Skip-Char

A simple plugin that allows the user to type over delimiter characters. Useful for typing over HTML tags (>), ,, ;, |, and /.
- Default characters to skip over are characters in [>;,/|]
- However, you are free to use any regex to define what charaters to skip over
Another side feature is smart semi-colon. If ; is inserted at the end of line (for languages that use ";" to terminate a statement), a newline will automatically be inserted if the next character the user type is a "word" character.
- The smart ; will be highlighted by default when ; is inserted at the end of the line.
- This indicates that if the next character is alphanumeric, it will automatically be moved to the new line.
- For programming languages that don't need ; at end of line, the smart ; acts as <CR>, so it makes going to next line easier to type. (see Settings for setting up filetypes for this behavior)

Examples

Examples 1 and 2 show how typing over non-alphanumeric characters work
Examples 3 and 4 show that after typing ; at the end of line, if you follow up with typing a non-white space character, it will automatically insert a <CR> and move to the next line for you.
If you type a whitespace character aftet ;, then you continue on the current line

To set a list of characters to type over, set the regex for the characters
- let g:skip_char_regex = "\[(),.;:]"
- To dsiable skipping characters, you can set it to an empty regex ""
To set a list of characters to automatically insert a newline character if at the end of the line
- let g:nextline_char_regex = "\[;]", default allows for ;
To disable automatically skipping nextline
- let g:skip_char_nextline = 0
- or set regex to empty string with let g:nextline_char_regex = ""
To use smart ; as <CR>, you can specify the file types in a list
- Default let g:semi_as_enter_filetypes = ["go", "python", "ruby"]
To disable default highlight, set
- let g:no_default_skip_char_highlight = 1,
In addtion, you can set your own highlight with
- highlight SkipCharNextline guifg=#9cdcfe guibg=#444444