vim-dispatch VS nvim-tree.lua

Tis is good for the compilation to make it async( otherwise it blocks) https://github.com/tpope/vim-dispatch it wraps around the built in make/makeprg feature. Would recommend that you dont do it with large builds/outputs.

vim-dispatch by the legend Tim Pope. send the task to the background, keep using editor. once the task is finished, it output to qflist buffer

The other answer here covers everything you need, but if you want a plugin-based solution you might be interested in vim-dispatch which runs command line tools asynchronously, and offers the option to run the command in the background instead with :Dispatch!.

You should check :h compiler :h make and :h 'errorformat'. You could also check vim dispatch, a plugin that enhances this features

Also plugin supports asynchronous execution (using terminal, jobs or vim-dispatch).

Do note that :make is blocking, and you need to wait until it finishes before it sends you back to the editor. If you want it to be asynchronouns, you can install vim-dispatch + vim-dispatch-neovim for Neovim support in vim-dispatch.

if you want something to work out of the box, is async and is already configured per language, check out TPope's dispatch

For long-running programs, like compiling, or running full test suites, or running terraform on a decently sized infrastructure project, I may run them with :Make (courtesy of tpope/vim-dispatch) so I can keep working on the project while the external program is running. If I'm in an environment without vim plugins, I may spawn a new tmux pane/window. As a last resort, I will ctrl-z/fg if I don't have tmux on the remote system (e.g. dev containers).

This works for installing the other plugins. But I can't seem to access nvim-tree. According to the website (https://github.com/nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua), I should be able enter :NvimTreeOpen in neovim, but I get "Not an editor command: NvimTreeOpen." Any ideas?

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.

(Neovim) nvim-tree

Also you can use your file browser such as neo-tree, nvim-tree, or even netrw.

I have almost finished customize nvim tree to equal bg colors. Can't resolve only when nvtree out of focus. What of paramets i should write? I tryied from this https://github.com/nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua/blob/master/doc/nvim-tree-lua.txt but nothing

I was having an issue with my colorscheme Sonokai and I found my issue

Personally I use will133/vim-dirdiff plugin, but it is pretty troublesome as I need to invoke `:DirDiff /path/to/dir1 /path/to/some/dir2`. What would be ideal is to extend nvim-tree, to be able to mark two directories (in similar manner as it has bookmarks) and then execute `:DirDiff` against those marked directories, but I'm not that familiar with Lua yet to write that. ;/

The open_on_setup feature apparently has been removed in nvim-tree.lua https://github.com/nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua/wiki/Open-At-Startup. Look at this wiki page where you can get all the necessary helpful information there about how to configure open_on_setup.

My tabstop is changing from 4 to 8 everytime that I open a file using nvim-tree https://github.com/nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua