NrrwRgn VS vim-unimpaired

Throwback to a real classic: narrow region

I lean a fair bit in the opposite direction. If a sort is any more complex than -n or -k, I tend to vipe¹ my sort in my editor.

It feels great when you can use narrow-to-region² to perfect a complex address or write a custom function with all your editor's power at your fingertips. With the sad, but obvious, drawback that the changes aren't linked in your disjoint shell and editor history.

¹ https://manpages.debian.org/jessie/moreutils/vipe.1.en.html

² Nowadays, that is more likely https://github.com/chrisbra/NrrwRgn for me.

NrrwRgn ?

chrisbra/NrrwRgn - Opens focussed part "region" of the buffer

On a more general level, Christian Brabandt's re-imagining of emacs' region narrowing can be a great work to work files that contain complex embedded strings.

Much like the emacs feature it is useful outside this specific use case too, and it can be a great way to perform heavy edits without needing to care about boundaries and such.

¹ https://github.com/chrisbra/NrrwRgn

Wow! It's like https://github.com/chrisbra/NrrwRgn with steroids! Good job!

https://github.com/chrisbra/NrrwRgn might work. Narrow the region to that of only the script and change the filetype (:set filetype=typescript) of the narrowed regions buffer (it will open a separate window, with its own buffer) to that of the server you want and then do :Lsp start. Haven't tried it myself as I do not write any html with embedded script.

My use case is somewhat similiar to https://github.com/chrisbra/NrrwRgn and maybe i could tweak it to actually do it, but i feel it's not quite there. I'd like to still se the other regions of the code while editing.

I don't think it moves blocks, but I utilize the venerable vim-unimpaired for basic text movement (and for inserting empty lines from normal mode).

vim-unimpaired gives a mapping for that for ] (and [ to insert an empty lines above the cursor).

I use https://github.com/tpope/vim-unimpaired for this.

Is it possible to install a Vim plugin (like https://github.com/tpope/vim-unimpaired/tree/master)?

HJKL for movement, then mapped arrow keys to this (requires unimpaired): " Normal mode: indent or move line nmap [e nmap ]e nmap << nmap >> " Visual mode: indent or move selection vmap [egv vmap ]egv vmap >gv

Just now I was looking at the manual entry for vim-unimpaired, since I couldn't remember the incantation for swapping two lines. (It's ]e and [e for swap forward and swap backward.)

Switch buffers with :b or the ]b [b bindings from unimpaired.

and a nice toggle remap that I found here to edit Markdown without conceal: vim.keymap.set("n", "tc", ":setlocal =&conceallevel ? 'conceallevel=0' : 'conceallevel=2'", { desc = "[T]oggle [C]onceallevel"} )

imo there are even few plugin authors who actually understand this well, and certainly no distro author does. Some of the few examples of good "vim philosophy" plugins are vim-sneak and vim-unimpaired.

https://github.com/tpope/vim-unimpaired. I still use it a lot and it’s one of the few remaining vimscript plug-ins I have. It is also quite slow to load. It would be fantastic to have a Lua equivalent.