nvim-lightbulb VS vim-rooter

Bonus for nvim-lightbulb: https://imgur.com/a/ZcPw1eJ

Not sure what you mean but if it's about an indicator that there's a code action available in this line you could give kosayoda/nvim-lightbulb a try ...

Bind something (e.g., ca) to lua vim.lsp.buf.code_action(). Otherwise, https://github.com/kosayoda/nvim-lightbulb could be useful as well.

More information at https://github.com/kosayoda/nvim-lightbulb (I don’t think that particular plugin is necessary, but gives away some information).

kosayoda/nvim-lightbulb: it helps me a lot with "discoverability" of available actions. Without a visual cue I end up doing too much trial and error to see if some action can be done.

# add submodule git submodule add https://github.com/kosayoda/nvim-lightbulb # enter the plugin directory and checkout commit cd nvim-lightbulb git checkout cd5267d2d708e908dbd668c7de74e1325eb1e1da cd - # add changes git add nvim-lightbulb

It means there's a code action. You might want to look at https://github.com/kosayoda/nvim-lightbulb/, which shown an icon whenever there are actions for the current cursor position (even if there's no diagnostic).

Maybe you are having codeaction listener setup (like nvim-lightbulb) + language servers for formatting/linting only (like efm, diagnosticls or null-ls)

This or users may have monorepo style projects and vim-rooter to auto-set cwd to specific directories within the project based on certain file markers (e.g. makefile, package.json, ...etc), to accomplish something like :e dir1/file.go | make would run make and then :e dir2/file2.ts | make would run npm.

maybe you are already doing this and you want to access files outside the project directory but if not I use vim-rooter to set the root dir of the project automatically when I open vim

The airblade/vim-rooter plugin is an essential part of my Neovim workflow. It automatically changes current directory (:h current-directory) for every buffer to a more natural one (like to path of its Git repository). For me this has the following benefits:

It depends where you open vim. If you are in home and open a file (even in sub directories) like nvim directory/file.txt, uour vim's current working directory (aka cwd) will be home. A way to make this automatic I think is the built in autocd (or something like that) and plugins like vim-rooter.

An alternative would be using a plugin like vim-rooter : https://github.com/airblade/vim-rooter

I just use rooter and avoid thinking about it...

There's vim-rooter, which is great.

No, it doesn't change current directory. For that, use sessions or airblade/vim-rooter (or wait around couple of months for planned 'mini.root' :) ). And, of course, you can create custom items which will change current directory.