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Updated Introduction (markdown)

Justin M. Keyes 2014-05-25 15:36:49 -07:00
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Introduction.md

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* [Legacy support and compile-time features](#legacy)
* [Platform-specific code](#platform)
* [Development on GitHub](#development)
* [New plugin architecture](https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Plugin-UI-architecture)
* [New plugin architecture](#new-plugin-architecture)
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### Migrate to a CMake-based build
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[libuv]: https://github.com/joyent/libuv
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### New plugin architecture
All code supporting embedded scripting language interpreters will be replaced by
a new plugin system that will support extensions written in any programming
language.
Compatibility layers will be provided for vim plugins written in some of the
Compatibility layers will be provided for legacy Vim plugins written in some of the
currently supported scripting languages such as Python or Ruby. Most plugins
should work on neovim with little modifications, if any.
should work on Neovim with little modifications, if any.
This is how the new plugin system will work:
This is how the Neovim plugin system works:
- Plugins are long-running programs/jobs (coprocesses) that communicate with vim
through stdin/stdout using msgpack-rpc or json-rpc.
- Vim will discover and run these programs at startup, keeping two-way
- Neovim discovers and runs these programs at startup, keeping two-way
communication channels with each plugin through its lifetime.
- Plugins will be able to listen to events and send commands to vim
asynchronously.
That shows a hypothetical conversation between neovim and a completion plugin
That shows a hypothetical conversation between Neovim and a completion plugin
which displays completions when the user presses Ctrl+Space. The above scheme
gives neovim near limitless extensibility and also improves stability as plugins
will be automatically isolated from the main executable.