Alternative window picker

[jakubbortlik]

Thanks for the nice plugin!

This is not a bug report nor a feature request. Just a suggestion for documentation enhancement.

I use an alternative window picker (ten3roberts/window-picker.nvim, rather than s1n7ax/nvim-window-picker). The reason is, ten3roberts' plugin offers some other functionality that I like, apart from just returning the picked window ID. I've tried running the two plugins alongside - s1n7ax/nvim-window-picker for neo-tree and the other one for my general window picking, but there is a clash in the plugin names: both export the window-picker name and I haven't been able to configure them both at the same time with folke/lazy.nvim. Luckily, I've been able to configure window-picker.nvim to serve as the window picker for neo-tree with the following settings in lazy.nvim:

{
  "nvim-neo-tree/neo-tree.nvim",
  branch = "v3.x",
  dependencies = {
    {
      "ten3roberts/window-picker.nvim",
      name = "window-picker",
      config = function()
        local picker = require("window-picker")
        picker.setup()
        picker.pick_window = function()
          return picker.select({ hl = "WindowPicker", prompt = "Pick window: " }, function(winid)
            if not winid then
              return nil
            else
              return winid
            end
          end)
        end
      end,
    },
  }
}

Maybe somebody else would benefit from this, so I thought this snippet could be added to neo-tree's README. And maybe to neo-tree.nvim/doc/neo-tree.txt which only mentions https://github.com/s1n7ax/nvim-window-picker as the possible window picker.

[ngpong]

Great shout! The officially recommended window selector doesn't work well for me due to some keymap conflicts, although the relevant issuse has been created https://github.com/s1n7ax/nvim-window-picker/issues/38 but the upstream fixes for this problem have not been active, which puts me in a very passive position. Thanks for trying, it has led me to find another way to solve my problem.

[nhat-vo]

As the README file already contains a lot of information, I would suggest adding this to the wiki instead. What do you think @cseickel ?

[jakubbortlik]

As the README file already contains a lot of information, I would suggest adding this to the wiki instead. What do you think @cseickel ? Good point, especially since the snippet is more about window-picker.nvim rather than about nvim-neo-tree.

[cseickel]

As the README file already contains a lot of information, I would suggest adding this to the wiki instead. What do you think @cseickel ?

I agree, and I actually think the existing window-picker example should be moved to the wiki as well. We should probably have a page for "Plugins that Work with Neo-tree", which would include the window pickers and https://github.com/antosha417/nvim-lsp-file-operations.