vim-unimpaired VS ctrlsf.vim

I don't think it moves blocks, but I utilize the venerable vim-unimpaired for basic text movement (and for inserting empty lines from normal mode).

vim-unimpaired gives a mapping for that for ] (and [ to insert an empty lines above the cursor).

I use https://github.com/tpope/vim-unimpaired for this.

Is it possible to install a Vim plugin (like https://github.com/tpope/vim-unimpaired/tree/master)?

HJKL for movement, then mapped arrow keys to this (requires unimpaired): " Normal mode: indent or move line nmap [e nmap ]e nmap << nmap >> " Visual mode: indent or move selection vmap [egv vmap ]egv vmap >gv

Just now I was looking at the manual entry for vim-unimpaired, since I couldn't remember the incantation for swapping two lines. (It's ]e and [e for swap forward and swap backward.)

Switch buffers with :b or the ]b [b bindings from unimpaired.

and a nice toggle remap that I found here to edit Markdown without conceal: vim.keymap.set("n", "tc", ":setlocal =&conceallevel ? 'conceallevel=0' : 'conceallevel=2'", { desc = "[T]oggle [C]onceallevel"} )

imo there are even few plugin authors who actually understand this well, and certainly no distro author does. Some of the few examples of good "vim philosophy" plugins are vim-sneak and vim-unimpaired.

https://github.com/tpope/vim-unimpaired. I still use it a lot and it’s one of the few remaining vimscript plug-ins I have. It is also quite slow to load. It would be fantastic to have a Lua equivalent.

Here is an example of a plugin spec for ctrlsf.vim.

This has been clutch for me https://github.com/dyng/ctrlsf.vim

You can try this plugin https://github.com/dyng/ctrlsf.vim . It provides something similar to what you explained, but you need to scope it manually if you want it only for current buffer.

I use ctrlsf.vim - how does your plugin compare to that one? Would it be a potential replacement now or in the future?

There is dyng/ctrlsf.vim, specificaly the edit-mode

There's also ctrlsf

Cool. Looks interesting! I use less known (I think) plugin called CtrlSF, which gives the same type of functionality. In my experience, CtrlSF has a very good user interface and feels intuitive to use.

ctrlsf

ctrlsf.vim - Project Wide Find + Replace (req)

If you are not a fan of the quickfix list have a look at ctrlsf.vim. It's more like Sublime text's search and replace.