mini-move.md

Move any selection in any direction

See more details in Features and help file.

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

⦿ See the repository page to learn about common design principles and configuration recipes.

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Demo

demo-move.mp4

Features

• Works in two modes:
  • Visual mode. Select text (charwise with v, linewise with V, and blockwise with CTRL-V) and press customizable mapping to move in all four directions (left, right, down, up). It keeps Visual mode.
  • Normal mode. Press customizable mapping to move current line in all four directions (left, right, down, up).
  • Special handling of linewise movement:
    • Vertical movement gets reindented with =.
    • Horizontal movement is improved indent/dedent with > / <.
    • Cursor moves along with selection.
• Provides both mappings and Lua functions for motions. See :h MiniMove.move_selection() and :h MiniMove.move_line().
• Respects v:count. Movement mappings can be preceded by a number which multiplies command effect.
• All consecutive moves (regardless of direction) can be undone by a single u.
• Respects preferred column for vertical movement. It will vertically move selection as how cursor is moving (not strictly vertically if target column is not present in target line).

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):

With mini.deps

Github repo	Branch	Code snippet
'mini.nvim' library	Main	Follow recommended 'mini.deps' installation
	Stable
Standalone plugin	Main	add('echasnovski/mini.move')
	Stable	add({ source = 'echasnovski/mini.move', checkout = 'stable' })

With folke/lazy.nvim

Github repo	Branch	Code snippet
'mini.nvim' library	Main	{ 'echasnovski/mini.nvim', version = false },
	Stable	{ 'echasnovski/mini.nvim', version = '*' },
Standalone plugin	Main	{ 'echasnovski/mini.move', version = false },
	Stable	{ 'echasnovski/mini.move', version = '*' },

With junegunn/vim-plug

Github repo	Branch	Code snippet
'mini.nvim' library	Main	Plug 'echasnovski/mini.nvim'
	Stable	Plug 'echasnovski/mini.nvim', { 'branch': 'stable' }
Standalone plugin	Main	Plug 'echasnovski/mini.move'
	Stable	Plug 'echasnovski/mini.move', { 'branch': 'stable' }

Important: don't forget to call require('mini.move').setup() to enable its functionality.

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.
{
  -- Module mappings. Use `''` (empty string) to disable one.
  mappings = {
    -- Move visual selection in Visual mode. Defaults are Alt (Meta) + hjkl.
    left = '<M-h>',
    right = '<M-l>',
    down = '<M-j>',
    up = '<M-k>',

    -- Move current line in Normal mode
    line_left = '<M-h>',
    line_right = '<M-l>',
    line_down = '<M-j>',
    line_up = '<M-k>',
  },

  -- Options which control moving behavior
  options = {
    -- Automatically reindent selection during linewise vertical move
    reindent_linewise = true,
  },
}

Similar plugins

• matze/vim-move
• booperlv/nvim-gomove