u/OneFisherman168

Hey r/neovim,

I spent a few weekends building rnvim — a standalone Rust CLI that does one thing: connects your local Neovim UI to a Neovim instance running fully on a remote host.

Usage is just rnvim user@host, as long as both machines have nvim installed.

What makes it different:

• No local Neovim plugins needed — your init.lua stays untouched

• LSPs, plugins, and heavy indexing all run on the remote

• Auto-bootstraps the server binary on first connect, nothing to install manually

• Demo: https://asciinema.org/a/MPFHkDTLnFa6qoiM

• Repo: https://github.com/GNITOAHC/remote-ssh.nvim

This is my first contribution to the Neovim community, so I'd really appreciate any feedback — whether it's a bug, a missing feature, or just thoughts on the approach. Feel free to share it if you think others would find it useful!