toggleterm.nvim VS telescope.nvim

akinsho/toggleterm.nvim: A neovim lua plugin to help easily manage multiple terminal windows.

As a data point, I'd like to chime in here. I have been a 15 year user of tmux (and screen before that) and never thought I'd change my development habits. Over the holidays I decided I would do one of those once-every-five-years upgrades to my vim setup as I had accrued dozens of vendored plugins in normal vim and wanted to see what the big deal with neovim was.

I bit the bullet and evaluated some of the "distributions" (AstroNvim and kickstarter) and played around with all the new lua plugins that I had never thought I needed (why use telescope when FZF-vim worked so well?).

Anyways, after a month of tweaking and absorbing, I found myself running Neovide only, and doing something I never thought I'd see, running tmux from within neovim/neovide. I think this only works (for me) because of session management (there are half a dozen plugins for handling quickly changing 'workspaces') and because the built-in terminal (with a very useful plugin called toggleterm: https://github.com/akinsho/toggleterm.nvim) works so well.

I have not stopped using tmux and layouts, and it sits in another fullscreen iterm2 workspace, but I find that I now spend 90% of my time using a fullscreen neovide and summoning/toggling tmux momentarily for running commands.

Of course, the caveat here is that my preferred mode of operation is being fullscreen as often as possible. I think if your preferred mode of operation is to always see splits then running neovim from the terminal within tmux is still the way to go.

As for why I like neovide? I find the animations, when tweaked to be less 'cool' are extremely useful to see where the cursor jumps to. I am also a huge fan of the fact that I can finally use 'linespace' to put some space between my lines of code -- it is an aesthetic I didn't realize I wanted.

For splitting the terminal you could try either toggleterm or tmux. If you want to send things from one tmux pane to another, then you can use slime. For a toggle-able filetree, you can use nvim tree.

I just found toggleterm which feels awesome. Pretty much exactly what I was looking for to use with Alacritty but even better since its integrated into the rest of my Neovim workflow.

I saw this plugin that tells me how to do it, however I got confused after I added "require("toggleterm").setup({})" in the lazy.lua file and installed the package as well using the Lazy command

I tried toggleterm but I wasn't successful.

And I never really got into Gitsigns or vim-fugitive. Lots of people love them, so I'm sure they're great, but I'm happy opening a floating terminal with Toggleterm and using Lazygit.

I agree with u/Bamseg, but you can get what you want using toggleterm.nvim BUT NOT IN FLOAT.

I use gitsigns for linewise operations (blame, reset, etc), and a floating terminal (toggleterm) for everything else. flatten.nvim also helps with nested nvim instances.

but I ended up finding a good enough workaround by using Lazygit through Toggleterm.

I'm a simple man; I used telescope.nvim for finding files and not for much else. But I'm also a minimalism junkie so I'm always on the lookout for ways to get more value with less dependencies.

Looks simple and clean! Big ups for starts of good screenshots, docs, and quickstart (Docker) instructions.

Regarding the name, "Telescope" is also the name of a Neovim fuzzy finder[0] that dominates the ecosystem there. Other results appear by searching "telescope github".

[0]: https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim

Telescope.nvim is extremely popular for navigating between files in Neovim. But that's not all that it can do! Telescope.nvim comes with dozens of builtins that can be extremely useful. My two favorites are lsp_document_symbols and live_grep.

another solution for fuzzy finding is telescope.nvim https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim

the thing i like the most about it is the amount of plugins you can add (including things like looking at nvim's paste ring).

I personally use Telescope as my fuzzy finder. Again, here's the docs for telescope and here's my config:

For example, telescope.nvim, that is also one of the most popular plugins, has a note in README that describes the way to use with lazy.nvim.

for telescope.nvim (optional) live grep: ripgrep find files: fd

I too share your sentiment about VS Code. Its extension API[0] is extensive and approachable, often with examples[1] for each API.

Just a small anecdote: At work, I found it frustrating not being able to quickly locate where views for Django API endpoints were, so I wrote a simple extension that took the output of django-extensions' show_urls, parsed it, and displayed a quick pick list of all API endpoints, upon which selecting an endpoint would open the file and reveal the exact line in which the view for it was defined.

Implementing this did not take much effort (in fact, TypeScript and JSDoc make everything a lot simpler as it's clear to see what each function in the API does and what arguments they accept), and now this is something I use almost every day and greatly improves my satisfaction when navigating the codebase if not my productivity in general.

I have tried looking into implementing something similar in Neovim and came across the API for telescope.nvim[2], but found it a lot less intuitive to use. I do think Vim/Neovim shines when it comes to text manipulation and extensions built around it, but when it comes to more complex UI that often deals a lot more with graphical elements (e.g. tree views, hover text, notifications), it's hard to beat VS Code.

[0]: https://code.visualstudio.com/api/references/vscode-api

[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-extension-samples

[2]: https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim/blob/master...

This is indeed the main thing I use Spotlight/Alfred for on MacOS: I want to go to the window for this app, regardless of what virtual desktop it's on, and I don't want to hunt for it.

I use that "text-based finder" approach _everywhere_:

- Telescope in NeoVim (https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim)