Detect more complicated actions / commands

[smjonas]

Thanks for the plugin! While I haven't tried it myself, it seems like the scope of this plugin is currently mostly focused around Vim movements such as hjkl. In the past, there have been other requests for a plugin that can detect more complex actions / Vim motions and suggest better alternatives. So my first question is: is that even something you would consider for this plugin or should it stay relatively simple in scope?

As an example, I could imagine things like:

• if the user uses daw + i, suggest caw instead
• $ + a => A; ^ + i => I; y$ => Y (y$ has been remapped to Y by default in Neovim)

While the above suggestions should be relatively simple to implement, there are many many others that can get arbitrarily more complicated since they require analyzing a part of the buffer's edit history (i.e. the last n changes). Examples:

• the user changes ex|ample (| is the cursor position) to sample but uses ciwsample => suggest cbs instead
• the user appends the same string to multiple consecutive lines (e.g. with dot repeat) => suggest to use <c-i> (blockwise visual mode) or the norm command

One could even suggest plugins to simplify certain actions:

• the user changes local x to -- local x in a Lua file but enters insert mode (e.g. I-- <esc>) => suggest a commenting plugin such as mini.comment
• the user changes some |word here to some (word)| here but enters insert mode (e.g. i(<esc>ea)<esc>) => suggest a surrounding plugin such as nvim-surround

Ideally, it should be possible to dismiss certain suggestions in which case it won't be shown for the current session or never again. Let me know if you could imagine such suggestions as part of the plugin or not! :)

[m4xshen]

Thanks for your long feedback! I would definitely consider to add more complicated actions for detection. My first goal is to add the general delete + insert motion into change motion.

As for:

ciwsample => suggest cbs instead

This kind of detection is more complicated and I'll try to implement after finishing the first one.

btw these two are already in hardtime.nvim:

$ + a => A; ^ + i => I

[juiceDeLemon]

maybe f\<char>h should trigger a warning "Use t\<char> instead of f\<char>h" and the reverse ("F\<char>l" -> "T\<char>" and "t\<char>l" -> "f\<char>" and "T\<char>h" -> "F\<char>")

[juiceDeLemon]

ah I just thought of more. "diwi" should be shortened to "ciw". basically "d something i" -> "c something". I don't know the operator mode would work though.

[m4xshen]

My first goal is to add the general delete + insert motion into change motion.

Yeah this is just what I want to do first. Thanks!

[m4xshen]

You can now get the hints about delete + insert and f/F/t/T in the latest version! You can also write your own hints in the config. See examples