't quite put my finger on what is wrong, but the ones I've tried just don't feel right.

gnvim¹ was the most usable for me. However, it isn't without problems for my use case. To use my earlier example, switching would mean patching fonts or using overrides in fonts.conf to fake the use of icons in signs.

I did take another look just now², and there a few more for me to try out ;)

¹ https://github.com/vhakulinen/gnvim ² https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Related-projects

They need to move abandoned projects into another table to avoid confusion.