ivyl / vim-bling

blink current search match

BLING

What it does?

This plugin blinks search result after jumping to it (think of n, N, * and #)

Documentation

View vimdoc online.

Installation

Bundles, Vundles and Pathogens.

You know the drill.

MacVim

There is known bug with redraw, which causes cursor to jump strangely.

Read more: issue #3.

vim-bling's Issues

Plugin bugs when Noice is installed

I tried to use Noice where it shown a bug everytime I started to save the file, after a longer investigation it was found that the cause of the issue was vim-bling plugin, by disabling it the bug doesn't happens anymore

The problem lies in the line

vim-bling/plugin/bling.vim

Line 101 in 5e59a06

cnoremap <silent> <expr> <enter> BlingExpressionHighlight()

The full details of what's happening are included on this thread: folke/noice.nvim#463

Temporary disable bling

Thanks for a great little plugin!

I have one issue though:
I have some mappings that jumps in the code using searches. These mappings are being slowed down as bling will highlight the search. I need to temporarily turn off bling and reenable it after the jump.

And here lies the problem.. I have to do this using count or time. This way I now need to specify it several places and if I change some setting, it's easy to forget to change all mappings.

bling_disable and bling_enable would let me do this without changing the configuration for bling.

Blinking does not happen when using a search offset

Hello,

If I use for example:

• /function/e => will set the cursor's position to the end of the matched pattern
• /function/s+2 => will set the cursor's position 2 characters away from the beginning of the matched pattern

There is no blinking.

Regards,
Yann

Using this plugin doesn't let n and friends automatically open folds

If you have a match in a fold, normally Vim automatically opens that fold when you press n to enter it. When using this plugin, it does not.

Matches due to ignore/smartcase won't blink.

If you have ignore/smartcase on, there will unfortunately be some disconnect between what gets matched with / and what that same pattern matches with matchadd. So, things that match only with matchadd won't blink.

Emulating ignorecase is easy (use \c). Emulating smartcase is quite a bit more annoying, unfortunately.

Errors when searching using /\v

It seems there's a bug when a match is found or there are no search string. That is using /\vsearchstring rather than /searchstring.

Error detected while processing function BlingHighight:
line   19:
E53: Unmatched %(
E475: Invalid argument: \%1l\%1c\%(\v\)\c
line   23:
E802: Invalid ID: -1 (must be greater than or equal to 1)
line   19:
E53: Unmatched %(
E475: Invalid argument: \%1l\%1c\%(\v\)\c
line   23:
E802: Invalid ID: -1 (must be greater than or equal to 1)

E117: Unknown function: bling:hlight

I get this error when I use :call bling#hlight()

No blinking on the first search

Hello,

By first search I mean doing:

/foo<cr>

foo should blink. If I hit n, it blinks though.

Regards,
Yann

Cursor moves when blinking

When I press n (or N), the cursor moves to the first column of the buffer (in the gutter, if it's visible, ie: line numbers or git gutter) and then when the blinking stops the cursor moves back to the first character of the next match.

The normal behavior would be that the cursor moves to the first character of the next match while the match is blinking.

Automatically disable Bling when running macros

The plugin is really great. The only thing I currently find lacking is a simple way to have Bling automatically disable itself when running macros...
If I run a macro multiple times, It's a lot longer to run if every times it finds a pattern (with N or n), it blinks.
A flag (say let g:BlingDisableOnMacro=1) would be great implementation for this!

<CR> Mapping Lost While Blinking

Reproduced By

1. Open NERDTree
2. Search for a word in NERDTree
3. Press enter while word is blinking

Expected: open file or expand folder
Actual: goes to next line