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==============================================================================

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*mini.nvim*

*mini.txt* Collection of minimal, independent and fast Lua modules

Author: Evgeni Chasnovski

License: MIT

|mini.nvim| is a collection of minimal, independent, and fast Lua modules

dedicated to improve Neovim (version 0.5 and higher) experience. Each

module can be considered as a separate sub-plugin.

Table of contents:

General overview.................................................|mini.nvim|

Disabling recepies.............................|mini.nvim-disabling-recipes|

Buffer-local config..........................|mini.nvim-buffer-local-config|

Plugin colorschemes.....................................|mini-color-schemes|

Extend and create a/i textobjects..................................|mini.ai|

Align text interactively........................................|mini.align|

Base16 colorscheme creation....................................|mini.base16|

Remove buffers..............................................|mini.bufremove|

Comment.......................................................|mini.comment|

Completion and signature help..............................|mini.completion|

Autohighlight word under cursor............................|mini.cursorword|

Generate Neovim help files........................................|mini.doc|

Fuzzy matching..................................................|mini.fuzzy|

Visualize and operate on indent scope.....................|mini.indentscope|

Jump forward/backward to a single character......................|mini.jump|

Jump within visible lines......................................|mini.jump2d|

Miscellaneous functions..........................................|mini.misc|

Autopairs.......................................................|mini.pairs|

Session management...........................................|mini.sessions|

Start screen..................................................|mini.starter|

Statusline.................................................|mini.statusline|

Surround actions.............................................|mini.surround|

Tabline.......................................................|mini.tabline|

Test Neovim plugins..............................................|mini.test|

Trailspace (highlight and remove)..........................|mini.trailspace|

# General principles~

- <Design>. Each module is designed to solve a particular problem targeting

balance between feature-richness (handling as many edge-cases as

possible) and simplicity of implementation/support. Granted, not all of

them ended up with the same balance, but it is the goal nevertheless.

- <Independence>. Modules are independent of each other and can be run

without external dependencies. Although some of them may need

dependencies for full experience.

- <Structure>. Each module is a submodule for a placeholder "mini" module. So,

for example, "surround" module should be referred to as "mini.surround".

As later will be explained, this plugin can also be referred to

as "MiniSurround".

- <Setup>:

- Each module (if needed) should be setup separately with

`require(<name of module>).setup({})`

(possibly replace {} with your config table or omit to use defaults).

You can supply only values which differ from defaults, which will be

used for the rest ones.

- Call to module's `setup()` always creates a global Lua object with

coherent camel-case name: `require('mini.surround').setup()` creates

`_G.MiniSurround`. This allows for a simpler usage of plugin

functionality: instead of `require('mini.surround')` use

`MiniSurround` (or manually `:lua MiniSurround.*` in command line);

available from `v:lua` like `v:lua.MiniSurround`. Considering this,

"module" and "Lua object" names can be used interchangeably:

'mini.surround' and 'MiniSurround' will mean the same thing.

- Each supplied `config` table (after extending with default values) is

stored in `config` field of global object. Like `MiniSurround.config`.

- Values of `config`, which affect runtime activity, can be changed on

the fly to have effect. For example, `MiniSurround.config.n_lines`

can be changed during runtime; but changing

`MiniSurround.config.mappings` won't have any effect (as mappings are

created once during `setup()`).

- <Buffer local configuration>. Each module can be additionally configured

to use certain runtime config settings locally to buffer. See

|mini.nvim-buffer-local-config| for more information.

- <Disabling>. Each module's core functionality can be disabled globally or

buffer-locally by creating appropriate global or buffer-scoped variables

equal to |v:true|. See |mini.nvim-disabling-recipes| for common recipes.

- <Highlight groups>. Appearance of module's output is controlled by

certain highlight group (see |highlight-groups|). To customize them, use

|highlight| command. Note: currently not many Neovim themes support this

plugin's highlight groups; fixing this situation is highly appreciated.

To see a more calibrated look, use |MiniBase16| or plugin's colorschemes.

- <Stability>. Each module upon release is considered to be relatively

stable: both in terms of setup and functionality. Any

non-bugfix backward-incompatible change will be released gradually as

much as possible.

# List of modules~

- |MiniAi| - extend and create `a`/`i` textobjects (like in `di(` or

`va"`). It enhances some builtin |text-objects| (like |a(|, |a)|, |a'|,

and more), creates new ones (like `a*`, `a<Space>`, `af`, `a?`, and

more), and allows user to create their own (like based on treesitter, and

more). Supports dot-repeat, `v:count`, different search methods,

consecutive application, and customization via Lua patterns or functions.

Has builtins for brackets, quotes, function call, argument, tag, user

prompt, and any punctuation/digit/whitespace character.

- |MiniAlign| - align text interactively (with or without instant preview).

Allows rich and flexible customization of both alignment rules and user

interaction. Works with charwise, linewise, and blockwise selections in

both Normal mode (on textobject/motion; with dot-repeat) and Visual mode.

- |MiniBase16| - fast implementation of base16 theme for manually supplied

palette. Supports 30+ plugin integrations. Has unique palette generator

which needs only background and foreground colors.

- |MiniBufremove| - buffer removing (unshow, delete, wipeout) while saving

window layout.

- |MiniComment| - fast and familiar per-line code commenting.

- |MiniCompletion| - async (with customizable 'debounce' delay) 'two-stage

chain completion': first builtin LSP, then configurable fallback. Also

has functionality for completion item info and function signature (both

in floating window appearing after customizable delay).

- |MiniCursorword| - automatic highlighting of word under cursor (displayed

after customizable delay). Current word under cursor can be highlighted

differently.

