vim-indent-object

This plugin provides text objects targeting indent levels, which is mainly useful for working with whitespace-significant languages like Python. It also allows targeting single delimiting lines above and below the indent level, which is useful for languages with block end statements. It's a fork of http://github.com/michaeljsmith/vim-indent-object. The original was forked and rewritten to

• hopefully make the code clearer,
• add the blockwise objects that select text without indent that is common to all the selected lines,
• add mapping repeating last visual selection,
• add mappings expanding one end of selection and keeping the other the same,
• add mappings selecting a range and its closing delimiter line (a line following the selection that has smaller indent than the selection),
• handle mismatched opening and closing delimiters better,
• move from hard-coded mappings to <Plug> ones,
• use on-demand loading via vim's autoload feature,
• move from vmap and vnoremap to xmap and xnoremap,
• and back all of this up with tests using Vader framework.

Demo

Install

You know how to do it.

Usage

This plugin defines no mappings by default. You need to define them yourself. Though most people will probably be happy with just the most basic ones:

xmap ii <Plug>(indent-object_linewise-none)
omap ii <Plug>(indent-object_blockwise-none)

The mapping above selects all lines with the same or greater indent level. It works in both visual mode (try typing vii in normal mode) and operator-pending mode (try typing dii in normal mode).

To make it possible to expand the selection outward, you need to add the following mapping as well:

xmap <C-o> <Plug>(indent-object_repeat)

See the vim help documentation file for many more mappings.

Tests

You need to have this plugin and Vader installed. To run tests in an isolated environment run:

tests/run.sh

You can also run them from inside Vim by issuing command :Vader tests/*, but the results can be tainted by your configuration, and the state of the editor.

Credits

vim-indent-object was originally written by Michael Smith msmith@msmith.id.au. While the rewrite is nearly total, it was much easier to iterate on something that already worked.