traces.vim VS nvim-hlslens

For those who wish to preview substitutions as they type à la Neovim inccommand, there's markonm/traces.vim.

Neovim has this built in with set inccommand=split, which is inspired by traces.vim, I believe.

There's also markonm/traces.vim: Range, pattern and substitute preview for Vim

Do you know traces.vim?

There is also https://github.com/markonm/traces.vim that shows the changes made by :substitute interactively.

Perhaps you mean traces.vim? I find it extends live feedback on substitutions and whatnot quite well. Useful for a lot of typical cases where you would expect native Vim/Neovim to provide live feedback but doesn’t. Also, I find the “Feature comparison” table for traces to be modest: it is even better / native is lacking.

May want to use 'incsearch' & 'hlsearch' to help show patterns as you build them with /. Neovim will show substitution previews ('inccommand') and traces.vim will work with Vim.

The traces.vim plugin can help show substitution previews. Neovim may want to look at :h 'inccommand'

Search: nvim-hlslens

I've configured nvim-hlslens as https://github.com/kevinhwang91/nvim-hlslens shown, using Minimal configuration, but I could not achieve what the other has shown in https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/17562139/144654751-0d439610-b913-4e72-b473-e49db3317fab.mp4

That's part of noice.nvim, but you could also use something like https://github.com/kevinhwang91/nvim-hlslens to get a similar effect

kevinhwang91/nvim-hlslens might help with this specific problem

The plugin I found for this function is cmd2.vim: https://github.com/gelguy/Cmd2.vim, but this is from 2015, doesn't really support nvim, and conflicts with nvim-hlslens which I use.

I do use nvim-hlslens to count search result occurence. What's hindering me to use your function right now is hlslens' integration with nvim-scrollbar

nvim-hlslens: shows indexed search using virtual text, better ux than vim-anzu and other similar plugins.

I just recently discovered kevinhwang91/nvim-hlslens, and gave it a go. After a bit I encountered a very specific and annoying bug:

nvim-hlslens: Humanized UI for search results with high performance, I'm the author.

Not exactly about fixing Vim's original match indicator, but from my experience, nvim-hlslens can show the total number of matches even if it's pretty big. I believe it's fine as long as the number is smaller than 100k.