vim-lsp-cxx-highlight VS nvim

This vim plugin has worked for me for semantic highlighting: https://github.com/jackguo380/vim-lsp-cxx-highlight

" 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

By looking around the Web, I think you can maybe do what you want in Vim with this plugin, which requires you to setup an LSP server for C (note: I haven't tried it). Otherwise, the way Vim makes its syntax highlighting (natively) simply cannot compete with tree-sitter or LSP-based highlighting which construct the entire AST of your code, because C's syntax is too complex. There is a proposal to include an alternative syntax highlighting system, but work on it hasn't even started as far as I know, so vim-lsp-cxx-highlight and tree-sitter are really the only way to highlight identifiers in C/C++.

I use coc.nvim with e.g. coc-clangd extension (with https://github.com/jackguo380/vim-lsp-cxx-highlight for extra highlighting, but that might not be necessary anymore with some recent update I think I read somewhere) which has a similar feature, but uses the compiler settings from a compile_commands.json or some configuration file to know which defines are which value, to do this kind of ifdef block highlighting.

I was abled to build ccls on a RHEL 6 machine which also supports semantic highlighting with the help of this plugin. Would suggest to try that out.

Yes there is and just makes it so for insert mode and search and stuff. I made this for myself with the same issue: https://github.com/rdpopov/nvim/blob/master/configs/lang.vim

Aight, here you go. I have some modifications i have made for me, that might be useful. Some of the photos are outdated, statusline very much so, i use something plain and clean of weird characters. But it works for generic text editing as well. https://github.com/rdpopov/nvim. Strongly recommend tmux too

You could try this as an alternative to sneak - phaazon/hop.nvim. And im not sure what the grep plugin does but vim has grep integrated. I use it like a ripgrep though. Look into liuchengxu/vista.vim if you haven't, it kinda does like an outline and does not require an lsp( but it can use it) so its more versatile. Look into undotree if that is something that might interest you, it's useful, and maybe set up persistent undo and undodir. Since there is someone else that said about native lsp.. I'll just say its way easier to set up a language server to work correctly. Another cool plugin to use is ray-x/navigator.lua, used it mainly to look at references but it's got more uses. I find airline to slow startup time so if you are experiencing a slowdown thats a possible culprit. Here is my config, steal if you want to. neovim

i have somehow made it work a little bit different for the completion and still works great nvimrc