how to add spaces as pairs when inside a pair? about mini.nvim HOT 3 CLOSED

@hunleyd, wanted to mention that thanks to this issue I decided to slightly redesign mapping process in 'mini.pairs' to make it (hopefully) more user-friendly. Now you can make global mappings in config and they will be automatically registered for <BS> and <CR> (if not changed explicitly). Also work with pair mappings now should be done with MiniPairs.map(), MiniPairs.map_buf(), MiniPairs.unmap(), MiniPairs.unmap_buf().

For example, global mappings for , <, and > can look something like this:

  require('mini.pairs').setup({
    mappings = {
      [' '] = { action = 'open', pair = '  ', neigh_pattern = '[%(%[{][%)%]}]' },
      ['<'] = { action = 'open', pair = '<>' },
      ['>'] = { action = 'close', pair = '<>' },
    },
  })

Also, all previous mappings (except ones with MiniPairs.bs() and MiniPairs.cr() which use custom pair list) still work as before.

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Thank you for your kind words!

Originally, informal general idea of 'mini.pairs' is this: "here are a bunch of autopairs-related actions; use them to make mappings for keys that you want; common ones are already done by default". I might rethink this in future, because coming back to it, this might be a little bit heavy on user-friendliness.

So about spaces. There are three actions supported: open(), close(), closeopen(). All of them work if cursor neighborhood (characters to left and right of cursor) is matched with supplied twochars_pattern (which is a Lua pattern). Unfortunately, Lua patterns don't seem to support alteration. So user can't say "match if neighborhood is this, or this, or this". The closest behavior to this might be "match if left character is one of these and right character is one of these". To add this behavior to space which checks for ([{ to the right and )]} to the left, make a standard Neovim mapping:

• In Lua:

  vim.api.nvim_set_keymap('i', ' ', [[v:lua.MiniPairs.open('  ', '[%(%[{][%)%]}]')]], { expr = true, noremap = true })

• In Vimscript:

  inoremap <expr> <space> v:lua.MiniPairs.open('  ', '[%(%[{][%)%]}]')

With <> everything is the same: make mappings. You, probably, would want something like this:

• In Lua:

  vim.api.nvim_set_keymap('i', '<', [[v:lua.MiniPairs.open('<>', '[^\\].')]], { expr = true, noremap = true })
  vim.api.nvim_set_keymap('i', '>', [[v:lua.MiniPairs.close('<>', '[^\\].')]], { expr = true, noremap = true })

• In Vimscript:

  inoremap <expr> < v:lua.MiniPairs.open('<>', '[^\\].')
  inoremap <expr> > v:lua.MiniPairs.close('<>', '[^\\].')

A big NOTE though. Currently all this does is mapping a key to an action. To make <BS> and <CR> respect new pairs, you need to remap them accordingly (supply full table of cursor neighborhoods in which those should act).

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excellent, thank you! i have this working as desired now.

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