vim-awesome VS vim-obsession

Vim is infinitely customizable. While Vscode allows you to change the app’s color scheme, install plugins, and change a few app settings, Vim offers you complete control over the editor’s experience. You have thousands of plugins to choose from. You can completely remap any keybinding and create new shortcuts for tasks in your daily workflow. And giving you more power as a developer, you can completely reprogram or automate your Vim experience with the built-in Vimscript language or Lua for Neovim.

This is a pretty good website for browsing vim plugins: https://vimawesome.com

VimAwesome is a website with a curated list of vim plugins. You can search by category or type for something that fits your needs. I highly recommend browsing the list just to see what there is.

I recently moved to Mac/OSX from Linux and have struggled with my vim setup. I found some installations bundles that attempt to set everything up for me, so I used one of those, iirc it is this one: https://vimawesome.com/ . However, I have some issues with it. While coding, I often want to jump around code blocks and I do so by taking advantage of the '{}' characters (curly braces) used for code blocks in the languages I use (javascript and C++). In vi, the '%' character can be used to jump between the matching curly brace. However, in my current setup, this does not work. How can I find how to make the '%' feature work again?

That is probably a couple of hours worth of work getting the plugins set up. Then you're in the wild west looking for things that are interesting. I suggest you stay as minimal as you can as long as you can, but there is plenty to find.

Find the desireable plug-ins from VIM Awesome this is one of the best places to find vim and neovim plugins. For this tutorial we will add couple of plug-ins to make our neovim look good and work like an ide.

Unfortunately not maintained anymore, but it updates automatically so is still somewhat useful.

Are you aware of https://vimawesome.com/ Makes it pretty easy to find plugins.

These are the main characteristics of linefly: * Small size (564 lines of Lua) * Very fast startup (almost as fast as the stock Neovim statusline) * Simple tab support (workspace tabs only, not buffer tabs) * Winbar support (works well in combination with global statusline) * Git branch detection * Git status via Gitsigns * Diagnostic status * vim-obsession and possession.nvim session support * Minimal jank as mode changes or write-status or line number changes; I don't like it when the filename moves one or two characters left or right when there are state changes. Not here. * Direct colorscheme support for these themes: moonfly, nightfly (both my own themes) along with: catppuccin, dracula, edge, embark, everforest, gruvbox,gruvbox-material, kanagawa, nightfox, sonokai and tokyonight. All other themes will use best-guess-fallback colors derived from the theme in effect.

Nice work, I may have to try this out. Currently I rely on vim-obsession and a bash function to open vim with a session file matching the name of the directory I'm in.

https://github.com/tpope/vim-obsession i like this one

Instead of a start screen, I prefer vim-obsession, Telescope, and which-key.nvim.

For your second problem. Personally, I use git worktree to work on different branches. In each work tree you can have a separate Session.vim file. You can create it manually with :mksession or use a plugin https://github.com/tpope/vim-obsession. You may find https://github.com/tpope/vim-projectionist useful too. IMO centralized management from inside Vim is not the way to go, but that's not the only point of view. There is https://github.com/mhinz/vim-startify for example.

I have a hotkey to open a list of remembered buffers, and I navigate and hit enter to open that file. If can use obsession to always save the session, so the list of buffers is remembered between sessions.

A good commenter plugin eg caw, Debugger integration with eg vimspector, Repl code running with eg sniprun, autocompletion plugin like nvim-compe, a snippet plugin eg ultisnips, and tabnine (for compe) which is ai completion, Also read up on Sessions and use some Autosession plugin like https://github.com/tpope/vim-obsession,