vim-bufdir VS nvim-unception

Thanks for the feedback! I personally bound a keymap to open a terminal in the buffer under the cursor using another plugin I wrote called vim-bufdir. With this, I toggle back and forth between the command line and the file.

A while back, I came up with a slightly different approach for my workflow to attempt to achieve similar functionality. Basically, I made a small plugin (please excuse the shameless self-plug) that adds a command to temporarily change your working directory to the directory under the cursor before executing the next command, and then I bound :Bufdir Telescope live_grep to a hotkey.

You can also use the built-in terminal and use any terminal file manager you want. nvim-unception or flatten.nvim can be used to prevent nesting.

Flatten was inspired by nvim-unception, which accomplishes the same goal but can be difficult to configure in my opinion.

I’d look at how https://github.com/samjwill/nvim-unception does it.

This is my plugin. The relevant use case is demoed here from 30 seconds onwards. Basically, I block a terminal buffer forever until the git commit message buffer is BufUnloaded, which triggers an autocmd that unblocks the terminal buffer. However, it currently only works by opening the git commit message buffer in a new tab.

Try unception

I wrote nvim-unception and posted about it several months back; some people seemed to like it, even though it was still a bit rough around the edges.

I'm obviously incredibly biased, but since I prefer to use the built-in terminal emulator instead of Tmux for multiplexing and running quick bash commands, the biggest improvement for me personally was implementing a plugin that I wrote to quickly open files from inside the terminal buffer, and a keybind that I made to open a terminal window in the directory of the file that has focus.

U could use a plug plugin like nvim-unception to do what you are trying to do more efficiently.