Quicksilver VS vim-lsp

Compare Quicksilver vs vim-lsp and see what are their differences.

vim-lsp

async language server protocol plugin for vim and neovim (by prabirshrestha)
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Quicksilver vim-lsp
16 81
2,706 3,019
0.3% -
7.0 6.4
about 1 month ago 13 days ago
Objective-C Vim Script
Apache License 2.0 MIT License
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Quicksilver

Posts with mentions or reviews of Quicksilver. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-25.
  • The Largest Money-Printing Element Ever Made
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Dec 2023
    Pretty sure it was Nicholas Jitkoff[1] and his team. He had done Quicksilver[2] a few years back which popularized this single input interface for osx desktop.

    [1] https://nicholas.jitkoff.com/

    [2] https://qsapp.com/

  • Should I worry about using Raycast on MacOS?
    4 projects | /r/privacy | 25 Apr 2023
    There are these open source alternatives, I haven’t checked their privacy policies or their code Maybe try and report back? https://www.cerebroapp.com https://qsapp.com https://ueli.app https://github.com/ParthJadhav/Verve
  • Keyboard tricks from a macOS app dev
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Apr 2023
    I've used Quicksilver for clipboard history historically. There is a currently a bug that I've been meaning to delve into: https://github.com/quicksilver/Quicksilver/issues/2913 but still generally usable. Particularly handy combined with adding simple AppleScript or JXA actions to manipulate the content (I have several simple ones for example to run a regex, to clean extraneous content around a number, a phone number, strip whitespace, indent 4 spaces for pasting into a markdown codeblock on SO, etc etc).

    The Shelf plug-in also very handy along similar lines.

  • The best Mac Apps to unlock your max potential (recommended by users of r/MacOs )
    13 projects | /r/MacOS | 22 Mar 2023
    Should add Quicksilver. It's the first app I install on my Macs
  • Boomer Wants to Learn Mac
    11 projects | /r/MacOS | 11 Mar 2023
    Spotlight-esque apps for enhanced keyboard driven productivity (pick one): Raycast Alfred Quicksilver
  • Why is Spotlight garbage these days?
    1 project | /r/apple | 19 Feb 2023
    Quicksilver
  • Resolving the Great Undo-Redo Quandary
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Nov 2022
    For a browsable clipboard history on macOS, I recommend LaunchBar (https://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/; docs at https://www.obdev.at/resources/launchbar/help/ClipboardHisto...). I used to use the Clipboard Plugin of the free and open source app Quicksilver (https://qsapp.com/), which worked fine but was slightly less streamlined. Some people prefer Alfred (https://www.alfredapp.com/help/features/clipboard/).
  • Shortcat – Manipulate macOS masterfully, minus the mouse
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Oct 2022
    This is great. Reminds me of QuickSilver[1]. I'm evaluating HomeRow[2] for a VIM driving the Mac OS, will try this as well.

    I love how:

    a. accessibility features are making the OS more accessible for everyone through automation

    b. good the accessibility implementation is on the Mac that most applications are inherently compatible with solutions like this.

    [1]: https://qsapp.com/

    [2]: https://www.homerow.app/

  • Sol: Open-source Alfred/Raycast alternative for macOS
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Aug 2022
    Good to see something like this, don't forget there is already an open source alternative (pre-existing) for Alfred and Raycast. It's called Quicksilver - https://qsapp.com
  • Albert – open-source keyboard launcher for Linux
    16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Jun 2022
    Kupfer (gnome) - https://kupferlauncher.github.io

    Quicksilver (macos): https://qsapp.com/

    I still find myself using these and enjoy the 'wei wu wei' flow of them: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d4LkTstvUL4 (skip to 5 or 11 minutes in)

vim-lsp

Posts with mentions or reviews of vim-lsp. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-27.
  • Using SonarLint language server in Vim?
    4 projects | /r/vim | 27 Oct 2023
    Has anybody managed or got an idea how to make SonarLint Language Server work with e.g. vim-lsp?
  • Vim Golang syntax is ugly
    4 projects | /r/vim | 28 May 2023
    You need to configure a language server. For C++ it's a bit tricky, so good luck with Go. There are other plugins that provide semantic highlighting using LSP, for example https://github.com/prabirshrestha/vim-lsp (I didn't try it, but it seems good).
  • Vim-writegood: nothing, but a simple Vim9 wrapper around write-good.
    5 projects | /r/vim | 21 May 2023
    ALE can use LSP as well. And if you are using vim-lsp, you can use the same instance of server for both with vim-lsp-ale bridge plugin.
  • small vimrc and lsp?
    4 projects | /r/vim | 15 May 2023
    I feel the same way. Not a one-liner but the smallest config LSP plugin I've found is vim-lsp. It works in both Vim and Neovim.
  • Should I move to NeoVim?
    4 projects | /r/neovim | 25 Apr 2023
    The only major feature that Neovim still has is a built in LSP client. But I find the built in Neovim LSP client is unusably buggy, you're much better off using any of the other LSP plugins. What I use is vim-lsp, but I've tried all of the major lsp client, they are all significantly better than the built in Neovim LSP.
  • Starting with linux, my experience
    3 projects | /r/linux4noobs | 17 Apr 2023
  • Does vim have a built in/plugin version of vscode's command click?
    2 projects | /r/vim | 14 Apr 2023
  • install lsp in vim
    3 projects | /r/vim | 27 Mar 2023
    As for install/configuration, all you need is the latest Vim, the plugins I mentioned, and that bit in your vimrc. You can do a bit better than that if you copy the entire config with mappings from the vim-lsp GitHub page.
  • How to improve deoplete and vim-lsp (pylsp /jedi-language-server)
    3 projects | /r/vim | 22 Mar 2023
    I have a problem with Deoplete and Vim-LSP completion (Python's Pylsp and Jedi-Language-Server). The suggestion is much less, and it also misses a lot of opportunities to suggest compared to Deoplete-Jedi, which literally defeats the former by a large margin. Is there a setting to make this duo works like deoplete with deoplete-jedi?
  • The Ruff python linter is insanely good
    10 projects | /r/Python | 16 Mar 2023
    - add the [prabirshrestha/vim-lsp](https://github.com/prabirshrestha/vim-lsp) plugin and config to your `.vimrc` (note: `pylsp` is *not* necessary).

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Quicksilver and vim-lsp you can also consider the following projects:

hammerspoon - Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua

coc.nvim - Nodejs extension host for vim & neovim, load extensions like VSCode and host language servers.

alfred-shortcuts

ale - Check syntax in Vim/Neovim asynchronously and fix files, with Language Server Protocol (LSP) support

photon - ⚡ Rust/WebAssembly image processing library

YouCompleteMe - A code-completion engine for Vim

company-mode - Modular in-buffer completion framework for Emacs

python-lsp-server - Fork of the python-language-server project, maintained by the Spyder IDE team and the community

sol - MacOS launcher & command palette

vim-lsc - A vim plugin for communicating with a language server

KE-complex_modifications - Karabiner-Elements complex_modifications rules

jedi-language-server - A Python language server exclusively for Jedi. If Jedi supports it well, this language server should too.