Simple Vim Session Management

Thu, 13 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Recently I switched back to using Neovim after being a VSCode user for a while. One of the things I miss in VSCode is the session management that comes bundled in. My brain became wired to doing things like code <projectDir> to open the editor with all files loaded just like the way I left them. Luckily in Vim, you can use :mksession to create sessions.

The Problem

Just like VSCode, I want Neovim to save the session file under the project root directory. Specifically in .nvim/session.vim. I want Neovim to detect whether the opened file is a directory, and based on that, load the session file if exists. Before exiting Neovim, save the session file under the project root directory.

Nvim on Ayman Bagabas

Simple Vim Session Management

The Problem