netman.nvim VS general.el

Hello Neovimers :) I posted this on the netman repo as well but I just wanted some opinions from users who use netman.

Lazy self promotion of netman.nvim which is designed to give you browse (and edit/read access) of remote systems without actually needing any configurations on said remote systems :)

I haven't been super active lately but Netman.nvim is my attempt to give neovim a solid remote editing experience. I've been taking a bit of time to myself though but it's still relatively stable for ssh and docker.

If you are really interested in doing this yourself with loop, you should take a look at either plenary.job or netman.shell (I made the latter) as both are very well documented.

If there are any users of Netman already that also use windows (or users of Neovim that want to use Netman but can't because they are on a windows machine), please checkout the windows-compat branch!

Does that not write out to the current pty? That is an issue I have been facing with generic ssh support in netman. I have yet to come up with a decent solution to it :(

A quick bullet point list of features that are included in this point update - Mostly complete Neo-tree integration - Moving files and directories between hosts (including between docker containers and ssh servers) - Auto opening your remote "home" directory in ssh - A complete rewrite of how our "integration" with neovim works - A completely new logging system - A new event system

The password issue is currently something I am looking to address in netman though exploration into the area has proven unfruitful so far :/

Netman supports remote editing of files over ssh.

I can vouch for general.el[1]. It's easy to use and it integrates with use-package clauses, which-key and evil states. You can look at my config[2] for examples.

1. https://github.com/noctuid/general.el

If you need more fine-grained keybindings control use https://github.com/noctuid/general.el

If you're relying heavily on Evil states and leader keys I also recommend this package: https://github.com/noctuid/general.el

If I have to say one or two things about them, general's readme looks a lot and may be hard to grasp for starters who just want to bind keys. I want bind to be the go to package for newcomers and unify people who are just bored of typing define-key or okay with looping since bind is close to that simplicity yet being powerful due to its design. If you are missing something, please open an issue and see if we can add it.

For binding keys I highly recommend the package noctuid/general.el. Specifically binding to general-key-dispatch. Something like: (general-define-key :states '(normal visual) "/" (general-key-dispatch "/" 'ag-search :default 'evil-search-forward))

[1]https://jwiegley.github.io/use-package/keywords/ [2]https://github.com/noctuid/general.el

I use standard Colemak. I've added the following configuration to be able to exit insert mode by pressing l and h in sequence (that key combination is convenient to type, but still uncommon enough in most words, the main exception being localhost). (general-imap "l" (general-key-dispatch 'self-insert-command :timeout 0.25 "h" 'evil-normal-state)) The above code uses https://github.com/noctuid/general.el.

https://github.com/noctuid/general.el Keybinding and leader-key manager for Emacs. There are other packages but this is the best one imo - it even includes vim-style map commands.

Gonna drop a link to https://github.com/noctuid/general.el

(general is a keybinding helper package, not strictly necessary but way simpler than the default)