GOgodelski·Jul 27, 2025
> debuggers
Parent mentioned
>> DAP
Here's the docs[0]
> popup context windows for docs
These are called "balloon"s[1]. Plenty of people have setups for things like docs (press "K") or other things (By default "K" assumes a man page)
> contextual buttons on a line of code
I don't know what this means, can you explain?
> minimap
Do you mean something like this?[2] Personally, I use tagbar[3] as I like using ctags and being able to jump around in the project.
The "minimap" is the only one here that isn't native. You can also have the file tree on the left if you want. Most people tend to use NerdTree[4], but like with a lot of plugins, there's builtins that are just as good. Here's the help page for netrw[5], vim's native File Explorer
Btw, this all works in vim. No need for neovim for any of this stuff. Except for the debugger
Read the rest
, this stuff has been here for quite some time. The debugger has been around as a plugin for awhile too. All this stuff has been here since I started using vim, which was over a decade ago (maybe balloons didn't have as good of an interface? Idk, it's been awhile)
[0] https://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/debugger.html
[1] https://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/options.html#'balloon...
[2] https://github.com/wfxr/minimap.vim
[3] https://github.com/preservim/tagbar
[4] https://github.com/preservim/nerdtree
[5] https://vimhelp.org/pi_netrw.txt.html#netrw