mini.nvim VS nvim-surround

This is essentially a tagline of mini.move.

Just as the others suggested, oil.nvim solves this outta the box. I freaking love it (here my config in case ya need it). Apparently also mini.files handles this by default

You mean backwards seeking text objects? You can get those with mini.ai https://github.com/echasnovski/mini.nvim/blob/main/readmes/mini-ai.md

I would like to offer you to join me in saying late greetings to this autumn with a release of mini.nvim version 0.10.0. It is mostly about introducing three (quite feature full, dare I say) modules and minor updates of existing ones.

Last night I cleaned up all the dead code in my config and realised that mini.nvim has to be the single best plugin that I've used. I have a couple of other favourites but this collection has been so consistently good that I wanted to give some thanks to the juggernaut that is u/echasnovski! Thanks for all the work you plugin authors and core maintainers put in to make this editor what it is <3

For example: I spent a lot of time configuring file tree plugins to have the same sorting as VS Code, tweaking their icons, etc. But then I realized I barely used the file explorer at all, and now I'm super happy with the minimal approach of mini.files. I had similar experiences with other plugins that were just adding "fluff" instead of the functionality I was looking for.

Around two weeks ago I've announced the release of mini.files - a file explorer module of mini.nvim with column view navigation and "edit text to manipulate file system" design. This resulted into a great feedback from the community, much of which turned into new features.

A mini.ai textobject specification that you can use standalone

(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