mini-sessions.md

Session management (read, write, delete)

See more details in Features and help file.

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⦿ 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-sessions.mp4

Features

• Works using :mksession ('sessionoptions' is fully respected).
• Implements both global (from configured directory) and local (from current directory) sessions.
• No automated new session creation. Use MiniSessions.write() manually.
• Autoread default session (local if detected, else latest written global) if Neovim was called without intention to show something else.
• Autowrite currently read session before quitting Neovim.
• Configurable severity level of all actions.

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.sessions')
	Stable	add({ source = 'echasnovski/mini.sessions', 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.sessions', version = false },
	Stable	{ 'echasnovski/mini.sessions', 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.sessions'
	Stable	Plug 'echasnovski/mini.sessions', { 'branch': 'stable' }

Important: don't forget to call require('mini.sessions').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 read default session if Neovim opened without file arguments
  autoread = false,

  -- Whether to write currently read session before quitting Neovim
  autowrite = true,

  -- Directory where global sessions are stored (use `''` to disable)
  directory = --<"session" subdir of user data directory from |stdpath()|>,

  -- File for local session (use `''` to disable)
  file = 'Session.vim',

  -- Whether to force possibly harmful actions (meaning depends on function)
  force = { read = false, write = true, delete = false },

  -- Hook functions for actions. Default `nil` means 'do nothing'.
  hooks = {
    -- Before successful action
    pre = { read = nil, write = nil, delete = nil },
    -- After successful action
    post = { read = nil, write = nil, delete = nil },
  },

  -- Whether to print session path after action
  verbose = { read = false, write = true, delete = true },
}

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