- |MiniDoc| - generation of help files from EmmyLua-like annotations.

Allows flexible customization of output via hook functions. Used for

documenting this plugin.

- |MiniFuzzy| - functions for fast and simple fuzzy matching. It has

not only functions to perform fuzzy matching of one string to others, but

also a sorter for |telescope.nvim|.

- |MiniIndentscope| - Visualize and operate on indent scope. Supports

customization of debounce delay, animation style, and different

granularity of options for scope computing algorithm.

- |MiniJump| - minimal and fast module for smarter jumping to a single

character.

- |MiniJump2d| - minimal and fast Lua plugin for jumping (moving cursor)

within visible lines via iterative label filtering. Supports custom jump

targets (spots), labels, hooks, allowed windows and lines, and more.

- |MiniMisc| - collection of miscellaneous useful functions. Like `put()`

and `put_text()` which print Lua objects to command line and current

buffer respectively.

- |MiniPairs| - autopairs plugin which has minimal defaults and

functionality to do per-key expression mappings.

- |MiniSessions| - session management (read, write, delete) which works

using |mksession|. Implements both global (from configured directory) and

local (from current directory) sessions.

- |MiniStarter| - minimal, fast, and flexible start screen. Displayed items

are fully customizable both in terms of what they do and how they look

(with reasonable defaults). Item selection can be done using prefix query

with instant visual feedback.

- |MiniStatusline| - minimal and fast statusline. Has ability to use custom

content supplied with concise function (using module's provided section

functions) along with builtin default. For full experience needs [Nerd

font](https://www.nerdfonts.com/),

[gitsigns.nvim](https://github.com/lewis6991/gitsigns.nvim) plugin, and

[nvim-web-devicons](https://github.com/kyazdani42/nvim-web-devicons)

plugin (but works without any them).

- |MiniSurround| - fast and feature-rich surround plugin. Add, delete,

replace, find, highlight surrounding (like pair of parenthesis, quotes,

etc.). Supports dot-repeat, `v:count`, different search methods,

"last"/"next" extended mappings, customization via Lua patterns or

functions, and more. Has builtins for brackets, function call, tag, user

prompt, and any alphanumeric/punctuation/whitespace character.

- |MiniTest| - framework for writing extensive Neovim plugin tests.

Supports hierarchical tests, hooks, parametrization, filtering (like from

current file or cursor position), screen tests, "busted-style" emulation,

customizable reporters, and more. Designed to be used with provided

wrapper for managing child Neovim processes.

- |MiniTabline| - minimal tabline which always shows listed (see 'buflisted')

buffers. Allows showing extra information section in case of multiple vim

tabpages. For full experience needs

[nvim-web-devicons](https://github.com/kyazdani42/nvim-web-devicons).

- |MiniTrailspace| - automatic highlighting of trailing whitespace with

functionality to remove it.

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*mini.nvim-disabling-recipes*

Common recipes for disabling functionality

Each module's core functionality can be disabled globally or buffer-locally

by creating appropriate global or buffer-scoped variables equal to

|v:true|. Functionality is disabled if at least one of `g:` or `b:`

variables is equal to `v:true`.

Variable names have the same structure: `{g,b}:mini*_disable` where `*` is

module's lowercase name. For example, `g:minicursorword_disable` disables

|mini.cursorword| globally and `b:minicursorword_disable` - for

corresponding buffer. Note: in this section disabling 'mini.cursorword' is

used as example; everything holds for other module variables.

Considering high number of different scenarios and customization intentions,

writing exact rules for disabling module's functionality is left to user.

# Manual disabling~

- Disable globally:

Lua - `:lua vim.g.minicursorword_disable=true`

Vimscript - `:let g:minicursorword_disable=v:true`

- Disable for current buffer:

Lua - `:lua vim.b.minicursorword_disable=true`

Vimscript - `:let b:minicursorword_disable=v:true`

- Toggle (disable if enabled, enable if disabled):

Globally - `:lua vim.g.minicursorword_disable = not vim.g.minicursorword_disable`

For buffer - `:lua vim.b.minicursorword_disable = not vim.b.minicursorword_disable`

# Automated disabling~

- Disable for a certain |filetype| (for example, "markdown"):

`autocmd Filetype markdown lua vim.b.minicursorword_disable = true`

- Enable only for certain filetypes (for example, "lua" and "python"):

`au FileType * if index(['lua', 'python'], &ft) < 0 | let b:minicursorword_disable=v:true | endif`

- Disable in Insert mode (use similar pattern for Terminal mode or indeed

any other mode change with |ModeChanged| starting from Neovim 0.7.0):

`au InsertEnter * lua vim.b.minicursorword_disable = true`

`au InsertLeave * lua vim.b.minicursorword_disable = false`

- Disable in Terminal buffer:

`au TermOpen * lua vim.b.minicursorword_disable = true`

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*mini.nvim-buffer-local-config*

Buffer local config

Each module can be additionally configured locally to buffer by creating

appropriate buffer-scoped variable with values you want to override. It

will affect only runtime options and not those used once during setup (like

`mappings` or `set_vim_settings`).

Variable names have the same structure: `b:mini*_config` where `*` is

module's lowercase name. For example, `b:minicursorword_config` can store

information about how |mini.cursorword| will act inside current buffer. Its

value should be a table with same structure as module's `config`.

Continuing example, `vim.b.minicursorword_config = { delay = 500 }` will

use delay 500 inside current buffer.

Considering high number of different scenarios and customization intentions,

writing exact rules for module's buffer local configuration is left to

user. It is done in similar fashion to |mini.nvim-disabling-recipes|.

No 30E0 te: using function values inside buffer variables requires Neovim>=0.7.

vim:tw=78:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl:

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