Vim After 15 Years

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  • nvim-dap

    Debug Adapter Protocol client implementation for Neovim

    I don’t use debuggers myself, but I think they’re pretty well supported within vim (neovim at least) these days https://github.com/mfussenegger/nvim-dap

  • vimspector

    vimspector - A multi-language debugging system for Vim

  • InfluxDB

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  • vim-session

    Extended session management for Vim (:mksession on steroids)

    https://github.com/xolox/vim-session

    I actually have in normal mode ,ss for save session and ,so for opening them. Central location of session dirs and that's it. Save session saves everything from files open, positions, tabs, you name it.

  • distant.nvim

    🚧 (Alpha stage software) Edit files, run programs, and work with LSP on a remote machine from the comfort of your local environment 🚧

    Regarding the last part of your comment: you may get some value out of this plugin, https://github.com/chipsenkbeil/distant.nvim, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVAsbpByQ3o.

    I've not used it but your use case made me wonder if there's a nice way to do it, as I regularly SSH into my NAS and RPi's, so I had a quick search.

  • nvim-treesitter-context

    Show code context

    I think you can get most of the first three of your requirements from TreeSitter and LSP.

    The treesitter context plugin (https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter-context) provides the package/class/function info at the top and the LSP gives you features like 'find-references' and 'go-to-definition' you can bind to the keys of your choice.

    I use 'gr' for 'find-references' and 'gd' for 'go-to-definition.

    I don't use a debug shell (I use a tmux pane and a repl usually) but I'm certain there are options.

  • binocular

    Not exactly a telescope, but it's useful sometimes. Extension to search/navigate through files and workspaces.

    I also recently migrated from nvim to VSCode (First with vim plugin, now with vscode-neovim plugin).

    Maybe I'm in the wrong side, but I always tried to replicate the IDE experience on nvim, and it was a frustrating experience because there was also something else missing, at the end I had to manage 30+ Plugins that could break at any time.

    Even though the vim experience inside VSCode is far from perfect (really lacking when we compare with IdeaVim for example), it's a breath of fresh air being able to manage my plugins/lsp/etc with a single click.

    The only thing that I miss daily is something like Telescope/fzf. VSCode fuzzy search works fine for file names inside the open project, but searching for file content/other projects/previous open files is really bad.

    Recently tried to develop something similar on vscode just for fun (Even I don't use it tho, just accepted the limitation): https://github.com/jpcrs/Binocular

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