project.nvim VS neovim-session-manager

Compare project.nvim vs neovim-session-manager and see what are their differences.

project.nvim

The superior project management solution for neovim. (by ahmedkhalf)
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project.nvim neovim-session-manager
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0.0 5.9
24 days ago 2 months ago
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Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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project.nvim

Posts with mentions or reviews of project.nvim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-05.
  • What is the simple straight answer to create lsp workspace and add files to workspace in neovim ?
    1 project | /r/neovim | 5 Dec 2023
    Here is what I have searched: 1. https://github.com/ahmedkhalf/project.nvim/tree/main : plug manage already exist projects, not create 2. https://neovim.io/doc/user/lsp.html : too complicated 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL8D8EkphUw&ab_channel=JoseanMartinez : basic tutorial 4. https://www.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/ysg4wb/lsp_action_on_multiple_files/ : Mentioned use quickfix, but seems too be a workaround. Not a nice solution.
  • Is there a way of setting a global variable when switching the project?
    2 projects | /r/neovim | 5 Jul 2023
    If someone is interested on this, there is an issue for a feature: https://github.com/ahmedkhalf/project.nvim/issues/73
  • Telescope: how to search project directory?
    3 projects | /r/neovim | 5 Jun 2023
    You can use one of the "rooter" plugins like this one to dynamically change your working directory: https://github.com/ahmedkhalf/project.nvim
  • R code chunks not showing using Nvim-R for R Markdown
    3 projects | /r/neovim | 19 May 2023
    https://github.com/ahmedkhalf/project.nvim I have never used this but it seems to involve defining "projects", and any time you enter a project, whatever settings you require (such as current working directory) will get set up for you.
  • How to manage projects efficiently in neovim using telescope
    5 projects | /r/neovim | 29 Mar 2023
    Not sure if this is what you are looking for, but projects.nvim automatically changes your pwd in nvim. If you then use telescope's find_files and to search in the pwd, you basically get project-scoped searches. https://github.com/ahmedkhalf/project.nvim
  • Smart current working directory
    1 project | /r/neovim | 24 Mar 2023
    This works very well: https://github.com/ahmedkhalf/project.nvim
  • Nvim-tree opens the git root directory instead of the one passed as argument
    1 project | /r/neovim | 8 Mar 2023
    Maybe you have ahmedkhalf/project.nvim setup. In this case, use `manual_mode` as indicated in the readme https://github.com/ahmedkhalf/project.nvim. It worked for me
  • Noob question about projects
    4 projects | /r/neovim | 26 Jan 2023
    Not sure what you mean by that. Perhaps your looking for a fuzzy finder. I use telescope for most of this. It can be used to find any file in your project and there's extensions for pulling up projects
  • olddirs.nvim: oldfiles, but for directories
    4 projects | /r/neovim | 28 Dec 2022
    project.nvim
    5 projects | /r/neovim | 28 Dec 2022
    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.

neovim-session-manager

Posts with mentions or reviews of neovim-session-manager. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-30.
  • Sessions, how do you guys do it?
    1 project | /r/neovim | 19 Sep 2023
    I use neovim-session-manager, for my needs, works pretty well! :)
  • Question about neovim-session-manager
    1 project | /r/neovim | 10 Sep 2023
    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?
  • Noobie Needs a Nudge
    7 projects | /r/neovim | 30 Jun 2023
    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.
  • per project session saving
    5 projects | /r/neovim | 15 May 2023
    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.
  • How to manage projects efficiently in neovim using telescope
    5 projects | /r/neovim | 29 Mar 2023
    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.
  • Hello 👋 First Post here! Any alternatives to VSCode's workspace in Neovim?
    7 projects | /r/neovim | 14 Mar 2023
    Shatur/neovim-session-manager: A simple wrapper around :mksession.
  • olddirs.nvim: oldfiles, but for directories
    5 projects | /r/neovim | 28 Dec 2022
    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.
  • Which, in your opinion, is the best session management plugin?
    11 projects | /r/neovim | 9 Jul 2022
    You could take a look at this one: https://github.com/Shatur/neovim-session-manager
  • Neovim sessions, restore only buffers
    1 project | /r/neovim | 30 May 2022
    Have you tried neovim-session-manager?
  • Restart neovim from neovim
    2 projects | /r/neovim | 4 Mar 2022
    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.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing project.nvim and neovim-session-manager you can also consider the following projects:

vim-rooter - Changes Vim working directory to project root.

auto-session - A small automated session manager for Neovim

telescope-project.nvim

projectile - Project Interaction Library for Emacs

mini.nvim - Library of 35+ independent Lua modules improving overall Neovim (version 0.7 and higher) experience with minimal effort

lsp-zero.nvim - A starting point to setup some lsp related features in neovim.

persistence.nvim - 💾 Simple session management for Neovim

NvChad - An attempt to make neovim cli as functional as an IDE while being very beautiful , blazing fast. [Moved to: https://github.com/NvChad/NvChad]

telescope-frecency.nvim - A telescope.nvim extension that offers intelligent prioritization when selecting files from your editing history.

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