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manual-pairs: Neovim plugin that rethinks the concept of automatically pairing delimiters (git.sr.ht)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I love the idea of less-automatic pairs.

I wish there was a plugin that keeps track of unclosed pairs, but instead of inserting them automatically, it just reminds you of them and their order.

For some reason, inserting pairs automatically disorients me a bit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That’s an interesting idea. How exactly would you imagine it to work?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There's a couple of ways I can see it:

highlights unclosed pairs
closing pairs shown as faded / gray text, kind of like some auto complete systems like copilot in vscode.
it could be some key bind you press, and it closes the next unclosed pair

The following is less preferred but still works: maybe the status line or a pop up shows the order of unclosed pairs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I think all of those suggestions are feasible. However, what should the plugin do in situations when a delimiter is deliberately left unclosed, such as character literals? I wouldn’t want it to permanently suggest the corresponding closing delimiter.