Blink-Bang-Word-Light

💎 Blink-Bang-Word-Light is a Neovim plugin that highlights the word under the cursor throughout the buffer. The plugin provides commands to enable, disable, and toggle the highlighting.

☀️ Features

• Highlights the word under the cursor throughout the buffer.
• Customizable highlight settings including foreground color, background color, and underline.
• Commands to enable, disable, and toggle highlighting.

📥 Installation

Using Lazy.nvim

return {
    'mei28/blink-bang-word-light.nvim',
    event = { 'VeryLazy' },
    config = function()
        require('blink-bang-word-light').setup({
            -- if you want to customize, see Usage!
        })
    end
}

🧰 Usage

require('blink-bang-word-light').setup({
  max_word_length = 100, -- if cursorword length > max_word_length then not highlight
  min_word_length = 2, -- if cursorword length < min_word_length then not highlight
  excluded = {
      filetypes = {
          "TelescopePrompt",
      },
      buftypes = {
          -- "nofile",
          -- "terminal",
      },
      patterns = { -- the pattern to match with the file path
          -- "%.png$",
          -- "%.jpg$",
          -- "%.jpeg$",
          -- "%.pdf$",
          -- "%.zip$",
          -- "%.tar$",
          -- "%.tar%.gz$",
          -- "%.tar%.xz$",
          -- "%.tar%.bz2$",
          -- "%.rar$",
          -- "%.7z$",
          -- "%.mp3$",
          -- "%.mp4$",
      },
  },
  highlight = {
    underline = true,
    guifg = '#ffcc00', -- Foreground color
    guibg = '#333333', -- Background color
  },
  enabled = true,
})

⚙️ Configuration

You can customize the plugin settings by calling the setup function in your init.vim or init.lua. Here is an example configuration:

require('blink-bang-word-light').setup({
  max_word_length = 100, -- if cursorword length > max_word_length then not highlight
  min_word_length = 2, -- if cursorword length < min_word_length then not highlight
  excluded = {
      filetypes = {
          "TelescopePrompt",
      },
      buftypes = {
          -- "nofile",
          -- "terminal",
      },
      patterns = { -- the pattern to match with the file path
          -- "%.png$",
          -- "%.jpg$",
          -- "%.jpeg$",
          -- "%.pdf$",
          -- "%.zip$",
          -- "%.tar$",
          -- "%.tar%.gz$",
          -- "%.tar%.xz$",
          -- "%.tar%.bz2$",
          -- "%.rar$",
          -- "%.7z$",
          -- "%.mp3$",
          -- "%.mp4$",
      },
  },
  highlight = {
    underline = true,
    guifg = '#ffcc00', -- Foreground color
    guibg = '#333333', -- Background color
  },
  enabled = true,
})

Default configuration

{
  max_word_length = 100,
  min_word_length = 2,
  excluded = {
    filetypes = {},
    buftypes = {
      "prompt",
      "terminal",
    },
    patterns = {},
  },
  highlight = {
    underline = true,
    guifg = nil,
    guibg = nil,
  },
  enabled = true,
}

📖 Commands

The following commands are available to control the highlighting:

• :BlinkBangWordLight enable or :BBWL enable: Enable the highlighting.
• :BlinkBangWordLight disable or :BBWL disable: Disable the highlighting.
• :BlinkBangWordLight toggle or :BBWL toggle: Toggle the highlighting.

License

This plugin is licensed under the MIT License.

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