kiryph
commented
5 years ago To clarify your feature request:
you want to jump directly to the begin or end of the highest level surrounding environment, most likely with the exception of \begin{document}\end{document}.
When we consider following example file
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{center}
\begin{align}
a = b (cursor)
\end{align}
\end{center}
\end{document}you want to navigate directly to the lines with \begin{center} or \end{center}.
I have a few thoughts about what you said and what I use:
-
Do you know that you can extend the selection created by
vaeby pressing againae? This is much more convenient compared to what you said:vae<Esc>vae<Esc>vsvaeae...ae<Esc>. -
I often have blank lines around the highest level of surrounding environment, e.g.:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. \begin{table} \centering \begin{tabular}{c|c} CURSOR \end{tabular} \caption{<+Caption text+>} \label{tab:<+label+>} \end{table} Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.I have defined the custom mappings
g{andg}in the spirit of{and}but to place the cursor on the first non-blank line below blank lines:nnoremap <silent> g} \ :let old = @/ \ <bar>/^$\n\s*\zs\S<CR> \ <bar>:nohlsearch \ <bar>call histdel('/', -1) \ <bar>let @/ = old<CR> nnoremap <silent> g{ \ :let old = @/ \ <bar>?\(^$\n\s*\zs\S\)\<bar>\%^<CR> \ <bar>:nohlsearch \ <bar>call histdel('/', -1) \ <bar>let @/ = old<CR> -
repmo-vim Another idea is to use the plugin https://github.com/Houl/repmo-vim. This makes it possible to configure
[m,]m, ... so that you can press;and,to repeat them next tofFtT.$MYVIMRC:map <expr> ; repmo#LastKey(';')|sunmap ; map <expr> , repmo#LastRevKey(',')|sunmap , for key in [ 'f', 'F', 't', 'T'] execute 'noremap <expr> '.key." repmo#ZapKey('".key."')|sunmap ".key endfor~/.vim/after/ftplugin/tex.vim:map <expr><buffer> ]] repmo#Key('<plug>(vimtex-]])', '<plug>(vimtex-[[)')|sunmap <buffer> ]] map <expr><buffer> [[ repmo#Key('<plug>(vimtex-[[)', '<plug>(vimtex-]])')|sunmap <buffer> [[ map <expr><buffer> ][ repmo#Key('<plug>(vimtex-][)', '<plug>(vimtex-[])')|sunmap <buffer> ][ map <expr><buffer> [] repmo#Key('<plug>(vimtex-[])', '<plug>(vimtex-][)')|sunmap <buffer> [] map <expr><buffer> ]m repmo#Key('<plug>(vimtex-]m)', '<plug>(vimtex-[m)')|sunmap <buffer> ]m map <expr><buffer> [m repmo#Key('<plug>(vimtex-[m)', '<plug>(vimtex-]m)')|sunmap <buffer> [m map <expr><buffer> ]M repmo#Key('<plug>(vimtex-]M)', '<plug>(vimtex-[M)')|sunmap <buffer> ]M map <expr><buffer> [M repmo#Key('<plug>(vimtex-[M)', '<plug>(vimtex-]M)')|sunmap <buffer> [M map <expr><buffer> ]* repmo#Key('<plug>(vimtex-]*)', '<plug>(vimtex-[*)')|sunmap <buffer> ]* map <expr><buffer> [* repmo#Key('<plug>(vimtex-[*)', '<plug>(vimtex-]*)')|sunmap <buffer> [* map <expr><buffer> ]/ repmo#Key('<plug>(vimtex-]/)', '<plug>(vimtex-[/)')|sunmap <buffer> ]/ map <expr><buffer> [/ repmo#Key('<plug>(vimtex-[/)', '<plug>(vimtex-]/)')|sunmap <buffer> [/Now you would press
[m;to reach the line\begin{center}and]m;to reach the line\end{center}. Repeated pressing of;is much more pleasant. Overshooting can be undone with,.
dbankmann
lervag
First, I really like the motions [m, [M, etc. . However, sometimes when writing up my latex stuff, they are a bit counter-intuitive. Sometimes, I really have long equation/align environments with lots of subenvironments. It is not really feasible to count all of that subenvironments to simply go to the end of the surrounding environment.
It would be nice to have additional motions that allow me to go to the beginning/end of surrounding environments. In principle you could just do
vae<ESC>andvae<<ESC>, but that's a bit cumbersome.