vim-session VS vim-startify

Compare vim-session vs vim-startify and see what are their differences.

vim-session

Extended session management for Vim (:mksession on steroids) (by xolox)

vim-startify

:link: The fancy start screen for Vim. (by mhinz)
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vim-session

Posts with mentions or reviews of vim-session. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-26.
  • Vim After 15 Years
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Oct 2022
    https://github.com/xolox/vim-session

    I actually have in normal mode ,ss for save session and ,so for opening them. Central location of session dirs and that's it. Save session saves everything from files open, positions, tabs, you name it.

  • Which, in your opinion, is the best session management plugin?
    11 projects | /r/neovim | 9 Jul 2022
    I'm looking to switch from vim-session to a Lua based session management plugin (i.e. :mksession wrapper). In awesome-neovim it looks like there are a couple of alternatives. I have relatively simple needs: I want a command for manually creating a new session, and automatic saving of an opened sesion when I quit Neovim. Bonus points for a built-in Telescope session picker, but I can always use (telescope_sessions_picker.nvim) otherwise. Do you guys have any advice?
  • Can you isolate buffers to a specific tab?
    2 projects | /r/vim | 23 Oct 2021
    You can use sessions to switch between different projects. They store your tabs, buffers, etc. Check out :help mksession. I personally use vim-session which is a wrapper around mksession which allows you to use it more lazily.
  • How to handle working with multiple directories?
    3 projects | /r/neovim | 8 Aug 2021
    Check out :help :mksession. There's also a great plugin called vim-session that is a wrapper around :mksession making it easier to use, that adds commands like :SaveSession and :OpenSession that you can tab-complete to choose between all your saved sessions.
  • TIL - what is your most recent vim discovery?
    2 projects | /r/vim | 27 Jan 2021
    I started seriously using sessions a couple of months ago and it's awesome. Although the built in :mksession works I like to use vim-session which is a wrapper for :mksession that adds stuff like auto saving sessions on exit etc which I love.

vim-startify

Posts with mentions or reviews of vim-startify. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-05.
  • Suggest me some startup screen plugins
    5 projects | /r/neovim | 5 May 2023
    I'm currently using alpha.nvim (https://github.com/goolord/alpha-nvim). It tries to be more generic than the others, to the point it can recreate most of the other popular ones. It even has template for for example the dashboard layout. startup-nvim (https://github.com/startup-nvim/startup.nvim) seems to do a similar thing, although I dont' have experience with that one. The only other one I've tried before is the classic vim-startify (https://github.com/mhinz/vim-startify), which is a little older I think and locks you into its layout.
  • is there is a session manager plugin ?
    18 projects | /r/neovim | 17 Mar 2023
    Just for posterity since every other session plugin has been posted, vim-startify has autosave and autoload support
  • Do you use vim-startify, or used to? Send me your configs
    4 projects | /r/neovim | 15 Feb 2023
    I am working on a, from scratch, rebuild of the ever classic vim-startify for neovim with a focus on extreme extensibility. I also want it to be as much of a drop in replacement as possible, and don't want to write myself into a corner with some design choices I'm taking
  • Remember open buffers per project?
    2 projects | /r/neovim | 20 Sep 2022
    https://github.com/mhinz/vim-startify has also means to store sessions with command 'SSave'.
  • What is the coolest, unknown(-ish) plugin that you're using that other people could benefit from?
    33 projects | /r/neovim | 16 Sep 2022
    might be well known but i like https://github.com/mhinz/vim-startify easy to use start screen with most recently used lists of files, etc.
  • what vimL plugins are you still using?
    26 projects | /r/neovim | 1 Jul 2022
    Startify
  • What are your must-have vim/nvim extensions?
    53 projects | /r/vim | 9 May 2022
    mhinz/vim-startify - Start page
  • Finally found a good replacement for Startify (mini.starter)
    2 projects | /r/neovim | 1 May 2022
    I was trying to center the startup screen for vim-startify and went down the rabbit hole of looking for a different startup plugin. My main use is that I want to start my already existing startify sessions as everything else I do with Telescope. I found mini.starter and it is working exactly as I want it to so I thought I would share for others that look for something similar. Don't get put off by the many components of the plugin. They are not loaded if you don't need them. Here is my a screenshot and my config for a minimal, centered, startup:
  • One more nvim config with fennel, I am glad I moved (from vimscript)
    12 projects | /r/nvim | 12 Apr 2022
    I do restart vim when it's impossible to evaluate modified stuff in place to see the result immediatelly. Sometimes, when I have lots of buffers opened, need all of them and need to restart, a save a session with Startify :SSave command. On restart I press one key and have everything back.
  • Favourite files plugin
    5 projects | /r/neovim | 22 Jan 2022
    I use Startify, which does a good job with sessions and gives you the ability to create bookmarks and display them on the start screen. My mappings to create a new window or tab always end with invoking Startify, so it is like the new tab screen that web browsers have, showing bookmarks and recent files.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing vim-session and vim-startify you can also consider the following projects:

alpha-nvim - a lua powered greeter like vim-startify / dashboard-nvim

nvim-web-devicons - lua `fork` of vim-web-devicons for neovim

blamer.nvim - A git blame plugin for neovim inspired by VS Code's GitLens plugin

vim-rooter - Changes Vim working directory to project root.

goyo.vim - :tulip: Distraction-free writing in Vim

vimwiki - Personal Wiki for Vim

vim-nerdtree-tabs - NERDTree and tabs together in Vim, painlessly

telescope-project.nvim

neovim - Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

vista.vim - :cactus: Viewer & Finder for LSP symbols and tags

vim-surround - surround.vim: Delete/change/add parentheses/quotes/XML-tags/much more with ease