minpac VS tagbar

PS: As you get proficient with Vim, you'll probably want to extend it with plugins, so you should look into package managers when you'll be a decent Vimmer; I use minpac but there are plenty of others. But for now, focus on learning Vim; you don't want to install a plugin to do something that Vim can do out of the box.

It’s been such a long time since I’ve used it. Don’t know how it compares, but minpac is super simple and uses vim’s native package system (the latter can also be used on its own) https://github.com/k-takata/minpac

There are package managers that are built on top of Vim's package system, the one I use is minpac which has a list of other plugin managers using Vim's package system in its README.

Options: - packloadall command family and maybe git submodules - minpac which is a thin utility around the above - vim-plug - old but still popular for it does the job - packer.nvim is a popular choice for lua configs, never got to using it myself - paq-nvim is another often mentioned lua solution - dozens of other solutions

I'm not sure about vim-plug, but I use minpac which does use vim's native plugin location. The selling point is that the installs and updates are managed via the plugin's commands. As part of my dotfiles, the install command is run.

I went back to using minpac. It uses vim's package feature, but doesn't have to compile anything. I like that I don't have to load it unless I download something.

minpac: Plugin manager.

vim.opt.runtimepath:remove(vim.fn.expand('~/.config/nvim')) vim.opt.packpath:remove(vim.fn.expand('~/.local/share/nvim/site')) vim.opt.runtimepath:append(vim.fn.expand('/tmp/nvim-config')) vim.opt.packpath:append(vim.fn.expand('/tmp/nvim-config')) -- Install minpac local install_path = '/tmp/nvim-config/pack/minpac/opt/minpac' local install_plugins = false if vim.fn.empty(vim.fn.glob(install_path)) > 0 then vim.cmd('!git clone https://github.com/k-takata/minpac ' .. install_path) install_plugins = true end function PackInit() vim.cmd('packadd minpac') vim.call('minpac#init', {dir = '/tmp/nvim-config'}) local Plug = vim.fn['minpac#add'] -- Plugin manager Plug('k-takata/minpac', {type = 'opt'}) -- Colorscheme Plug 'mjlbach/onedark.nvim' -- LSP Support Plug 'neovim/nvim-lspconfig' Plug 'williamboman/nvim-lsp-installer' -- Autocompletion Plug 'hrsh7th/nvim-cmp' Plug 'hrsh7th/cmp-buffer' Plug 'hrsh7th/cmp-path' Plug 'saadparwaiz1/cmp_luasnip' Plug 'hrsh7th/cmp-nvim-lsp' Plug 'hrsh7th/cmp-nvim-lua' -- Snippets Plug 'L3MON4D3/LuaSnip' Plug 'rafamadriz/friendly-snippets' -- lsp stuff Plug 'VonHeikemen/lsp-zero.nvim' end pcall(vim.cmd, 'colorscheme onedark') vim.cmd [[ command! PackUpdate lua PackInit(); vim.call('minpac#update') command! PackClean lua PackInit(); vim.call('minpac#clean') command! PackStatus lua PackInit(); vim.call('minpac#status') ]] if install_plugins then vim.cmd('PackUpdate') end local ok, lsp = pcall(require, 'lsp-zero') if ok then lsp.preset('recommended') lsp.setup() end

k-takata/minpac, the plugin manager that stays out my way. It can live as an optional plugin, it's not loaded unless I update or install something.

I like minpac, it's a good plugin manager. It does what I want. Exactly what I want. Problem is it's written in vimscript, which is something I'm trying to avoid right now. I have no good reason to avoid vimscript... I just don't want to write any. By now I have read enough about lua and the neovim api to create a wrapper that would make minpac a little bit more "lua friendly".

Check this plugin: https://github.com/preservim/tagbar

Are you looking for https://vim-taglist.sourceforge.net/ or https://github.com/preservim/tagbar

I ended up finding https://github.com/preservim/tagbar and like it so far

I also recommend you https://github.com/preservim/tagbar with https://ctags.io/ installed , it will map definitions (functions, enum, struct etc..) to tags and tagbar plugin allows you to open a split window with the mapped list and navigate through your file, it also enabled more advanced features for quick navigation .

