mini-starter.md

Fast and flexible start screen

See more details in Features and help file.

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⦿ This is a part of mini.nvim library. Please use this link if you want to mention this module.

⦿ All contributions (issues, pull requests, discussions, etc.) are done inside of 'mini.nvim'.

⦿ See the repository page to learn about common design principles and configuration recipes.

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Demo

demo-starter.mp4

Features

• All available actions are defined inside items. There are pre-configured whole sections in MiniStarter.sections.
• Configure what items are displayed by supplying an array which can be normalized to an array of items. Read about how supplied items are normalized in MiniStarter.refresh().
• Modify the final look by supplying content hooks. There are pre-configured content hook generators in MiniStarter.gen_hook.
• Choosing an item can be done in two ways:
  • Type prefix query to filter item by matching its name (ignoring case). Displayed information is updated after every typed character. For every item its unique prefix is highlighted.
  • Use Down/Up arrows (or <C-n>/<C-p>, or <M-j>/<M-k>) and hit Enter.
• Allow multiple simultaneously open Starter buffers.

Installation

This plugin can be installed as part of 'mini.nvim' library (recommended) or as a standalone Git repository.

There are two branches to install from:

• main (default, recommended) will have latest development version of plugin. All changes since last stable release should be perceived as being in beta testing phase (meaning they already passed alpha-testing and are moderately settled).
• stable will be updated only upon releases with code tested during public beta-testing phase in main branch.

Here are code snippets for some common installation methods (use only one):

With mini.deps

Github repo	Branch	Code snippet
'mini.nvim' library	Main	Follow recommended 'mini.deps' installation
	Stable
Standalone plugin	Main	add('echasnovski/mini.starter')
	Stable	add({ source = 'echasnovski/mini.starter', checkout = 'stable' })

With folke/lazy.nvim

Github repo	Branch	Code snippet
'mini.nvim' library	Main	{ 'echasnovski/mini.nvim', version = false },
	Stable	{ 'echasnovski/mini.nvim', version = '*' },
Standalone plugin	Main	{ 'echasnovski/mini.starter', version = false },
	Stable	{ 'echasnovski/mini.starter', version = '*' },

With junegunn/vim-plug

Github repo	Branch	Code snippet
'mini.nvim' library	Main	Plug 'echasnovski/mini.nvim'
	Stable	Plug 'echasnovski/mini.nvim', { 'branch': 'stable' }
Standalone plugin	Main	Plug 'echasnovski/mini.starter'
	Stable	Plug 'echasnovski/mini.starter', { 'branch': 'stable' }

Important: don't forget to call require('mini.starter').setup() to enable its functionality.

Note: if you are on Windows, there might be problems with too long file paths (like error: unable to create file <some file name>: Filename too long). Try doing one of the following:

• Enable corresponding git global config value: git config --system core.longpaths true. Then try to reinstall.
• Install plugin in other place with shorter path.

Default config

-- No need to copy this inside `setup()`. Will be used automatically.
{
  -- Whether to open starter buffer on VimEnter. Not opened if Neovim was
  -- started with intent to show something else.
  autoopen = true,

  -- Whether to evaluate action of single active item
  evaluate_single = false,

  -- Items to be displayed. Should be an array with the following elements:
  -- - Item: table with <action>, <name>, and <section> keys.
  -- - Function: should return one of these three categories.
  -- - Array: elements of these three types (i.e. item, array, function).
  -- If `nil` (default), default items will be used (see |mini.starter|).
  items = nil,

  -- Header to be displayed before items. Converted to single string via
  -- `tostring` (use `\n` to display several lines). If function, it is
  -- evaluated first. If `nil` (default), polite greeting will be used.
  header = nil,

  -- Footer to be displayed after items. Converted to single string via
  -- `tostring` (use `\n` to display several lines). If function, it is
  -- evaluated first. If `nil` (default), default usage help will be shown.
  footer = nil,

  -- Array  of functions to be applied consecutively to initial content.
  -- Each function should take and return content for 'Starter' buffer (see
  -- |mini.starter| and |MiniStarter.content| for more details).
  content_hooks = nil,

  -- Characters to update query. Each character will have special buffer
  -- mapping overriding your global ones. Be careful to not add `:` as it
  -- allows you to go into command mode.
  query_updaters = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789_-.',

  -- Whether to disable showing non-error feedback
  silent = false,
}

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