neovim-session-manager VS dressing.nvim

I use neovim-session-manager, for my needs, works pretty well! :)

I have a question about https://github.com/Shatur/neovim-session-manager How do I make it so the session doesn't autoload, but it still autosaves?

Something that is a bit more advanced, which I'll just throw out there to let you know exists, is sessions. It basically saves all the currently open buffers, tabs, panes, and how they're set up so you can return to them later. You can use them without plugins and open, load, and save them manually, or you can use a session manager (I personally use Neovim-session-manager). That way if you're working on a project for class X, you can save the session, close Neovim or open another session to work on class Y, and you can return to that session whenever you want.

Personally I use neovim-session-manager for this (https://github.com/Shatur/neovim-session-manager) and haven't had any complaints with it so far.

I use AstroNvim which utilizes https://github.com/Shatur/neovim-session-manager to jump between “projects”. You can then save a “project” and find/go to previously saved “projects” and it will cd for you.

Shatur/neovim-session-manager: A simple wrapper around :mksession.

Sharing a lightweight plugin I wrote yesterday which provides some functions for accessing previously used current working directories. I know that this is similar to some other "workspace" / "project" plugins which already exist, so I've pasted the motivation section from the README. >I work in a large monorepo and change my working directory depending on what part of the codebase I'm looking at to give my LSP (gopls) a chance and to improve the usefulness of fuzzy finding files. I want to change the current working directory back to a previously used one without having to configure a "project" or "workspace" beforehand. This requirement is not satisfied (as far as I can tell) by existing similar plugins: > - project.nvim > - telescope-project.nvim > - workspaces.nvim. > - neovim-session-manager > olddirs.nvim is very lightweight and doesn't provide any niceties (out of the box) like some of the above plugins, it's literally just :oldfiles for directories. > \ I say "out of the box" since some features like the searching or browsing of files inside a previous directory can be implemented by adding actions to the olddirs.nvim Telescope picker.

You could take a look at this one: https://github.com/Shatur/neovim-session-manager

Have you tried neovim-session-manager?

You can use a session manager so it would be easy to just quit and reload the last session, at least, this is what I'm doing.

Frequency Sorting for vim.ui.select: Now you can enjoy (f)recency-based sorting for pickers started through vim.ui.select, provided by dressing.nvim or (untested) telescope-ui-select.nvim. For this to work, make sure to load telescope-all-recent.nvim AFTER dressing.nvim.

For 2, I use dressing.nvim with the options below (requires telescope) and that gives me a nice UI for code actions which you can exist out of. lua { input = { enabled = false }, select = { telescope = require("telescope.themes").get_cursor() }, }

cool, thanks, solved my problem, just checked the codebase again with the vim.ui.select, found the plugin stevearc/dressing.nvim

Dressing works, but most of its code deals with vim.ui.select, which seems slightly overkill here.

In general, vim.ui.input does not seem to be super completion friendly, it seems the only method currently available is to use dressing, cmp, and cmp_omnifunc to get some basic completions that are provided by omnifunc: https://github.com/stevearc/dressing.nvim/issues/55

Are you using https://github.com/stevearc/dressing.nvim by chance??? It's awesome to see ui plugins emerging that can be used in other plugins :)

I wrote this little guy which promots you for your query with vim.ui.input, which is really neat if you have a plugin like dressing.nvim installed

it uses vim.ui.select so you can use for example dressing.nvim to use telescope for the UI.

I wanted to share a little utility function, I believe is quite useful. It takes a command as input and shows the output in a scratch buffer. Inputting “scratch” will open an empty scratch buffer, command completions are enabled. It is based on the builtin vim.ui.input prompt, which can be automatically styled by the excellent dressing.nvim. I often use it to open the current colorscheme’s highlight groups in a buffer, with the advantage that colorizer plugins will work then. Or you can check out the latest messages when you got errors in your config, etc. Just don’t try to update your operating system through it…

the little bit of indirection with save_file is required because vim.ui.input might be async (for example if want you're able to use stevearc/dressing.nvim with this snippet without out any modification)