Q: what's the difference from vim-tmux-navigator?

[laur89]

Hi!

Just discovered this highly recommended plugin, and based on quick glance it looks like there's some overlap with the
vim-tmux-navigator plugin. How do their features compare, and should they even be used together?

Thanks!

[mrjones2014]

smart-splits.nvim is basically a superset of vim-tmux-navigator's functionality.

vim-tmux-navigator just lets you move your cursor between vim splits and tmux splits.

smart-splits.nvim does that also, but also supports additional multiplexers besides tmux, including:

• Wezterm's built-in multiplexer
• Kitty terminal's built-in multiplexer
• Zellij

And it also supports:

• Resizing splits (both nvim and mux)
• Automatically creating a new split if your cursor is at an edge
• Circular wrapping
• Swapping nvim buffers to adjacent nvim windows
• And more

So to answer your question, no they should not be used together, you should decide if you want the extended features provided by smart-splits.nvim and choose one or the other based on that.