FTerm.nvim VS nvim-lua-guide

To achieve our goals of fingertip access nirvana, we are going to be using a plugin called FTerm.nvim.

i use F2 to toggle Fterm

IIUC this request https://github.com/numToStr/FTerm.nvim/issues/67 is also similar to your use case. I might implement this in FTerm.nvim but I have to study the client-remote thingy.

Have you checked out https://github.com/numToStr/FTerm.nvim?

gitui inside FTerm.nvim has been my preferred method to interact with git from within nvim. gitui has indeed proven to be a great frontend to git.

I did a bit of hunting and came across FTerm.nvim and I immediately notice that it is created and maintained by numToStr who also maintains Comment.nvim which is my preferred Neovim commenting plugin, which has always always worked great.

If you’re talking about the terminal inside a floating window, I think fterm.nvim is one which people commonly use.

I use https://github.com/numToStr/FTerm.nvim since you can specify in the setup which shell to use

It only work for very simple situation (project with only one build target), but it quite save a lot of time for me. For much complex situation, I prefer to write a singe bash script for specific project, and run them in FTerm

Nvim Lua guide

My main struggles beyond a simple problem are just the inability to find a way to easily debug things and the general process for setting up a plugin. I mostly work with Python/Jupyter, some C and Lua/Bash scripts, and usually you can either write tests/print debug for smaller scale things or get some stack trace if you have an error. With Neovim development, it just feels like there's nothing more besides update plugin, try on neovim, fail, bash head against wall, and repeat, and that doesn't quite seem efficient or correct - I'm sure there's something out there that should make the process easier. I tried looking online but I haven't found many that really fit my needs (most of the resources here seem more targeted towards creating your own init.lua, and Luadev plugin's commands are all broken (:Luadev-RunLine and any other command keeps telling me I got some trailing space). I'm really just looking to see how to make a snippet library, but there doesn't seem to be much that helps me. If someone could let me know how they debug their plugin or point me to any external resources, please let me know!

I have no guidance for the first point. For the second, checkout the neovim lua guide or : lua-guide

A quick google search turned up this codeacademy class on learning to program in Javascript. I didn't vet the whole thing, but it appears to assume you know nothing, which is what you need. If you go through that, you can then consume one of the resources that /u/luascriptdev post to equate that back to Lua. Again, the concepts translate.