nvim-luapad VS iron.nvim

there is this plugin: https://github.com/rafcamlet/nvim-luapad

Ah yes, finally a question I can answer. There is no easy way to do this. This was the first big problem when I started working on: luapad, and I dealt with it, by creating a temporary files, attaching lsp to them, and removed them right away from the file system. But later on it started to cause some problems (can't remember what they were now) so ultimately the temp files are not deleting until neovim is restarted.

I was wondering how the hell you did it. There are no autocmds for window resizing. I was trying to figure this out for preview win for nvim-luapad and I gave up. But this timer idea... aren't there any performances issues?

This is a work in progress, but for 'mini.indentscope' I currently settled on using 'plenary.nvim' with helper for creating full child Neovim processes and testing directly extmarks (source; original idea is from rafcamlet/nvim-luapad). Eventually I plan to convert these helpers and 'plenary.test_harness' into something like 'mini.testing' (but only after yet another ready but being alpha-tested jumping module 'mini.jump2d' :) ). Hope that'll help now.

Hi! I think I have exactly what you are looking for. Check the spec directory in the luapad dev branch https://github.com/rafcamlet/nvim-luapad/tree/dev/specs. I am using RPC to send instructions to another nvim instance and then check the results, restarting it between each test for clear env. It may be a bit messy, but I'm currently working on extracting this logic to a separated plugin.

Here's the other lua/neovim dev plugin I was thinking of that might help testing smaller portions of your code https://github.com/rafcamlet/nvim-luapad

Dude, I like your plugin, but please: do a gif or a video about what this plugin does (nvim-luapad do this and I know exactly what this plugin does)

hard to tell, could be iron maybe? https://github.com/Vigemus/iron.nvim

The plugin in question is iron.nvim - but my question is certainly also applicable to other uses. How do I figure this out?

Hey all, I've been thinking a lot about it and I believe I'm not being fair to the (relatively big) community that formed around iron.nvim and I think it needs a more active maintainer. I'd love to have the time and energy to put the effort into zero-ing the issues and delivering more features, keeping up with neovim development, but unfortunately it is not possible.

For the record/list, there's also: - https://github.com/hkupty/iron.nvim and - https://github.com/jpalardy/vim-slime

For Codi, I migrated away to iron.nvim. Codi is really slick though :)

In the past, when I was using NeoVim more, I also used iron.nvim: https://github.com/hkupty/iron.nvim