Project Management with Startify

Plug in Startify

Plug 'mhinz/vim-startify'

Create a config file

touch ~/.config/nvim/plug-config/start-screen.vim

Sessions

This plugin will let us manage our sessions very easily

:SLoad load a session :SSave[!] save a session :SDelete[!] delete a session :SClose close a session

Add ! to skip the prompt

We should specify where we want Startify to keep our sessions

let g:startify_session_dir = '~/.config/nvim/session'

Startify Lists

We can specify what shows up in our menu like this:

let g:startify_lists = [ \ { 'type': 'files', 'header': [' Files'] }, \ { 'type': 'dir', 'header': [' Current Directory '. getcwd()] }, \ { 'type': 'sessions', 'header': [' Sessions'] }, \ { 'type': 'bookmarks', 'header': [' Bookmarks'] }, \ ]

Bookmarks

let g:startify_bookmarks = [ \ { 'c': '~/.config/i3/config' }, \ { 'i': '~/.config/nvim/init.vim' }, \ { 'z': '~/.zshrc' }, \ '~/Blog', \ '~/Code', \ '~/Pics', \ ]

Configuration options

You can automatically restart a session like this

let g:startify_session_autoload = 1

From the docs:

"If this option is enabled and you start Vim in a directory that contains a Session.vim, that session will be loaded automatically. Otherwise it will be shown as the top entry in the Startify buffer."

Let Startify take care of buffers

let g:startify_session_delete_buffers = 1

Similar to Vim-rooter

let g:startify_change_to_vcs_root = 1

If you want Unicode

let g:startify_fortune_use_unicode = 1

Automatically Update Sessions

let g:startify_session_persistence = 1

Get rid of empy buffer and quit

let g:startify_enable_special = 0

Add a custom header

let g:startify_custom_header = [ \ ' _ __ _ __ ___ __ ___ ', \ ' / |/ / __(_)_ _ / |/ /__ _____/ / |_ |', \ ' / / |/ / / ` \ / /|_/ / _ `/ __/ _ \ / __/ ', \ '/_/|_/|___/_/_/_/_/ /_/ /_/\_,_/\__/_//_/ /____/ ', \]