nvim-surround VS indent-blankline.nvim

(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

Compared to the feature-rich plugins, this simple implementation has many drawbacks, such as not displaying indent guides on empty lines. I think its only advantage might be its extreme simplicity. Yes, I pursue minimalism so I wrote this piece of code. For a better (maybe best) and more comprehensive experience, please check indent-blankline.nvim.

Hi, I am wondering if anyone knows if it's possible to set background highlight opacity. The reason I want to do this is because I have a partially transparent background in my terminal and I would like to set highlights for indent blankline. I have tried using the `blend` option for the highlights but I think it only works for popup menus and windows?

you're better off relying on the plugin author to add per-filetype/buffer options to disable the functionality of the plugin, for example if the plugin in question is indent-blankline.nvim then you can set g:indent_blankline_enabled to false and within that function you mention, you can set b:indent_blankline_enabled to true.

i think it's indent-blankline

https://github.com/lukas-reineke/indent-blankline.nvim complements further.

I think he meant the indent guides? In which case the best plugin is https://github.com/lukas-reineke/indent-blankline.nvim

You are looking for the indent-blankline plugin

I use indent-blankline.nvim for them, which is also supported by my plugin.