limelight.vim VS vim-commentary

F10: Toggles Limelight on or off.

In case you can't find anything that does the same there's https://github.com/junegunn/limelight.vim which could be adapted to give the same effect

This feels real similar in concept to limelight and goyo. Nice! 👍🏻

goyo and limelight are also really useful plugins that work well together to create a nice environment for writing.

Two years ago, I did nanowrimo in Vim with a whole suite of plugins:

- https://github.com/preservim/vim-pencil

- https://github.com/junegunn/goyo.vim.git

- https://github.com/junegunn/limelight.vim.git

- https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki

It was fun, and the setup is almost identical to iA Writer which I appreciate. I even had it all on my phone with Termux!

Last year I just did it in Markdown in VSCode in "zen mode" which also worked pretty well. It was definitely easier to setup than Vim and had better highlighting of bold/italics/etc.

I can recommend Goyo and limelight together. Goyo hides lines further away and centers the text, limelight removes syntax highlighting from other paragraphs except the current one. So you have a simple, distraction free workspace

I guess goyo.vim + limelight.vim would help do the same. But at the end of the day, still means reaching for the mouse, dragging some borders around, etc.

If you like Goyo, you might like limelight, which does pretty much what you're looking for.

After having added ( set t_Co=256, as per https://github.com/junegunn/limelight.vim/issues/49 ) to my vimrc and sourcing it works now.

Also, tpope/vim-commentary

https://github.com/tpope/vim-commentary does what you expect!

I've replaced most of my custom maps for commenting with tpope's commentary plugin. It's a great plugin. However, I wasn't happy with the lack of multi-line/block comment abilities so I created some maps to compliment the commentary plugin. Here are some maps that can be used with autocmd, FileType and for JavaScript comments.

commentary.vim + :h gq?

Having said this, there are some useful language independent extensions: jiangmiao/auto-pairs, tpope/vim-commentary, preservim/tagbar, junegunn/vim-peekaboo

vim-commentary comment code comfortably with motions and visual selections alike.

With a plugin like vim-commentary or comment.nvim

" This file contains common and basic plugins too essential not to include " See https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug/wiki/tutorial " Auto install vim-plug (if not already installed) if empty(glob('~/.config/nvim/autoload/plug.vim')) silent !curl -fLo ~/.config/nvim/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs \ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim autocmd VimEnter * PlugInstall endif " Run PlugInstall if there are missing plugins autocmd VimEnter * if len(filter(values(g:plugs), '!isdirectory(v:val.dir)')) \| PlugInstall --sync | source $MYVIMRC \| endif " enable Vim-Plug: call plug#begin('~/.config/nvim/plugged') " Install/update plugins Plug 'https://github.com/tpope/vim-commentary.git' Plug 'https://github.com/morhetz/gruvbox' " Better C/C++ syntax highlighting; Plug 'https://github.com/jackguo380/vim-lsp-cxx-highlight' call plug#end() "---------- Basic configs ---------------------------------------------------- autocmd vimenter * ++nested colorscheme gruvbox " Enable transparent background let g:gruvbox_transparent_bg = 1

Commentary Tim pope's comment plugin