Neovim Plugins for a Better Coding Experience — Part 4

Neovim plugins to improve our coding experience.

Neovim Plugins for a Better Coding Experience

In this article, let’s continue to explore new Neovim plugins that can improve our coding experience.

This article can be read independently from the previous articles.

• Neovim Tips for a Better Coding Experience — Part 1
• Neovim Tips for a Better Coding Experience — Part 2
• Neovim Plugins for a Better Coding Experience — Part 3
• Neovim Plugins for a Better Coding Experience — Part 5

Command Palette using legendary.nvim

Neovim has a lot of built-in commands, and nobody will be able to remember all the commands. Though the help documentation is comprehensive and helpful, it is a bit tedious to go through if we just want to quickly browse a list of related commands.

This is where the legendary.nvim plugin comes in handy. I mainly use this plugin to search for those commands that I don’t use frequently.

To demonstrate this, let’s install it using packer.nvim.

• We configure the plugin to load when Ctrl-P is pressed, similar to how VS Code works.
• This plugin requires Neovim 0.7 and above as it uses the new vim.keymap.set API.
• This plugin uses vim.ui.select API, and we install dressing.nvim to hook it to telescope.nvimfor fuzzy finding.

In the lua/config/legendary.lua file, add the lines to configure it.

Run the :PackerInstall command to install the plugin.

• We configure it to show built-in commands, and to auto-register key mappings…