vim-matchup VS vim-rooter

Then you have all the vimscript plugins, most of which work in neovim too--my favorite of these is vim-matchup

It seems like https://github.com/andymass/vim-matchup is a superior version of both of them, at least that's how it's advertized.

Have you tried vim-matchup?

andymass/vim-matchup - nicer %

Thank you for you answer! This is the best option I've found by far. But some aditional steps need to be done to enable this behavior. It is documented here vim-matchup

vim-matchup does both of this things

If you don't wanna deal with matchparen, you could also consider using vim-matchup, which has better performance than matchparen and can match way more tokens and keywords.

vim-matchup improves these motions.and has a lot of nice features.

vim-matchup is written in lua, isn't it? https://github.com/andymass/vim-matchup/tree/master/lua

https://github.com/andymass/vim-matchup Plus come custom highlight groups

This or users may have monorepo style projects and vim-rooter to auto-set cwd to specific directories within the project based on certain file markers (e.g. makefile, package.json, ...etc), to accomplish something like :e dir1/file.go | make would run make and then :e dir2/file2.ts | make would run npm.

maybe you are already doing this and you want to access files outside the project directory but if not I use vim-rooter to set the root dir of the project automatically when I open vim

The airblade/vim-rooter plugin is an essential part of my Neovim workflow. It automatically changes current directory (:h current-directory) for every buffer to a more natural one (like to path of its Git repository). For me this has the following benefits:

It depends where you open vim. If you are in home and open a file (even in sub directories) like nvim directory/file.txt, uour vim's current working directory (aka cwd) will be home. A way to make this automatic I think is the built in autocd (or something like that) and plugins like vim-rooter.

An alternative would be using a plugin like vim-rooter : https://github.com/airblade/vim-rooter

I just use rooter and avoid thinking about it...

There's vim-rooter, which is great.

No, it doesn't change current directory. For that, use sessions or airblade/vim-rooter (or wait around couple of months for planned 'mini.root' :) ). And, of course, you can create custom items which will change current directory.