vim-signature VS tagbar

There are plugins that show the marks in the sign column, like this one https://github.com/kshenoy/vim-signature.

the addon vim-signature will display the marks visually on the left side of the line

i couldn't find lua version of vim-signature. does it exist?

In addition to this, I also installed a plugin recently that shows the active marks on the line just before the line numbering. It is actually the most recent plugin I installed: https://github.com/kshenoy/vim-signature

I use vim-signature. Everytime I hit ma, it places an a on the left column. That instant visual feedback is helpful for me.

It's a plugin... But vim-signature ( https://github.com/kshenoy/vim-signature ) might be a good choice.

I use https://github.com/kshenoy/vim-signature

I think you mean vim-signature.

For example, placing the mark 'a' on lines 15,40,120,200 and then cycle through them as you keep calling on that mark 'a'. I've realized the main problem with how vim's native marks work is they are easily forgettable and delicate as you can easily override a previously set mark. I recently started using the plugin vim-signature and the ability to set symbol-markers in different locations and cycle through them is personally a game changer. I want to see if it's possible to do the same with letter keys, so calling on the mark 'q' will cycle through all the areas marked with it, rather than overriding and creating a new mark.

Check this plugin: https://github.com/preservim/tagbar

Are you looking for https://vim-taglist.sourceforge.net/ or https://github.com/preservim/tagbar

I ended up finding https://github.com/preservim/tagbar and like it so far

I also recommend you https://github.com/preservim/tagbar with https://ctags.io/ installed , it will map definitions (functions, enum, struct etc..) to tags and tagbar plugin allows you to open a split window with the mapped list and navigate through your file, it also enabled more advanced features for quick navigation .

Also not that useful for text files I think, but I sometimes use something like https://github.com/preservim/tagbar to get an overview of the structure of the file, especially in unfamiliar documents. This is a quite old plugin of this nature that depends on ctags, there are more modern plugins that depend on treesitter. However for C++, I found the treesitter based bar plugins not as helpful, they need language specific settings, and the ones I tried didn't have them for C++ at the time.

Having said this, there are some useful language independent extensions: jiangmiao/auto-pairs, tpope/vim-commentary, preservim/tagbar, junegunn/vim-peekaboo

Hey, I checked out tagbar plugin. It's really cool. It supports most of the languages. But the ones that needs to be configured, are mentioned in their wiki. It mentions vimscript in it. What will be the lua version of following vimscript?

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Plug 'https://github.com/preservim/tagbar' " Tagbar for code navigation

https://github.com/preservim/tagbar (no LSP support)