let jumping be match-aware ( gw + ma = magw)

[Dotrar]

Hey all, absolutely love Helix.

One of the issues I commonly have is that sometimes I want to "match around" items like classes, if-statement branches, loop blocks, etc. we have a few "match around " commands, but this doesn't cover every case for every language.

Rather than implement a command for every type of item, it could be an easy value to provide selectable targets which will complete the match motion.

I just found out about jump commands (gw) which is almost what I'm talking about, I'd love if we could do magw to select what object we want to match around/inside.

I came across nvim-treehopper which I used in nvim for great effect.

(PS: i know there's a mag but i don't know what the g does here, so I'm not fussed on what the keyboard shortcuts should be..)

[mweihs]

I want to "match around" items like classes, if-statement branches, loop blocks

Isn't the best way to do this selecting with A-o and then ma ?

I just found out about jump commands (gw) which is almost what I'm talking about, I'd love if we could do magw to select what object we want to match around/inside.

You can do it in 2 steps, first vgw to select, then ma to match around.

[Dotrar]

Thanks for the reply!

I didn't know about A-o so that's new to me. I've found that I can get what I want with:
vgw to make half a selection, then A-o to select around. (or just repeatedly press A-o until what I want is selected..)

so I could bind a key to get me the vgw point but I have to press A-o to "complete" the match-around, which is a little annoying, but workable. thanks!

then ma to match around

I'm not sure what ma does after a selection is made.. i was using it to make the selection (i might be using wrong terminology)

[mweihs]

I'm not sure what ma does after a selection is made.. i was using it to make the selection (i might be using wrong terminology)

No, that was my mistake, ma is not useful here.