molten-nvim VS rnvimr

Quarto is a higher level tool that uses latex/pandoc under the hood. It can run Jupyter style code blocks and include results, and exports to Beamer, RevealJS, and Power Point for presentations. It has very good neovim integration through quarto-nvim, molten.nvim, image.nvim, and otter.nvim.

I've been trying to get molten-nvim to work. Molten is a remote plugin written in python and it has a couple python deps (which are all installed and recognized). Running :UpdateRemotePlugins works in neovim just fine, and it seems like the plugin is able to initialize itself as expected too. But, when the plugin tries to run some code on a timer like: self.timer = self.nvim.eval("timer_start(500, 'MoltenTick', {'repeat': -1})"), it causes lag. Commenting that line out removes the issue but also means that the plugin doesn't work.

You can ranger inside of Neovim with this plugin rnvimr. Check it out. Neo-tree is another plugin that I like as a file manager. And also mini.files is another option if you prefer a more minimal approach and the ability to manipulate files like you edit a normal Neovim buffer. I'm pretty sure there are other great options out there as well, these are just my personal preferences.

https://github.com/kevinhwang91/rnvimr is pretty good, it opens ranger in a floating terminal and takes care of file renaming and deletion, etc.

Ranger inside Neovim for when I need it

This plugin is unique from the other alternatives such as ranger.vim and rnvimr in that my plugin has no dependencies besides ‘ranger’ and written in 100% lua.

chadtree for dealing with files in the current project & Rnvimr (which basically integrates Ranger) when I want to work with files all over the disk.

Although Ranger is a terminal application, you can use it in neovim via some plugins like rnvimr.

If you don't mind switch to another plugin I highly recommend rnvimr to use ranger, a real-world, feature-complete file amanger perfecrly integrated in nvim.