29
manual-pairs: Neovim plugin that rethinks the concept of automatically pairing delimiters (git.sr.ht)
submitted 5 months ago by xigoi to c/neovim@programming.dev
6 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] matcha_addict@lemy.lol 4 points 5 months ago

I love the idea of less-automatic pairs.

I wish there was a plugin that keeps track of unclosed pairs, but instead of inserting them automatically, it just reminds you of them and their order.

For some reason, inserting pairs automatically disorients me a bit.

[-] xigoi 1 points 5 months ago

That’s an interesting idea. How exactly would you imagine it to work?

[-] matcha_addict@lemy.lol 1 points 5 months ago

There's a couple of ways I can see it:

  • highlights unclosed pairs
  • closing pairs shown as faded / gray text, kind of like some auto complete systems like copilot in vscode.
  • it could be some key bind you press, and it closes the next unclosed pair

The following is less preferred but still works: maybe the status line or a pop up shows the order of unclosed pairs.

[-] xigoi 1 points 5 months ago

I think all of those suggestions are feasible. However, what should the plugin do in situations when a delimiter is deliberately left unclosed, such as character literals? I wouldn’t want it to permanently suggest the corresponding closing delimiter.

this post was submitted on 14 Mar 2024
29 points (100.0% liked)

Neovim

2035 readers
1 users here now

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
erlingur@programming.dev
howarddo@programming.dev
kahnclusions@programming.dev
lung@lemmy.world