> they removed gvim (which is what I use in most cases). There is no comparable third party GUI like gvim available. They're all either abandoned, unstable or simply very different with lots of bling and gimmicks.
I'm not sure I understand what you're missing from neovim-qt?
Thanks. I'd previously tried and failed a couple of times to get a NeoVim gui installed, mainly because I wanted to try one of those ligature fonts that display -> as → and the like. There seemed to be a few different options, in various states of being abandoned, or unpackaged, or needing libraries not in my OS, or ...
Turns out now all that's needed for Ubuntu is sudo apt install neovim-qt. Thank you for prompting me to look at this again.
However, on running it, the window seemed very wide, so one of the first things I tried was `:set columns=80` — and nothing happened. Checking :h 'co`, it looks like it's supposed to work.
I'm not sure I understand what you're missing from neovim-qt?
https://github.com/equalsraf/neovim-qt
I suppose maybe we have diffuse cases - but I'm fairly certain I'm running qt neovim, and not nvim in a terminal - and I'm not aware of any issues?