[nickelbox]

Haven't really looked at the source, but is the neovim dependence just for starting ranger async? In that case vim 8 support might come soon?

I have a neovim build, but I tried out SpaceVim on it and just went back to a very lightly patched vim since SpaceVim felt too bloated and I've been too lazy to clean it all up.

[ipod825]

No. It's more like to implement ranger's functionality using neovim's rplugin framework. Vim8 support would require other framework such as nvim-yarp.