Why isn't using sidebars to display information more popular?

• sidebar.nvim

  13 726 3.1 Lua

  A generic and modular lua sidebar for Neovim

  

A file tree doesn't really provide me with any important information and I think that's the case with most people. I looked for a plugin that would help me build my own sidebar and I discovered sidebar.nvim. It isn't the most actively developed plugin out there, but I haven't ran into any issues either. The plugin basically allows users to build a sidebar similar to how lualine builds statuslines.

• alpha-nvim

  30 1,608 6.5 Lua

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

i experimented with generalizing the code for https://github.com/goolord/alpha-nvim for the express purpose of writing sidebars / fuzzy finders etc with the ui builder dsl here https://github.com/goolord/gamma-ui-nvim but I never got around to fleshing it out.

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• gamma-ui-nvim

  2 1 3.2 Lua

  ui builder library

i experimented with generalizing the code for https://github.com/goolord/alpha-nvim for the express purpose of writing sidebars / fuzzy finders etc with the ui builder dsl here https://github.com/goolord/gamma-ui-nvim but I never got around to fleshing it out.

• dots

  3 11 7.2 Lua

  my personal dotfiles (by aaditeynair)

It’s edited from some site. It’s there in my dots. Link

• mini.nvim

  146 3,813 9.6 Lua

  Library of 35+ independent Lua modules improving overall Neovim (version 0.7 and higher) experience with minimal effort

I like sometimes having the file-overview-thing like https://github.com/echasnovski/mini.nvim/blob/main/readmes/mini-map.md

• no-neck-pain.nvim

  15 404 8.2 Lua

  ☕ Dead simple yet super extensible plugin to center the currently focused buffer to the middle of the screen.

Great point, it’s exactly why I added a scratchpad feature to https://github.com/shortcuts/no-neck-pain.nvim to leverage the empty side buffers as scratch pads (https://github.com/shortcuts/no-neck-pain.nvim/wiki/Showcase#side-buffer-as-scratch-pad)

• neovim

  1,384 76,465 10.0 Vim Script

  Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

  

There's a request related to this from a while ago, but there hasn't been any progress: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/12925

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