Ever hammered the {w,W,b,B,e,E,;,,} keys to finally pass over the location you were aiming for?
ShowMotion is a tiny vim plugin to highlight the potential landing places when moving:
- by words with {
w,W,b,B,e,E}. - by chars with {
f,F,t,T,;,,}
Somewhat inspired by the EasyMotion plugin, this one is only aimed at providing cues about where you'll land, not allowing to select a specific landing place. The pleasant consequence of this is it doesn't break your moving flow, which was the motivation for writing it.
Installation:
I suggest using pathogen
Add these highlighting settings to your vimrc:
highlight SM_SmallMotionGroup cterm=italic ctermbg=53 gui=italic guibg=#5f005f
highlight SM_BigMotionGroup cterm=italic,bold,underline ctermbg=54 gui=italic,bold,underline guibg=#5f0087
highlight SM_CharSearchGroup cterm=italic,bold ctermbg=4 gui=italic,bold guibg=#3f6691
Add these word-motion settings to your vimrc:
"*** Highlights both big and small motions
nmap w <Plug>(show-motion-both-w)
nmap W <Plug>(show-motion-both-W)
nmap b <Plug>(show-motion-both-b)
nmap B <Plug>(show-motion-both-B)
nmap e <Plug>(show-motion-both-e)
nmap E <Plug>(show-motion-both-E)
"*** Only highlights motions corresponding to the one you typed
nmap w <Plug>(show-motion-w)
nmap W <Plug>(show-motion-W)
nmap b <Plug>(show-motion-b)
nmap B <Plug>(show-motion-B)
nmap e <Plug>(show-motion-e)
nmap E <Plug>(show-motion-E)
Add these character-motion settings to your vimrc:
"Show motion for chars:
nmap f <Plug>(show-motion-f)
nmap t <Plug>(show-motion-t)
nmap F <Plug>(show-motion-F)
nmap T <Plug>(show-motion-T)
nmap ; <Plug>(show-motion-;)
nmap , <Plug>(show-motion-,)
Known limitations:
Efails on highlighting the last character in the line
Errors on update?
- A gif was pushed on the repo, I realized it wasn't a good idea, thus I removed it from the repo and its history. The internet says this may cause some troubles.
- I changed the function's names, hence mappings need to be updated.
Thanks:
- IRC: #vim, sakkemo, bairui, Raimondi and many others
- Github: itchyny, haya14busa, Pyrohh