💾 Persistence

Persistence is a simple lua plugin for automated session management.

✨ Features

• automatically saves the active session under ~/.local/state/nvim/sessions on exit
• simple API to restore the current or last session

⚡️ Requirements

• Neovim >= 0.7.2

📦 Installation

Install the plugin with your preferred package manager:

lazy.nvim

-- Lua
{
  "folke/persistence.nvim",
  event = "BufReadPre", -- this will only start session saving when an actual file was opened
  opts = {
    -- add any custom options here
  }
}

⚙️ Configuration

Persistence comes with the following defaults:

{
  dir = vim.fn.stdpath("state") .. "/sessions/", -- directory where session files are saved
  -- minimum number of file buffers that need to be open to save
  -- Set to 0 to always save
  need = 1,
  branch = true, -- use git branch to save session
}

Tip

To configure what should be saved in your session, check :h 'sessionoptions'

🚀 Usage

Persistence works well with plugins like startify or dashboard. It will never restore a session automatically, but you can of course write an autocmd that does exactly that if you want.

-- load the session for the current directory
vim.keymap.set("n", "<leader>qs", function() require("persistence").load() end)

-- select a session to load
vim.keymap.set("n", "<leader>qS", function() require("persistence").select() end)

-- load the last session
vim.keymap.set("n", "<leader>ql", function() require("persistence").load({ last = true }) end)

-- stop Persistence => session won't be saved on exit
vim.keymap.set("n", "<leader>qd", function() require("persistence").stop() end)

📅 Events

• PersistenceLoadPre: before loading a session
• PersistenceLoadPost: after loading a session
• PersistenceSavePre: before saving a session
• PersistenceSavePost: after saving a session