nerdtree VS telescope.nvim

I personally use nerdtree. Add nerdtree-git-plugin too, that's nice when looking at your project (for files, use vim-gitgutter).

nerdtree is another very popular option

Using my toy js refactoring plugin and NERDTree.

2) Syntax check https://github.com/vim-syntastic/syntastic 3) File navigation https://github.com/preservim/nerdtree 4) Autocomplete There are many autocomplete extensions. I haven't found one that I feel comfortable to recommend. Another way is to create a txt file with all the key words and lines in the languages you use, make an autocommand that adds the txt file to the buffer, and then use ctrl-n or ctrl-p to autocomplete. You can also use ctrl-x-ctrl-l to autocmplete entire lines. 5) Running code Add commands in your .vmrc to run the current file as a a whatever file. I use :J to run java files, :P to run python files, :C to run c files and so on. For example, this is my command to run a java file: command J execute "!java %:t"

Plug 'https://github.com/preservim/nerdtree'

My basic vim workflow is that I open vim, which opens NerdTree for me by default. I can find the file I want in NerdTree, or I can hit Ctrl+p to open a file with fuzzy searching.

What's also useful is to have a tree plugin (such as nvim-tree or nerdtree), so you can just open any file in the workspace (or outside it) if needed. That way, even if you delete a buffer, you can just come back to a file whose buffer you deleted.

Worth noting Nerdtree’s repo is now at https://github.com/preservim/nerdtree and not at https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree

I personally use Telescope as my fuzzy finder. Again, here's the docs for telescope and here's my config:

For example, telescope.nvim, that is also one of the most popular plugins, has a note in README that describes the way to use with lazy.nvim.

for telescope.nvim (optional) live grep: ripgrep find files: fd

I too share your sentiment about VS Code. Its extension API[0] is extensive and approachable, often with examples[1] for each API.

Just a small anecdote: At work, I found it frustrating not being able to quickly locate where views for Django API endpoints were, so I wrote a simple extension that took the output of django-extensions' show_urls, parsed it, and displayed a quick pick list of all API endpoints, upon which selecting an endpoint would open the file and reveal the exact line in which the view for it was defined.

Implementing this did not take much effort (in fact, TypeScript and JSDoc make everything a lot simpler as it's clear to see what each function in the API does and what arguments they accept), and now this is something I use almost every day and greatly improves my satisfaction when navigating the codebase if not my productivity in general.

I have tried looking into implementing something similar in Neovim and came across the API for telescope.nvim[2], but found it a lot less intuitive to use. I do think Vim/Neovim shines when it comes to text manipulation and extensions built around it, but when it comes to more complex UI that often deals a lot more with graphical elements (e.g. tree views, hover text, notifications), it's hard to beat VS Code.

[0]: https://code.visualstudio.com/api/references/vscode-api

[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-extension-samples

[2]: https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim/blob/master...

This is indeed the main thing I use Spotlight/Alfred for on MacOS: I want to go to the window for this app, regardless of what virtual desktop it's on, and I don't want to hunt for it.

I use that "text-based finder" approach _everywhere_:

- Telescope in NeoVim (https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim)

Quick file nav: telescope

nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim: Highly extendable fuzzy finder over lists.

Fzf is good, but as I said above, Neovim offers a lot of new plugins with new implementations. And among them, a supercharged fzf: Telescope! It allows you to search for files, and even text patterns, while offering an interface with file previews! A must have , quite simply.

I don't think many Neovim users could live without Telescope. Maintained by TJ DeVries, this is a fuzzy find, LSP integrator, and so many other things. I use it constantly to find open buffers, grep my codebase, look through Git logs, and pull up references. The image below shows how I'm using it to find Workspace Symbols.