manual-pairs: Neovim plugin that rethinks the concept of automatically pairing delimiters

https://git.sr.ht/~xigoi/nvim-manual-pairs

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6 Comments

matcha_addict@lemy.lol · 4 pts · 2y (3 replies)

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@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 2y (2 replies)

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

matcha_addict@lemy.lol · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 2y

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.

promitheas@iusearchlinux.fyi · 3 pts · 2y

Ive been looking for an alternative auto-pair plugin, so I'll check this out. Thanks

philwills@programming.dev · 2 pts · 2y

Interesting idea... Thanks!