nvim-possession VS vim-startify

Yes, you can use the post_hook callback in nvim-possession, for example.

This morning while reading the documentation of an awesome looking session plugin nvim-possession, I realized that I had a hidden frustration.

nvim-possession

I recently wrote nvim-possession: it isn't as feature-complete as most other session plugins, but it does only and exactly what you need (which is its market proposition), and it looks cool ;-)!

All the new commands are described in detail in the README and help file, have a look and try it out! Link to the repository.

P. S. Do you mind if I open a PR to support yet another session manager? :p

There are already some quite good session managers out there, however for my use case they all seemed to add many features I didn't need and to require learning commands, mappings and events that I didn't use. As such, I wanted to create a minimal sessions picker that only exposes listing, creation and deletion of sessions, ideally with some visual candies and browsing to make it appealing. And nvim-possession is just that: it is aimed to the ones who aren't using sessions yet (it's still one of the least used vim features from what I hear) and only want the bare minimum without digging into bigger plugins. Moreover if you already use fzf-lua you can just install this on top (as most others use Telescope only instead).

I'm currently using alpha.nvim (https://github.com/goolord/alpha-nvim). It tries to be more generic than the others, to the point it can recreate most of the other popular ones. It even has template for for example the dashboard layout. startup-nvim (https://github.com/startup-nvim/startup.nvim) seems to do a similar thing, although I dont' have experience with that one. The only other one I've tried before is the classic vim-startify (https://github.com/mhinz/vim-startify), which is a little older I think and locks you into its layout.

Tbh, startify made me more curious about all the vim possibilities. https://github.com/mhinz/vim-startify

Just for posterity since every other session plugin has been posted, vim-startify has autosave and autoload support

I am working on a, from scratch, rebuild of the ever classic vim-startify for neovim with a focus on extreme extensibility. I also want it to be as much of a drop in replacement as possible, and don't want to write myself into a corner with some design choices I'm taking

https://github.com/mhinz/vim-startify has also means to store sessions with command 'SSave'.

might be well known but i like https://github.com/mhinz/vim-startify easy to use start screen with most recently used lists of files, etc.

Startify

mhinz/vim-startify - Start page

I was trying to center the startup screen for vim-startify and went down the rabbit hole of looking for a different startup plugin. My main use is that I want to start my already existing startify sessions as everything else I do with Telescope. I found mini.starter and it is working exactly as I want it to so I thought I would share for others that look for something similar. Don't get put off by the many components of the plugin. They are not loaded if you don't need them. Here is my a screenshot and my config for a minimal, centered, startup:

I am using :e# and ctrl-^ a lot to switch between most recent files (alternate-file), but if I open a file with startify , those commands will error with E23: No alternate file.