How to open file in new tab from command line on Windows

Thanks for this amazing frontend for Neovim!

I try to open one file using fvim in a new tab from the command line on Windows. In GVim, it has a --remote-tab-silent option to achieve. Native neovim did not support that (https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/11493). On Mac and Linux, it can be achieved using the neovim-remote which did not work well on Windows (https://github.com/mhinz/neovim-remote/issues/133). I saw fvim has already implemented the --nvr parameter cross-platform. But due to my limited knowledge, I didn’t know how to do that in command line.

I tried to follow https://github.com/equalsraf/neovim-qt/issues/610#issue-523353515 by running below command in CMD:

nvim --listen 127.0.0.1:10710 --headless "test.txt" | fvim --nvr 127.0.0.1:10710

But I have to open a CMD and keep it open which is kind of urgly. Could you give some guides on how to achieve the similar behavior of Gvim --remote-tab-silient using fvim? Thanks!

[yatli]

Oh I think I get what you mean now. You want to send an edit command to a live session… Currently this is not supported. I’ll consider adding this feature.

Alternatively just drag a file to the window (

[yatli]

I also got this problem when I wanted to set up inverse search for latex files. I really wish nvr would solve the problem though – the only missing part is that you cannot run nvr outside the neovim process scope.

To work around that, FVim will have to set a global environment variable so that an “external” nvr picks it up.

Note to self: echo v:servername