# Features This should be a standard, fully-featured Neovim GUI. Beyond that there are some visual niceties listed below :) ## Ligatures Supports ligatures and font shaping.

## Animated Cursor Cursor animates into position with a smear effect to improve tracking of cursor position.

## Smooth Scrolling Scroll operations on buffers in neovim will be animated smoothly pixel wise rather than line by line at a time. Note: [multigrid](command-line-reference.md#multigrid) must be enabled for this to work.

## Animated Windows Windows animate into position when they are moved making it easier to see how layout changes happen. Note: [multigrid](command-line-reference.md#multigrid) must be enabled for this to work.

## Blurred Floating Windows The backgrounds of floating windows are blurred improving the visual separation between foreground and background from built in window transparency. Note: [multigrid](command-line-reference.md#multigrid) must be enabled for this to work.

## Emoji Support Font fallback supports rendering of emoji not contained in the configured font.

## WSL Support Neovide supports displaying a full gui window from inside wsl via the `--wsl` command argument. Communication is passed via standard io into the wsl copy of neovim providing identical experience similar to Visual Studio Code's [Remote Editing](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/remote-overview). ## Remote TCP Support Neovide supports connecting to a remote instance of Neovim over a TCP socket via the `--remote-tcp` command argument. This would allow you to run Neovim on a remote machine and use the GUI on your local machine, connecting over the network. Launch Neovim as a TCP server (on port 6666) by running: ```sh nvim --headless --listen localhost:6666 ``` And then connect to it using: ```sh /path/to/neovide --remote-tcp=localhost:6666 ``` By specifying to listen on localhost, you only allow connections from your local computer. If you are actually doing this over a network you will want to use SSH port forwarding for security, and then connect as before. ```sh ssh -L 6666:localhost:6666 ip.of.other.machine nvim --headless --listen localhost:6666 ``` Finally, if you would like to leave the neovim server running, close the neovide application window instead of issuing a `:q` command. ## Some Nonsense ;) To learn how to configure the following, head on over to the [configuration](./configuration.md#cursor-particles) section! ### Railgun Railgun

### Torpedo Torpedo

### Pixiedust

### Sonic Boom Sonicboom

### Ripple Ripple

### Wireframe