vim-startify VS vim-commentary

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

vim-startify

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

vim-commentary

commentary.vim: comment stuff out (by tpope)
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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.

vim-commentary

Posts with mentions or reviews of vim-commentary. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-01.
  • html css commenting things out
    2 projects | /r/vim | 1 Jun 2023
  • Plugin for comments
    2 projects | /r/neovim | 12 Mar 2023
    https://github.com/tpope/vim-commentary does what you expect!
  • My Solution to Block Comments
    2 projects | /r/vim | 11 Mar 2023
    I've replaced most of my custom maps for commenting with tpope's commentary plugin. It's a great plugin. However, I wasn't happy with the lack of multi-line/block comment abilities so I created some maps to compliment the commentary plugin. Here are some maps that can be used with autocmd, FileType and for JavaScript comments.
  • Vim plugin for wrapping/unwrapping line comments
    2 projects | /r/vim | 2 Mar 2023
    commentary.vim + :h gq?
  • Favorite vimrc configs for coding?
    8 projects | /r/vim | 20 Feb 2023
    Having said this, there are some useful language independent extensions: jiangmiao/auto-pairs, tpope/vim-commentary, preservim/tagbar, junegunn/vim-peekaboo
  • Neovim config from scratch (Part II)
    10 projects | dev.to | 11 Jan 2023
    vim-commentary comment code comfortably with motions and visual selections alike.
  • Anybody have a keymap/config for folding and unfolding a block of code? Also how to comment lines of selected code?
    2 projects | /r/neovim | 9 Jan 2023
    With a plugin like vim-commentary or comment.nvim
  • Colored statusline doesn't load at start; I need to manually source $MYVIMRC
    4 projects | /r/vim | 2 Jan 2023
    " This file contains common and basic plugins too essential not to include " See https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug/wiki/tutorial " Auto install vim-plug (if not already installed) if empty(glob('~/.config/nvim/autoload/plug.vim')) silent !curl -fLo ~/.config/nvim/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs \ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim autocmd VimEnter * PlugInstall endif " Run PlugInstall if there are missing plugins autocmd VimEnter * if len(filter(values(g:plugs), '!isdirectory(v:val.dir)')) \| PlugInstall --sync | source $MYVIMRC \| endif " enable Vim-Plug: call plug#begin('~/.config/nvim/plugged') " Install/update plugins Plug 'https://github.com/tpope/vim-commentary.git' Plug 'https://github.com/morhetz/gruvbox' " Better C/C++ syntax highlighting; Plug 'https://github.com/jackguo380/vim-lsp-cxx-highlight' call plug#end() "---------- Basic configs ---------------------------------------------------- autocmd vimenter * ++nested colorscheme gruvbox " Enable transparent background let g:gruvbox_transparent_bg = 1
  • Neovim config from scratch (Part I)
    9 projects | dev.to | 30 Dec 2022
    Commentary Tim pope's comment plugin
  • Commenting both erb and handlebars files
    3 projects | /r/neovim | 26 Dec 2022
    Unfortunately, https://github.com/tpope/vim-commentary fails on handlebars and https://github.com/numToStr/Comment.nvim fails on both (or I couldn't figure out 😅).

What are some alternatives?

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

nerdcommenter - Vim plugin for intensely nerdy commenting powers

nvim-comment - A comment toggler for Neovim, written in Lua

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

tcomment_vim - An extensible & universal comment vim-plugin that also handles embedded filetypes

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

kommentary - Neovim commenting plugin, written in lua.

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

coc.nvim - Nodejs extension host for vim & neovim, load extensions like VSCode and host language servers.

vim-lsp - async language server protocol plugin for vim and neovim

vimwiki - Personal Wiki for Vim