[mini.ai] Incremental selection

[dpetka2001]

Example:

return {
  {
    "neovim/nvim-lspconfig",
    opts = {
      diagnostics = {
        virtual_text = false,
        virtual_lines = true,
      },
    },
  },
  {
    "ErichDonGubler/lsp_lines.nvim",
    url = "https://git.sr.ht/~whynothugo/lsp_lines.nvim",
    opts = {},
    keys = {
      { "<leader>l", "<cmd>lua require('lsp_lines').toggle()<cr>", desc = "Toggle lsp_lines" },
    },
  },
}

How could I incrementally select the 2 inner {} objects? With the cursor in neovim/nvim-lspconfig if I do va} it selects the region spec of nvim-lspconfig. I would like to increment the selection to also include the region with lsp_lines spec. Is that possible?

[echasnovski]

How could I incrementally select the 2 inner {} objects? With the cursor in neovim/nvim-lspconfig if I do va} it selects the region spec of nvim-lspconfig. I would like to increment the selection to also include the region with lsp_lines spec. Is that possible?

Any 'mini.ai' textobject supports that by repeating it. More detailed: any application of textobject searches it so that to contain current selection. When you press v is selects current character. Then pressing a} searches for "around }" which contains current selection (single character). Pressing a} again will search for a} which contains current selection, and so on. This can also be done with [count] in Visual and Operator-pending mode (try v2a} and d2a}).

TL;DR: try typing a} once again.

[dpetka2001]

Thank you for your explanation. However, doing either v2a} or va} followed by another a} also selects the brackets that belong to return along with the 2 selected specs that I want. Is this normal behavior?

[echasnovski]

Thank you for your explanation. However, doing either v2a} or va} followed by another a} also selects the brackets that belong to return along with the 2 selected specs that I want. Is this normal behavior?

Yes, with default "cover_or_next" search method it is the one that should be selected, as it is the smallest region surrounded by balanced curly brackets and covering current selection. If you want to select two consecutive regions, both surrounded by the balanced {}, then it is not immediately possible with 'mini.ai', as the result will not be the smallest region.

In this particular case you can try to use i{ (not opening bracket) which will select inside {} without edge whitespace. But this won't work if there are more than 2 entries.

Another approach might be to move cursor manually to the { at the start of next argument and press % which will move it until matching }.

[dpetka2001]

I see what you mean. I think I understand a little better now how it works. Yes vi{ will only work if there are only 2 entries for my purpose, otherwise going to the next { and pressing % will do the trick for my specific case. Thank you very much again for your insight.