vim-fern
🌿 General purpose asynchronous tree viewer written in Pure Vim script (by lambdalisue)
barbar.nvim
The neovim tabline plugin. (by romgrk)
| vim-fern | barbar.nvim | |
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| 23 | 38 | |
| 1,248 | 2,129 | |
| - | - | |
| 6.8 | 7.6 | |
| about 1 month ago | 9 days ago | |
| Vim Script | Lua | |
| MIT License | - |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
vim-fern
Posts with mentions or reviews of vim-fern.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-26.
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Which file explorer do you use?
fern.vim
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Nvim-tree or ??
fern.vim is my current favorite.
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Fern.vim now supports nvim-web-devicons
Fern.vim is a fantastic asynchronous tree viewer plugin written in pure vimpscript developed by [lambalisue][https://github.com/lambdalisue).
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Need a faster and lightweight file tree
I'd be interested in hearing if fern doesn't do what you want.
- what is your startup time?
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Fernvim a high availability high performance and modern config
There is a long established plugin named fern.vim that has nearly 1,000 stars.
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Can I have icons in netrw?
I don't think you can, but it's possible with Fern: https://github.com/lambdalisue/fern.vim
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fern.vim file tree now supports Neovim's winbar
One of the reasons I like fern.vim is that it provides window selector functionality out of the box as noted here.
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How to use fern open/split commands from drawer.
Basically I want to be able to open files from the Fern drawer browser into new splits. I can see that the commands I want exist here: https://github.com/lambdalisue/fern.vim/wiki/Mappings and look like "open:above" and similar. How do I enter these commands?
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FAVOURITE PLUGINS
lambdalisue/fern.vim
barbar.nvim
Posts with mentions or reviews of barbar.nvim.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-30.
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Neovim workflow
considering your vscode background when you say tabs your really mean buffers( Trust me even i had this problem when I made the switch). So your solution here is using a plugin. There are many but I personally use barbar.nvim
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How to change selected line number color so that it stands out more in one dark
you can check out https://github.com/romgrk/barbar.nvim
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Introducing: nvim-early retirement – auto-close your buffers after x minutes of inactivity
Nice! I personally use barbar.nvim's : BufferCloseAllButVisible which closes all buffers that aren't currently visible in a window.
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I'm honestly so close to putting a bounty on a lua vim-wintabs
There has been discussion of adding that feature to upstream barbar.nvim, but no concrete work has begun yet.
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[New plugin] deadcolumn.nvim -- gradually show you colorcolumn as you type
I'm using barbar.nvim, a simple but efficient bufferline plugin.
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Semantic highlighting
LuaLS has trouble identifying vim functions. I just went through and annotated a bunch of functions with doc comments in a project to help it figure things out.
- VSCode like window tabs
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How do you work with buffers?
I use barbar.nvim for displaying buffers as tabs and whenever I feel like I have too many open I run :BufferCloseAllButVisible (from a mapping), and it closes every buffer except those I have currently visible
- Closing brackets are highlighted in red when in the init.vim file
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switch buffers shortcut
i use barbar
What are some alternatives?
When comparing vim-fern and barbar.nvim you can also consider the following projects:
nvim-tree.lua - A file explorer tree for neovim written in lua
bufferline.nvim - A snazzy bufferline for Neovim
nerdtree - A tree explorer plugin for vim.
lightline.vim - A light and configurable statusline/tabline plugin for Vim
ranger.vim - Ranger integration in vim and neovim
taboo.vim - Few utilities for pretty tabs
firenvim - Embed Neovim in Chrome, Firefox & others.
impatient.nvim - Improve startup time for Neovim
telescope.nvim - Find, Filter, Preview, Pick. All lua, all the time.
lualine.nvim - A blazing fast and easy to configure neovim statusline plugin written in pure lua. [Moved to: https://github.com/nvim-lualine/lualine.nvim]
neovim - Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability
Catppuccino.nvim - 🍨 Catppuccin theme for NeoVim [Moved to: https://github.com/catppuccin/nvim]
vim-fern vs nvim-tree.lua
barbar.nvim vs bufferline.nvim
vim-fern vs nerdtree
barbar.nvim vs lightline.vim
vim-fern vs ranger.vim
barbar.nvim vs taboo.vim
vim-fern vs firenvim
barbar.nvim vs impatient.nvim
vim-fern vs telescope.nvim
barbar.nvim vs lualine.nvim
vim-fern vs neovim
barbar.nvim vs Catppuccino.nvim