Vim: Neovim Integration not work on Windows

Created on 19 Jun 2017 · 11Comments · Source: VSCodeVim/Vim

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Environment:

VSCode Version: 1.13.1
VsCodeVim Version: 0.8.6
OS: Windows 10 Creators Update

What happened:

An error occur: Unable to setup neovim instance! Check your path.

Here is my config

    "vim.neovimPath": "C:\\Neovim",
    "vim.enableNeovim": true

I have tried changing neovimPath to the bin folder, but it doesn't work neither.

Source

vincentdchan

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Most helpful comment

I took hours to find out a neovim executable is needed for this, that's really bad documentation...
Why not mention this right at the first line? I never new there was a neovim thing in the first place.

christianburger on 29 Aug 2017

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you have to point it to the .exe specifically

xconverge on 19 Jun 2017

@xconverge Thx, it's works. Somebody should add it in the document.

vincentdchan on 19 Jun 2017

If you mouse over vim.neovimPath I had updated the tooltip help in the latest release.

xconverge on 19 Jun 2017

@xconverge Yeah, maybe, I haven't noticed that. But a vim user seldom use his mouse , right?🙃

vincentdchan on 20 Jun 2017

gh will show you ;)

xconverge on 20 Jun 2017

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christianburger on 29 Aug 2017

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@christianburger Where do you expect us to place this documentation? It's right in the settings.

Chillee on 29 Aug 2017

I have to agree with @christianburger here.

My expectations when installing a VsCode plugin is that I find the plugin I want, click the install button, click reload, and it works.

What I got here was click install, click reload, and then get an error about Neovim executable paths. What is neovim? Did I need to install that before I installed this plugin? How was I supposed to know that?

I see no documentation anywhere that says this plugin has an external dependency on another application. And that's what @christianburger is getting at: how was I supposed to know that I needed to install something else to make this work?

tdunnington on 23 Jan 2018

@tdunnington You shouldn't be getting any kind of error about a "neovim executable" unless you enable neovim.

If you don't touch the settings, the typical flow should be as you're used to.

Chillee on 23 Jan 2018

@Chillee gotcha, I see now!

There was a setting in my setting file to enable neovim. I'm not sure why it was there other than I must have had this plugin installed before at one point. I don't know why that setting was in my config. But I just removed it and WHALA, plugin works as expected. Thanks sir!

tdunnington on 23 Jan 2018

I had the same issue. The 'neovim enable' setting was true (I didn't set it myself). The error about the neovim path just showed up after I installed the vim integration plugin. Anyways, I see now neovim is only needed for a subset of features and I can simple disable it instead of jumping through hoops to getting it installed and setting up the path.