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Neovim in panes

thurm-nvim runs Neovim with each window in its own Thurm pane. One Neovim runs behind all the panes, so buffers, registers, undo history and language servers are shared.

Terminal window
thurm-nvim src/main.rs

Run it in a Thurm pane. It passes its arguments to nvim, and it uses your usual Neovim configuration and plugins.

  • :split and :vsplit open a Thurm split where Neovim places the new window. <C-w> moves between windows and moves the Thurm focus with them. Clicking a pane makes its window current.
  • Closing a pane closes its window. Unsaved changes stay in the buffer.
  • :q in the last window quits Neovim, and :qa closes every pane. The pane you started from goes back to your shell.
  • Pickers open as floating cards over the pane you were in: type in them as usual. A card follows its picker and closes with it, and closing the card closes the picker. This works for pickers built as one box of windows (Snacks, fzf-lua, mini.pick). For pickers made of separate windows, like Telescope, only the window with the focus moves into the card. Popups that never take the focus (the completion menu, a command-line popup, notifications) stay drawn inside the pane.
  • Each pane draws its window’s statusline. The command line and messages appear at the bottom of the current window’s pane, or in your plugin’s popup if you use one.

thurm-nvim ships with the app. Thurm › Integrations › Install Command-Line Tool links it into ~/.local/bin next to thurm. Without that link, run it by its full path; inside a Thurm pane $THURM_BIN_DIR holds that directory:

Terminal window
"$THURM_BIN_DIR/thurm-nvim" src/main.rs

On Linux it is in the release archive next to thurm and thurmd. Set THURM_NVIM to run a different nvim binary.

Limitations

Section titled “Limitations”
  • <C-w> resize, move and swap commands have no effect. Use Thurm’s pane controls instead.
  • There is one tab page. Neovim tab pages don’t map to Thurm tabs.
  • A pane you open in Thurm with Cmd+D runs a shell, not a new Neovim window.
  • Plugins that arrange windows (sidebars, layout managers) don’t get the placement they expect.
  • Long messages still show the “Press ENTER” prompt.