nvim-treesitter-textsubjects VS targets.vim

Neovim supports treesitter based selections and "jumps", which I think are awesome

https://www.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/r10llx/the_most_ama...

Or

https://github.com/RRethy/nvim-treesitter-textsubjects

Helix also supports them by default

nvim-treesitter-textsubjects

You could look into treesitter-textobjects and treesitter-textsubjects: they define "smarter" blocks and function boundaries that work relatively well with python and non-parentheses code.

I haven't got treesitter's own incremental selection working, but this plugin has given me basically the functionality I was after https://github.com/RRethy/nvim-treesitter-textsubjects

I personally use it for an outline window for my code (aerial.nvim) and quick-selecting code blocks (nvim-treesitter-textsubjects). I've also seen but not used syntax-tree-surfer for code navigation/manipulation and refactoring.nvim for performing refactoring operations. You could also check out awesome-neovim and ctrl-f for "treesitter", though there are many other plugins out there either not on that list or that don't explicitly mention treesitter in their description.

nvim-treesitter-textsubjects while I basically love everything about Treesitter support, this plugin is just super handy when you start to think more than a second how to select the piece of code you like (in fact nothing when it is nothing too trivial from your muscle-mind)

targets is nice too.

The thing that has the biggest impact on me is ci”, ca”, da”, etc.. so I suggested getting used to using those.. and then you can get more pedantic with it using https://github.com/wellle/targets.vim

I do recommend getting, targets.vim https://github.com/wellle/targets.vim .. which unlocks the n(ext) and l(ast) verbs(?) ..ahhhh it’s REALLY REALLY good, I use 2in” like a lot

In fact, as /u/Chillbrosaurus_Rex points out, there's a plugin, targets.vim, that expands on Vim's built-in text objects, and one of the things it does is to provide this kind of forward and reverse direction functionality.

Hey, I use targets.vim, how does it compare with that?

You might benefit from targets.vim, it works well with your thought process. It adds a bunch of new really useful editing targets (which should be builtin imo).

https://github.com/wellle/targets.vim

Thanks for the through explanation. I has seen that and considered using it in the past. Can I ask how it compares to https://github.com/wellle/targets.vim? Would you consider mini.ai a replacement or complementary?

This is provided by targets.vim, along with a bunch of other useful text objects.