nvim-dap-ui

A UI for nvim-dap

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A UI for nvim-dap

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lenkite·Jul 21, 2025

You can do debugging in a console-based text editor nowadays. Neovim has a DAP client for example. https://github.com/mfussenegger/nvim-dap. Works reasonably well for quick debugging even if you don't get all the bells and whistles of a sophisticated IDE. Though folks have made IDE-like debugging UI's too: https://github.com/rcarriga/nvim-dap-ui

In C# Language Design Meeting for June 30th, 2025

jcgl·Jun 19, 2025

I don’t disagree that a visual debugger made with a proper GUI toolkit is better than a TUI. However, nvim-dap-ui[0] does a pretty good job. [0] https://github.com/rcarriga/nvim-dap-ui

In The Grug Brained Developer (2022)

konart·Jul 17, 2023

>and still not satisfied with the results One can never be satisfied with the results. "There is no endgame", right? 1-2 hours is more than enough to get to work with autocompletion, syntax, filesystem explorer and a few more plugins for your convenience. >coming from another IDE and trying to replicate something This. Some people try to replicate IDEA or something like that. Obviously you can spend weeks trying to do this Hell, configuring https://github.com/mfussenegger/nvim-dap + https://github.com/rcarriga/nvim-dap-ui can take a week alone I guess.

In LazyVim

9029·Apr 11, 2023

I'm surprised nvim-dap-ui wasn't mentioned yet. It still has less features than vimspector, but personally I prefer the nvim-dap ecosystem. No memory viewer is a bummer though. https://github.com/rcarriga/nvim-dap-ui

In Rust, RR, Neovim: A perfect debug combination

israrkhan·Mar 21, 2022

if you are using neovim, nvim-dap has support for debug adapters, which includes gdb in addition to several other languages (python, nodejs, java etc). Here [1] are available debug adapters. It is noteable that nvim-dap just provides support for debug adapters, if you are looking for nice UI, there are other plugins such as nvim-dap-ui [2]. In vim land, there is vimspector. I have not used vimspector myself, but from what I hear, it is slower than nvim-dap. [1] https://microsoft.github.io/debug-adapter-protocol/implement... [2] https://github.com/rcarriga/nvim-dap-ui

In Debugging with GDB