steven-liou / skip-char

Skip-Char

1. A simple plugin that allows the user to type over delimiter characters. Useful for typing over HTML tags (>), ,, ;, |, and /.

   • Default characters to skip over are characters in [>;,/|]
   • However, you are free to use any regex to define what charaters to skip over

2. Another side feature is smart semi-colon. If ; is inserted at the end of line (for languages that use ";" to terminate a statement), a newline will automatically be inserted if the next character the user type is a "word" character.

   • The smart ; will be highlighted by default when ; is inserted at the end of the line.
   • This indicates that if the next character is alphanumeric, it will automatically be moved to the new line.
   • For programming languages that don't need ; at end of line, the smart ; acts as <CR>, so it makes going to next line easier to type. (see Settings for setting up filetypes for this behavior)

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Examples

• | represents the current cursor position

Before	Type	After
<div|></div>	>	<div>|</div>
<div>|</>	</	<div></|>
let a = 1;| (cursor is waiting...)	let b = 2	let a = 1; let b = 2
let a = 1;| (cursor is waiting...)	<SPACE>let b = 2	let a = 1; let b = 2

• Examples 1 and 2 show how typing over non-alphanumeric characters work
• Examples 3 and 4 show that after typing ; at the end of line, if you follow up with typing a non-white space character, it will automatically insert a <CR> and move to the next line for you.
• If you type a whitespace character aftet ;, then you continue on the current line

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Settings

• To set a list of characters to type over, set the regex for the characters
  • let g:skip_char_regex = "\[(),.;:]"
  • To dsiable skipping characters, you can set it to an empty regex ""
• To set a list of characters to automatically insert a newline character if at the end of the line
  • let g:nextline_char_regex = "\[;]", default allows for ;
• To disable automatically skipping nextline
  • let g:skip_char_nextline = 0
  • or set regex to empty string with let g:nextline_char_regex = ""
• To use smart ; as <CR>, you can specify the file types in a list
  • Default let g:semi_as_enter_filetypes = ["go", "python", "ruby"]
• To disable default highlight, set
  • let g:no_default_skip_char_highlight = 1,
• In addtion, you can set your own highlight with
  • highlight SkipCharNextline guifg=#9cdcfe guibg=#444444

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