dotfiles VS nvim-surround

I don't get the hang up. I like tinkering on my config. Check out the ftplugins I have from original vim :) https://github.com/AriSweedler/dotfiles/tree/main/.vim/after/ftplugin - sure, most of them are just tab settings, but a few are pretty useful, like the sh one or the C++ one. The languages I actually use the most.

Also, I have a plugin that lets s( surround the text with parens. I wrote it myself: link. Although there are many mature alternatives out there. Anyway. Without that plugin there's no easy way. You gotta A) then I(, which is 2 commands. Not 1.

But yes, it inserts spaces before. If you type in the middle of a tab it converts it to spaces. Check out this https://github.com/AriSweedler/dotfiles/blob/main/.vim/plugin/whitespace.vim you can source it as a plugin and use it to inspect whitespace. Specifically the Leader-W mapping.

I wanna edit my ftplugin for cpp? Easy. You can see my directory structure with this link: https://github.com/AriSweedler/dotfiles/tree/main/.vim

(Neo)vim supports plugins, which make your code editor much better. You need a faster way to comment stuff? Sure, here is nvim-comment. Now you need a better tool to surround text by certain characters? Alright, we also have nvim-surround. And this goes on for almost everything you ever needed. And in the rare case that you can't find a plugin for what you need: Write it yourself! It's very easy to write plugins, as vim and neovim both have a lot of functions that help with writing those.

So, I've been using floaterm and I like it a lot so far! But my ideal workflow would look like this

My guess would be to save the current location of the cursor, then iterate through all possible motions you want, i.e. a[, at, etc. After each time your operator marks get updated and you can save those locations, before resetting the cursor position to the original spot. Finally, take the innermost/closest pair of marks to be your selection. That would be my guess at least, I think your question is similar to how aliases are implemented in nvim-surround.

Thanks! I was using nvim-surround, but I didn't check dit

Oh sorry I forgot to add additional context. I already have keymaps that starts with m but not dealing visual mode. For example, I'm using ms, mr, md for nvim-surround. That is why I'm trying to map mi and ma, not just m for entering visual mode.

I'm trying out https://github.com/kylechui/nvim-surround (maybe a Lua port of that same plugin) and it it seems very capable. With some remapped shortcuts I think I can bend it to my will. Thanks!

The other plugin that can do this is kylechui/nvim-surround. Not sure how to set it up, though.

You could probably use a surround plugin like nvim-surround and then have an ftplugin that uses the buffer_setup function to create a custom surround.

require("ns-textobject").setup({}) -- from https://github.com/kylechui/nvim-surround/discussions/53#discussioncomment-3134891 require("nvim-surround").buffer_setup({ surrounds = { ["l"] = { add = function() local clipboard = vim.fn.getreg("+"):gsub("\n", "") return { { "[" }, { "](" .. clipboard .. ")" }, } end, find = "%b[]%b()", delete = "^(%[)().-(%]%b())()$", change = { target = "^()()%b[]%((.-)()%)$", replacement = function() local clipboard = vim.fn.getreg("+"):gsub("\n", "") return { { "" }, { clipboard }, } end, }, }, },

this might actually be a better surround plugin for surround https://github.com/kylechui/nvim-surround