dein.vim
:zap: Dark powered Vim/Neovim plugin manager (by Shougo)
fern.vim
🌿 General purpose asynchronous tree viewer written in Pure Vim script (by lambdalisue)
| dein.vim | fern.vim | |
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| 5 | 23 | |
| 3,400 | 1,236 | |
| - | - | |
| 7.8 | 6.8 | |
| 2 months ago | about 2 months ago | |
| Vim Script | Vim Script | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
dein.vim
Posts with mentions or reviews of dein.vim.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-09.
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Less known package managers
For myself, I have only used Dein from the day I switched to Neovim and haven't switched since.
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help with plugins in vim
Dein: A super light and fast plugin manager
- FAVOURITE PLUGINS
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How do plug#begin and plug#end() work?
https://github.com/Shougo/dein.vim https://github.com/Shougo/shougo-s-github/tree/master/vim/rc See shougos vimrc for proper use
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A productive command-line Git workflow for indie app developers
Plugins are managed with dein.vim
fern.vim
Posts with mentions or reviews of fern.vim.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-26.
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Which file explorer do you use?
fern.vim
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Nvim-tree or ??
fern.vim is my current favorite.
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Fern.vim now supports nvim-web-devicons
Fern.vim is a fantastic asynchronous tree viewer plugin written in pure vimpscript developed by [lambalisue][https://github.com/lambdalisue).
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Need a faster and lightweight file tree
I'd be interested in hearing if fern doesn't do what you want.
- what is your startup time?
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Fernvim a high availability high performance and modern config
There is a long established plugin named fern.vim that has nearly 1,000 stars.
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Can I have icons in netrw?
I don't think you can, but it's possible with Fern: https://github.com/lambdalisue/fern.vim
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fern.vim file tree now supports Neovim's winbar
One of the reasons I like fern.vim is that it provides window selector functionality out of the box as noted here.
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How to use fern open/split commands from drawer.
Basically I want to be able to open files from the Fern drawer browser into new splits. I can see that the commands I want exist here: https://github.com/lambdalisue/fern.vim/wiki/Mappings and look like "open:above" and similar. How do I enter these commands?
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FAVOURITE PLUGINS
lambdalisue/fern.vim
What are some alternatives?
When comparing dein.vim and fern.vim you can also consider the following projects:
nvim-treesitter-context - Show code context
nvim-tree.lua - A file explorer tree for neovim written in lua
minpac - A minimal package manager for Vim 8 (and Neovim)
nerdtree - A tree explorer plugin for vim.
cz-cli - The commitizen command line utility. #BlackLivesMatter
barbar.nvim - The neovim tabline plugin.
minPlug - Minimalistic plugin "manager" for Vim8
ranger.vim - Ranger integration in vim and neovim
shougo-s-github - Shougo's git repository - vim, zsh, screen, etc...
firenvim - Embed Neovim in Chrome, Firefox & others.
vim-fugitive - fugitive.vim: A Git wrapper so awesome, it should be illegal
telescope.nvim - Find, Filter, Preview, Pick. All lua, all the time.