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Top 23 Lua vim-plugin Projects
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Project mention: Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-10-13
- Rainbow parenthesis
Too much noise. And the example is great demonstration for it. It's better than gray parenthesis, but a lot of worse than properly structured and indented sections.
- Context Highlighting
Love it. But once again - too much noise for text colors. Just highlight line numbers of nesting level your cursor is in. Indent-blankline[1] plugin for neovim does this (with use of treesitter), but it highlights the virtual indentation lines.
[1] https://github.com/lukas-reineke/indent-blankline.nvim
- Import highlighting
I think it's impractical, because imports are often grouped together at the start of file, but symbols are all over the place and you'd only see highlight on very short files.
LSP "goto definition" is already a better fit here, a bit more immediate solution is to display namespace/import path in status bar. No idea if there's any plugins for this, but should be easy to hack together in an hour.
- Argument Highlighting
Kinda useful, but also gets less useful for longer functions. IMHO doesn't worth it to add whole extra color to a limited palette or it might turn into in-cohesive mess rather quickly.
- Type Highlighting
Could be taken one step further and highlight atomic types in lighter shade and more complex types (not only lists) in darker shade.
nit: example being Python feels a bit out of place here
- Exception Highlighting
LSP virtual text
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headlines.nvim
This plugin adds horizontal highlights for text filetypes, like markdown, orgmode, and neorg.
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code_runner.nvim
Neovim plugin.The best code runner you could have, it is like the one in vscode but with super powers, it manages projects like in intellij but without being slow
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vimade
Vimade let's you dim, fade, tint, animate, and customize colors in your windows and buffers for (Neo)vim
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cmp-under-comparator
nvim-cmp comparator function for completion items that start with one or more underlines
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cosmic-ui
Cosmic-UI is a simple wrapper around specific vim functionality. Built in order to provide a quick and easy way to create a Cosmic UI experience with Neovim!
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treesitter-indent-object.nvim
Context-aware indent textobject powered by Treesitter. `vai` to select current context.
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awesome-nvim-colorschemes
A collection of the best NeoVim colorschemes with a one setupto set the colorscheme & style & even more!
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nvim-ctagtap
Neovim plugin for tap-to-navigate ctags functionality, enabling single-click symbol navigation and smart back-navigation - optimized for touch-based code reading on mobile devices like Android/Termux.
Project mention: Nvim-ctagtap: Neovim plugin for tap-to-navigate ctags, single-click symbol navi | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-09-20
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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New plugin: Display buffer list in statusline. Helps you easily switch buffers. Put the wasted space on statusline to good use.
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Index
What are some of the best open-source vim-plugin projects in Lua? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | indent-blankline.nvim | 4,986 |
| 2 | dashboard-nvim | 2,858 |
| 3 | barbar.nvim | 2,720 |
| 4 | headlines.nvim | 765 |
| 5 | code_runner.nvim | 691 |
| 6 | vimade | 673 |
| 7 | lsp-format.nvim | 597 |
| 8 | cmp-rg | 310 |
| 9 | virt-column.nvim | 308 |
| 10 | ai.vim | 299 |
| 11 | jellybeans.nvim | 230 |
| 12 | cmp-under-comparator | 192 |
| 13 | cosmic-ui | 171 |
| 14 | kanban.nvim | 128 |
| 15 | nvim-libmodal | 125 |
| 16 | treesitter-indent-object.nvim | 74 |
| 17 | ScratchPad | 58 |
| 18 | bionic-reading.nvim | 57 |
| 19 | awesome-nvim-colorschemes | 40 |
| 20 | linny.vim | 23 |
| 21 | nvim-tabmode | 20 |
| 22 | fsplash.nvim | 16 |
| 23 | nvim-ctagtap | 13 |
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