nvim-early-retirement vs arena.nvim

nvim-early-retirement

Send buffers into early retirement by automatically closing them after x minutes of inactivity. (by chrisgrieser)

buffer-management neovim-plugin

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arena.nvim

A smart (frecency-based) buffer switcher (by dzfrias)

frecency Neovim neovim-plugin Plugin Vim buffer-management

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nvim-early-retirement		arena.nvim
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6	Mentions	1
162	Stars	46
-	Growth	-
8.3	Activity	7.1
4 months ago	Latest Commit	7 months ago
Lua	Language	Lua
MIT License	License	MIT License

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nvim-early-retirement

Posts with mentions or reviews of nvim-early-retirement. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-18.

Question: What is your preferred keybinding for `:bdelete`?
1 project | /r/neovim | 1 Sep 2023

I use nvim-early-retirement so I don't have to think about when to close the buffers. Works great especially if you don't use a bufferline to begin with
hbac.nvim - automatically close buffers, you don't intend to edit
2 projects | /r/neovim | 18 Apr 2023

The idea came to me first when I saw nvim-early-retirement, and then I created an initial implementation after reading this post by user xmsxms.
Closing unused buffers
5 projects | /r/neovim | 4 Apr 2023

Yeah could possibly cull files based on the lastused value, similar to https://github.com/chrisgrieser/nvim-early-retirement/blob/main/lua/early-retirement.lua
Introducing: nvim-early retirement – auto-close your buffers after x minutes of inactivity
3 projects | /r/neovim | 1 Apr 2023

arena.nvim

Posts with mentions or reviews of arena.nvim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Show HN: Arena.nvim – a frecency-based buffer switcher
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Oct 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing nvim-early-retirement and arena.nvim you can also consider the following projects:

nvim-bufmode - A mode for manipulating buffers in Neovim.

nvim-quick-switcher - Quickly navigate to other files/extensions based on the current file name or jump to nodes in a file via treesitter. Written in Lua.

marks.nvim - A better user experience for viewing and interacting with Vim marks.

hbac.nvim - Heuristic buffer auto-close

termnames.nvim - A simple plugin that adds names to terminals

harpoon

nvim-ultivisual - A neovim plugin for visual mode written by Lua.

packer.nvim - A use-package inspired plugin manager for Neovim. Uses native packages, supports Luarocks dependencies, written in Lua, allows for expressive config

dir-telescope.nvim - Perform telescope functions in a selected directory

barbar.nvim - The neovim tabline plugin.

carbon-now.nvim - Create beautiful code snippets directly from your neovim terminal