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                                  · Neovim motions on speed! ·

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Hop is an EasyMotion-like plugin allowing you to jump anywhere in a document with as few keystrokes as possible. It does so by annotating text in your buffer with hints, short string sequences for which each character represents a key to type to jump to the annotated text. Most of the time, those sequences’ lengths will be between 1 to 3 characters, making every jump target in your document reachable in a few keystrokes.

• Motivation
• Features
• Getting started
  • Installation
    • Important note about versioning
    • Using vim-plug
    • Using packer
    • Nightly users
• Usage
• Keybindings
• Chat

Motivation

Hop is a complete from-scratch rewrite of EasyMotion, a famous plugin to enhance the native motions of Vim. Even though EasyMotion is usable in Neovim, it suffers from a few drawbacks making it not comfortable to use with Neovim version >0.5 – at least at the time of writing these lines:

• EasyMotion uses an old trick to annotate jump targets by saving the contents of the buffer, replacing it with the highlighted annotations and then restoring the initial buffer after jump. This trick is dangerous as it will change the contents of your buffer. A UI plugin should never do anything to existing buffers’ contents.
• Because the contents of buffers will temporarily change, other parts of the editor and/or plugins relying on buffer change events will react and will go mad. An example is the internal LSP client implementation of Neovim >0.5 or its treesitter native implementation. For LSP, it means that the connected LSP server will receive a buffer with the jump target annotations… not ideal.

Hop is a modern take implementing this concept for the latest versions of Neovim.

Features

• Go to any word in the current buffer (:HopWord).
• Go to any character in the current buffer (:HopChar1).
• Go to any bigrams in the current buffer (:HopChar2).
• Make an arbitrary search akin to / and go to any occurrences (:HopPattern).
• Go to any line and any line start (:HopLine, :HopLineStart).
• Go to anywhere (:HopAnywhere).
• Use Hop cross windows with multi-windows support (:Hop*MW).
• Use it with commands like v, d, c, y to visually select/delete/change/yank up to your new cursor position.
• Support a wide variety of user configuration options, among the possibility to alter the behavior of commands to hint only before or after the cursor (:Hop*BC, :Hop*AC), for the current line (:Hop*CurrentLine), change the dictionary keys to use for the labels, jump on sole occurrence, etc.
• Extensible: provide your own jump targets and create Hop extensions!

Getting started

This section will guide you through the list of steps you must take to be able to get started with Hop.

This plugin was written against Neovim 0.5, which is currently a nightly version. This plugin will not work:

• With a version of Neovim before 0.5.
• On Vim. No support for Vim is planned.

Installation

Whatever solution / package manager you are using, you need to ensure that the setup Lua function is called at some point, otherwise the plugin will not work. If your package manager doesn’t support automatic calling of this function, you can call it manually after your plugin is installed:

require'hop'.setup()

To get a default experience. Feel free to customize later the setup invocation (:h hop.setup). If you do, then you will probably want to ensure the configuration is okay by running :checkhealth. Various checks will be performed by Hop to ensure everything is all good.

Important note about versioning

This plugin implements SemVer via git branches and tags. Versions are prefixed with a v, and only patch versions are git tags. Major and minor versions are git branches. You are very strongly advised to use a major version dependency to be sure your config will not break when Hop gets updated.

Using vim-plug

Plug 'phaazon/hop.nvim'

Using packer

use {
  'phaazon/hop.nvim',
  branch = 'v2', -- optional but strongly recommended
  config = function()
    -- you can configure Hop the way you like here; see :h hop-config
    require'hop'.setup { keys = 'etovxqpdygfblzhckisuran' }
  end
}

Nightly users

Hop supports nightly releases of Neovim. However, keep in mind that if you are on a nightly version, you must be on the last one. If you are not, then you are exposed to compatibility issues / breakage.

Usage

See the wiki.

Keybindings

Hop doesn’t set any keybindings; you will have to define them by yourself.

If you want to create a key binding from within Lua:

-- place this in one of your configuration file(s)
local hop = require('hop')
local directions = require('hop.hint').HintDirection
vim.keymap.set('', 'f', function()
  hop.hint_char1({ direction = directions.AFTER_CURSOR, current_line_only = true })
end, {remap=true})
vim.keymap.set('', 'F', function()
  hop.hint_char1({ direction = directions.BEFORE_CURSOR, current_line_only = true })
end, {remap=true})
vim.keymap.set('', 't', function()
  hop.hint_char1({ direction = directions.AFTER_CURSOR, current_line_only = true, hint_offset = -1 })
end, {remap=true})
vim.keymap.set('', 'T', function()
  hop.hint_char1({ direction = directions.BEFORE_CURSOR, current_line_only = true, hint_offset = 1 })
end, {remap=true})

Chat

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