persistence.nvim VS neovim-session-manager

persistence.nvim for using session management which is useful

i use persistence.nvim plugin, and i map the commands on my dashboard so i can open my last session

I've been using vim sessions for a while now. Sessions can have their own configuration files and that's what I use for projects. For this to be actually convenient you'll need plugin like persistence.nvim to handle the sessions themselves (or make your own workflow).

I like the idea of a "config" module. Plugins like persistence and mason.nvim have it, they allow you to set variables without calling the main module.

persistence.nvim: Small session manager. I use some of its functions to also manage project local configs. It is because of this plugin I can use language servers the way I want.

persistence.nvim * Automatically save active session to a configurable directory * API to load most recent or current session based on cwd * No direct support for a telescope picker but could probably be setup with vim.ui.select()

yeah, I was planning on shimming this functionality out to another plugin. sessions have little to do with a startup gui imo. i mention in the docs using something like https://github.com/folke/persistence.nvim

I use neovim-session-manager, for my needs, works pretty well! :)

I have a question about https://github.com/Shatur/neovim-session-manager How do I make it so the session doesn't autoload, but it still autosaves?

Something that is a bit more advanced, which I'll just throw out there to let you know exists, is sessions. It basically saves all the currently open buffers, tabs, panes, and how they're set up so you can return to them later. You can use them without plugins and open, load, and save them manually, or you can use a session manager (I personally use Neovim-session-manager). That way if you're working on a project for class X, you can save the session, close Neovim or open another session to work on class Y, and you can return to that session whenever you want.

Personally I use neovim-session-manager for this (https://github.com/Shatur/neovim-session-manager) and haven't had any complaints with it so far.

I use AstroNvim which utilizes https://github.com/Shatur/neovim-session-manager to jump between “projects”. You can then save a “project” and find/go to previously saved “projects” and it will cd for you.

Shatur/neovim-session-manager: A simple wrapper around :mksession.

Sharing a lightweight plugin I wrote yesterday which provides some functions for accessing previously used current working directories. I know that this is similar to some other "workspace" / "project" plugins which already exist, so I've pasted the motivation section from the README. >I work in a large monorepo and change my working directory depending on what part of the codebase I'm looking at to give my LSP (gopls) a chance and to improve the usefulness of fuzzy finding files. I want to change the current working directory back to a previously used one without having to configure a "project" or "workspace" beforehand. This requirement is not satisfied (as far as I can tell) by existing similar plugins: > - project.nvim > - telescope-project.nvim > - workspaces.nvim. > - neovim-session-manager > olddirs.nvim is very lightweight and doesn't provide any niceties (out of the box) like some of the above plugins, it's literally just :oldfiles for directories. > \ I say "out of the box" since some features like the searching or browsing of files inside a previous directory can be implemented by adding actions to the olddirs.nvim Telescope picker.

You could take a look at this one: https://github.com/Shatur/neovim-session-manager

Have you tried neovim-session-manager?

You can use a session manager so it would be easy to just quit and reload the last session, at least, this is what I'm doing.