NeoVim

• Vim/Neovim simply cannot understand control backtick — don’t map anything to it!

Misc

• Neovide

Plugins

• Manager
  • lazy.nvim - active development, builtin UI, lazy loading, modern Lua and NeoVim features
  • packer - more established, less active development, lacking modern features
  • Rocks.nvim
• Tabs Navigation
  • Bufferline - more features, pure Lua implementation
  • Barbar - less actively maintained
• Theme
  • Tokyo Night
  • Gruvbox Material
• Status Line
  • lualine - implemented in Lua, fast, extensible
  • Airline
• Smooth Scroll
  • neoscroll, implemented in Lua, allows more customizations
  • vim-smoothie, implemented in Vim Script, limited customizations
  • mini.animate, animations for window as well, supports animations for more scrolling commands such as gg, G, and HLM.
  • cinnamon supports animations for more commands, but it doesn’t support animation in non-file buffers yet.
• Mason, a tool that manages installation of LSP/DAP/Formatters/Linters
  • Mason Tool Installer, the mason-lspconfig can only install LSPs, so we need this extension to install other tools
• Git
  • fugitive
  • LazyGit is a terminal UI for Git, it can be used in combination with floating terminal window tool
    • toggleterm
    • floatterm
    • Or use an integrated solution like lazygit.nvim
• Code runner
  • Molten, the choice
  • vim-slime, feels outdated
  • iron.nvim, not actively maintained

Picker

• Telescope. Traditional choice, not as performant as other options. LazyVim moved from Telescope to fzf-lua.
• The picker that comes with Snacks
• mini.pick
• fzf-lua. The frecency feature is still a work in progress. It launches a terminal buffer, which may or may not be desirable. (Some can argue this ensures a consistent interface between Neovim and fzf in terminal)

Editor

• Auto Pair
  • lexima.nvim, implemented with Vim script.
  • auto-pairs, also implemented in Vim script. 0 mini.pairs
  • ultimate-autopair.nvim, currently in maintenance mode, supports treesitter.
  • nvim-autopairs, with treesitter, author windwp also has nvim-ts-autotag.

File Explorer

• NerdTree, works in Vim, traditional solution.
• nvim-tree, widely used, implemented in Lua
• NeoTree
  • Modern features
  • Can be used with nvim-lsp-file-operations to rename imports automatically
• oil.nvim
• ChadTree
• Dirvish
• “Real” file explorers, such as nnn, ranger, lf, etc.
• Triptych, which also integrates with nvim-lsp-file-operations

Treesitter

• nvim-treesitter, provides syntax based highlighting, folding, refactoring, etc. Without tree-sitter, this is done by regex, which is inaccurate.
• Extra modules and plugins for nvim-treesitter.
• folke/twilight.nvim, dims inactive part of the code, can be used with folke/zen-mode.nvim

Completion

• nvim-cmp, a completion engine.
• blink.cmp, a new, modern, out of the box completion engine.

Markdown

• Preview
  • MeanderingProgrammer/render-markdown.nvim, improved markdown rendering, used in LazyVim, provdies optional LaTeX rendering support by converting formula into corresponding Unicodes.
  • Glow, in Vim Markdown preview.
  • Thiago4532/mdmath.nvim, renders LaTex with Kitty Graphics protocol that actually looks like LaTeX. Doesn’t support Neovide.
  • jbyuki/nabla.nvim, renders LaTeX with ASCii art, based on tree-sitter. Looks good in terminal but not so accurate. Seems like doesn’t support \begin{case}?
  • diagram.nvim, renders diagrams such as Mermaid.
• Language Service
  • preservim/vim-markdown - established solution, depends on godlygeek/tabular, to provide syntax highlighting (but now we have tree-sitter and LSP)
  • Marksman, the LSP for Markdown.
  • mkdnflow.nvim, should be able to replace obsidian.nvim.

AI

• Codeium.nvim
• Copilot.vim, created by GitHub, maintained by Tim Pope.
• Parrot.nvim, supports multiple providers, a new and actively developed project, but mainly with commands.
• Minuet AI, supports multiple providers, completion, and password manager CLI.
• CodeCompanion