vim-smoothie VS toggleterm.nvim

dirbuf.nvim (or oil.nvim), the genius thing is that it is really just one mapping, plus stuff you already know. Foke's todo-comments.nvim is another typical one, but you're probably aware of that if using Noice. Smooth scrolling plugins? My favourite for some reason is still vim-smoothie, not the Lua alternatives.

My goal is to try to make something like vim-smoothie in emacs. I want to make this scroll line by line, instead of by pixel with pixel-scroll-mode because that just makes it laggy, and not smooth at all.

I can reccomend practicing using D and U to move around to see if you get more used to it, but there's also the vim-smoothie plugin which might make the scrolling easier to follow. Some other usefull ways of moving around are using { and } to move by paragraph (i.e. to next blank line), [[, [], ][ and ]] which move to the start or end of c-style functions. You might also want to try out a fuzzy finder such as vim-fzf or nvim-telescope where you can use :Rg or :Telescope live-grep respectively where you can start typing part of a line and see a list of the lines that fit alongside a preview window

I installed a plug-in that animates my scrolling. I’m not sure if it’s https://github.com/psliwka/vim-smoothie or something comparable (on phone so I can’t check right now). It also shows what’s going on in a more visual way. It’s hypothetically slower since it wastes frames, but I’m used to it now.

> And smooth scrolling works on regular neovim with https://github.com/psliwka/vim-smoothie

Doesn't 'smooth scrolling' mean scrolling in increments less than a full line, to avoid the janky jarring jump from one line to the next?

I don't get how you can do smooth scrolling in a terminal interface? The screenshots in that link aren't smooth - they jump whole lines at a time.

That is where this type of plugin can help with that: https://github.com/psliwka/vim-smoothie

Very sexy for reading stuff (like help)

Wanna add some coconut oil to your c-u/c-d? use psliwka/vim-smoothie for some smooooooth ups and downs. Really helps you keep focus and reduce the need to reorient after the jump.

As a data point, I'd like to chime in here. I have been a 15 year user of tmux (and screen before that) and never thought I'd change my development habits. Over the holidays I decided I would do one of those once-every-five-years upgrades to my vim setup as I had accrued dozens of vendored plugins in normal vim and wanted to see what the big deal with neovim was.

I bit the bullet and evaluated some of the "distributions" (AstroNvim and kickstarter) and played around with all the new lua plugins that I had never thought I needed (why use telescope when FZF-vim worked so well?).

Anyways, after a month of tweaking and absorbing, I found myself running Neovide only, and doing something I never thought I'd see, running tmux from within neovim/neovide. I think this only works (for me) because of session management (there are half a dozen plugins for handling quickly changing 'workspaces') and because the built-in terminal (with a very useful plugin called toggleterm: https://github.com/akinsho/toggleterm.nvim) works so well.

I have not stopped using tmux and layouts, and it sits in another fullscreen iterm2 workspace, but I find that I now spend 90% of my time using a fullscreen neovide and summoning/toggling tmux momentarily for running commands.

Of course, the caveat here is that my preferred mode of operation is being fullscreen as often as possible. I think if your preferred mode of operation is to always see splits then running neovim from the terminal within tmux is still the way to go.

As for why I like neovide? I find the animations, when tweaked to be less 'cool' are extremely useful to see where the cursor jumps to. I am also a huge fan of the fact that I can finally use 'linespace' to put some space between my lines of code -- it is an aesthetic I didn't realize I wanted.

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.

I just found toggleterm which feels awesome. Pretty much exactly what I was looking for to use with Alacritty but even better since its integrated into the rest of my Neovim workflow.

I saw this plugin that tells me how to do it, however I got confused after I added "require("toggleterm").setup({})" in the lazy.lua file and installed the package as well using the Lazy command

I tried toggleterm but I wasn't successful.

And I never really got into Gitsigns or vim-fugitive. Lots of people love them, so I'm sure they're great, but I'm happy opening a floating terminal with Toggleterm and using Lazygit.

I agree with u/Bamseg, but you can get what you want using toggleterm.nvim BUT NOT IN FLOAT.

I use gitsigns for linewise operations (blame, reset, etc), and a floating terminal (toggleterm) for everything else. flatten.nvim also helps with nested nvim instances.

but I ended up finding a good enough workaround by using Lazygit through Toggleterm.

Perhaps you want something like https://github.com/akinsho/toggleterm.nvim and make a custom profile? Remapping a key for each extension seems fine as well, just remap it per-buffer inside of on_attach