Mini Misc

Miscellaneous useful functions

See more details in Features and Documentation.

[!NOTE] This was previously hosted at a personal echasnovski GitHub account. It was transferred to a dedicated organization to improve long term project stability. See more details here.

⦿ This is a part of mini.nvim library. Please use this link if you want to mention this module.

⦿ All contributions (issues, pull requests, discussions, etc.) are done inside of 'mini.nvim'.

⦿ See whole library documentation to learn about general design principles, disable/configuration recipes, and more.

⦿ See MiniMax for a full config example that uses this module.

If you want to help this project grow but don't know where to start, check out contributing guides of 'mini.nvim' or leave a Github star for 'mini.nvim' project and/or any its standalone Git repositories.

Demo

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/24854248/173044891-69b0ccfd-3fe8-4639-bc70-f955bbf4a1a7.mp4

Features

• bench_time() executes function several times and timing how long it took.
• log_add() / log_show() and other helper functions to work with a special in-memory log array. Useful when debugging Lua code (instead of print()).
• put() and put_text() print Lua objects in command line and current buffer respectively.
• resize_window() resizes current window to its editable width.
• safely() to execute a function on a condition and warn on error. Useful to organize 'init.lua' in fail-safe sections with simple lazy loading.
• setup_auto_root() sets up automated change of current directory.
• setup_termbg_sync() to set up terminal background synchronization (removes possible "frame" around current Neovim instance).
• setup_restore_cursor() sets up automated restoration of cursor position on file reopen.
• stat_summary() computes summary statistics of numerical array.
• tbl_head() and tbl_tail() return first and last elements of table.
• zoom() makes current buffer full screen in a floating window.
• And more.

Installation

This plugin can be installed as part of 'mini.nvim' library (recommended) or as a standalone Git repository.

There are two branches to install from:

• main (default, recommended) will have latest development version of plugin. All changes since last stable release should be perceived as being in beta testing phase (meaning they already passed alpha-testing and are moderately settled).
• stable will be updated only upon releases with code tested during public beta-testing phase in main branch.

Here are code snippets for some common installation methods (use only one):

Full library

Follow 'mini.nvim' installation.

Standalone plugin

Main branch:

vim.pack.add({ 'https://github.com/nvim-mini/mini.misc' })

Stable branch:

vim.pack.add({
  { src = 'https://github.com/nvim-mini/mini.misc', version = 'stable' },
})

Full library

Follow recommended 'mini.deps' installation.

Standalone plugin:

Main branch:

add('nvim-mini/mini.misc')

Stable branch:

add({ source = 'nvim-mini/mini.misc', checkout = 'stable' })

Full library

Follow 'mini.nvim' installation.

Standalone plugin

Main branch:

{ 'nvim-mini/mini.misc', version = false },

Stable branch:

{ 'nvim-mini/mini.misc', version = '*' },

Important: no need to call require('mini.misc').setup(), but it can be done to improve usability.

Note: if you are on Windows, there might be problems with too long file paths (like error: unable to create file <some file name>: Filename too long). Try doing one of the following:

• Enable corresponding git global config value: git config --system core.longpaths true. Then try to reinstall.
• Install plugin in other place with shorter path.

Default config

-- No need to copy this inside `setup()`. Will be used automatically.
{
  -- Array of fields to make global (to be used as independent variables)
  make_global = { 'put', 'put_text' },
}

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