Also not that useful for text files I think, but I sometimes use something like https://github.com/preservim/tagbar to get an overview of the structure of the file, especially in unfamiliar documents. This is a quite old plugin of this nature that depends on ctags, there are more modern plugins that depend on treesitter. However for C++, I found the treesitter based bar plugins not as helpful, they need language specific settings, and the ones I tried didn't have them for C++ at the time.

Having said this, there are some useful language independent extensions: jiangmiao/auto-pairs, tpope/vim-commentary, preservim/tagbar, junegunn/vim-peekaboo

Hey, I checked out tagbar plugin. It's really cool. It supports most of the languages. But the ones that needs to be configured, are mentioned in their wiki. It mentions vimscript in it. What will be the lua version of following vimscript?

:set number :set autoindent :set tabstop=5 :set shiftwidth=4 :set smarttab :set softtabstop=4 :set mouse=a call plug#begin() Plug 'http://github.com/tpope/vim-surround' " Surrounding ysw) Plug 'https://github.com/preservim/nerdtree' " NerdTree Plug 'https://github.com/tpope/vim-commentary' " For Commenting gcc & gc Plug 'https://github.com/vim-airline/vim-airline' " Status bar Plug 'https://github.com/lifepillar/pgsql.vim' " PSQL Pluging needs :SQLSetType pgsql.vim Plug 'https://github.com/ap/vim-css-color' " CSS Color Preview Plug 'https://github.com/rafi/awesome-vim-colorschemes' " Retro Scheme Plug 'https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim' " Auto Completion Plug 'https://github.com/ryanoasis/vim-devicons' " Developer Icons Plug 'https://github.com/tc50cal/vim-terminal' " Vim Terminal Plug 'https://github.com/preservim/tagbar' " Tagbar for code navigation Plug 'https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors' " CTRL + N for multiple cursors Plug 'https://github.com/rstacruz/vim-closer' " For brackets autocompletion " Auto-completion For Javascript, typescript, html, jsx ...etc Plug 'neoclide/coc.nvim', {'do': 'yarn install --frozen-lockfile'} " this is for auto complete, prettier and tslinting let g:coc_global_extensions = ['coc-tslint-plugin', 'coc-tsserver', 'coc-css', 'coc-html', 'coc-json', 'coc-prettier'] " list of CoC extensions needed Plug 'jiangmiao/auto-pairs' "this will auto close ( [ { " these two plugins will add highlighting and indenting to JSX and TSX files. Plug 'yuezk/vim-js' Plug 'HerringtonDarkholme/yats.vim' Plug 'maxmellon/vim-jsx-pretty' set encoding=UTF-8 call plug#end() nnoremap :NERDTreeFocus nnoremap :NERDTree nnoremap :NERDTreeToggle nnoremap :call CocActionAsync('jumpDefinition') nmap :TagbarToggle :set completeopt-=preview " For No Previews :colorscheme jellybeans let g:NERDTreeDirArrowExpandable="+" let g:NERDTreeDirArrowCollapsible="~" " --- Just Some Notes --- " :PlugClean :PlugInstall :UpdateRemotePlugins " " :CocInstall coc-python " :CocInstall coc-clangd " :CocInstall coc-snippets " :CocCommand snippets.edit... FOR EACH FILE TYPE " air-line let g:airline_powerline_fonts = 1 if !exists('g:airline_symbols') let g:airline_symbols = {} endif " airline symbols let g:airline_left_sep = '' let g:airline_left_alt_sep = '' let g:airline_right_sep = '' let g:airline_right_alt_sep = '' let g:airline_symbols.branch = '' let g:airline_symbols.readonly = '' let g:airline_symbols.linenr = '' inoremap pumvisible() ? coc#_select_confirm() : ""

Plug 'https://github.com/preservim/tagbar' " Tagbar for code navigation

https://github.com/preservim/tagbar (no LSP support)