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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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Ive been looking for an alternative auto-pair plugin, so I'll check this out. Thanks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Interesting idea... Thanks!