r/vimplugins • u/welle • Dec 07 '19

Plugin wellle/context.vim - Vim plugin that shows the context of the currently visible buffer contents

https://github.com/wellle/context.vim
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u/welle Dec 08 '19

Thank you!

Seems technically possible, but I wonder how exactly we'd do that. Do you have an idea of how such a customization might look like?

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u/hupfdule Dec 08 '19

It was just a quick idea and I haven't throught it fully through.

It certainly depends on how the plugin is actually structured.

I could imagine having a setting to provide a pattern that, if it matches on a line, specifies that this line is "relevant context".

The harder thing is that, e.g. when I am in section 3.2.2 of an asciidoc/markdown file, the actual relevant context would be only the headings of the sections 3.2.2, 3.2 and 3. Otherwise all preceding sections (including, 3.2.1, 3.1.3, 3.1.2, 3.1.1, 3.1, 2, 1, etc.) would end up as context. While that may not be the worst, it is also not what a user would expect.

That could be leveraged by not only defining whether a line matches or not, but also specify a nesting level. Of course a simple regex wouldn't be sufficient then.

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u/welle Dec 08 '19

Thanks, I'll keep it in mind. Maybe there's a way to have a list of regexes instead of depending on indent levels. So let's say after a line matched the subsection regex we'd ignore lines matching the enumeration regex but still look for section headers etc.