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

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