feature request: highlight parent container

[notEvil]

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Describe the feature

It would be great if the highlight would be on the parent container

Provide background

Currently the highlight is on the closest container

What is the significance of this feature?

nice to have

Additional details

"nice to have" since I don't expect this to hit release anytime soon and I use the following patch which works so far

```diff diff --git a/lua/aerial/render.lua b/lua/aerial/render.lua index 0661915..1ab0b87 100644 --- a/lua/aerial/render.lua +++ b/lua/aerial/render.lua @@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ M.update_highlights = function(buf) if hl_mode == "last" then local pos = bufdata.positions[bufdata.last_win] if pos and (config.highlight_closest or pos.exact_symbol) then - M.highlight_line(aer_bufnr, ns, "AerialLine", pos.lnum - 1, 0, -1) + M.highlight_line(aer_bufnr, ns, "AerialLine", ((config.highlight_closest or not pos.exact_lnum) and pos.lnum or pos.exact_lnum) - 1, 0, -1) end return end @@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ M.update_highlights = function(buf) local pos = bufdata.positions[winid] if config.highlight_closest or pos.exact_symbol then local hl_group = winid == bufdata.last_win and "AerialLine" or "AerialLineNC" - M.highlight_line(aer_bufnr, ns, hl_group, pos.lnum - 1, start_hl, end_hl) + M.highlight_line(aer_bufnr, ns, hl_group, ((config.highlight_closest or not pos.exact_lnum) and pos.lnum or pos.exact_lnum) - 1, start_hl, end_hl) end if hl_mode ~= "full_width" then start_hl = end_hl diff --git a/lua/aerial/window.lua b/lua/aerial/window.lua index 414b407..9e6e592 100644 --- a/lua/aerial/window.lua +++ b/lua/aerial/window.lua @@ -424,12 +424,14 @@ M.get_symbol_position = function(bufdata, lnum, col, include_hidden) local relative = "above" local prev = nil local exact_symbol + local exact_lnum local symbol for _, item in bufdata:iter({ skip_hidden = not include_hidden }) do local cmp, inside = compare(item, lnum, col) if inside then exact_symbol = item + exact_lnum = selected + 1 if item.selection_range then cmp = compare(item.selection_range, lnum, col) end @@ -456,6 +458,7 @@ M.get_symbol_position = function(bufdata, lnum, col, include_hidden) lnum = math.max(1, selected), closest_symbol = symbol, exact_symbol = exact_symbol, + exact_lnum = exact_lnum, relative = relative, } end @@ -519,8 +522,11 @@ M.update_position = function(winids, last_focused_win) -- When aerial window is global, the items can change and cursor will move -- before the symbols are published, which causes the line number to be -- invalid. - if last_position and num_lines >= last_position.lnum then - vim.api.nvim_win_set_cursor(aer_winid, { last_position.lnum, 0 }) + if last_position then + local lnum = (config.highlight_closest or not last_position.exact_lnum) and last_position.lnum or last_position.exact_lnum + if lnum <= num_lines then + vim.api.nvim_win_set_cursor(aer_winid, { lnum, 0 }) + end end end end ```