README.md

March 19, 2020 ยท View on GitHub

Paravim is an editor for Nim powered by Vim (via libvim) and rendered with OpenGL (via paranim). There are two ways to run it:

  1. As a standalone executable. That is what this repo contains. To build it, install Nim and do:
nimble install pvim

Then, as long as you have ~/.nimble/bin on your PATH, you should be able to run pvim in any directory.

  1. Embedded inside a game. The core of pvim is in a separate library that can be run inside a paranim game.

A few notes for linux users:

  1. On Ubuntu, if pvim fails to build, you may need to install X11 and OpenGL related libraries with sudo apt install xorg-dev libgl1-mesa-dev
  2. On Ubuntu, if pvim fails to load, try sudo apt install libtinfo5
  3. On Arch, if pvim fails to load, you may need to do sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libtinfo.so.6 /usr/lib/libtinfo.so.5