It would be better if vim's virtual text can overlay the actual text. about vim

[chrisbra]

so what does overlay do?

[Yggdroot]

https://github.com/easymotion/vim-easymotion
https://github.com/hadronized/hop.nvim

vim-easymotion is a famous plugin used in vim, and hop.nvim is an alternative in neovim.

As the motivation of hop.vim says below:

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.

The drawback of EasyMotion in Vim is that virtual text cannot be overlaid on top of the actual text. However, Neovim does support this feature.

https://github.com/lukas-reineke/indent-blankline.nvim also uses this feature.

[chrisbra]

so, can you show an example/screenshot what exactly this does?

[Yggdroot]