mini.ai: creating a mapping for 'anybracket' which excludes the spaces like i( would

[tuurep]

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I'm experimenting with creating aliases for brackets in a way that a lowercase letter is normal and uppercase variant one that excludes the spaces, for example:

ic, iC for curly brackets {}, normal and whitespace-excluding variant.

But I'm not sure how to do this for:

ib, iB for anybrackets {}/[]/(), where the uppercase would behave like this.

Would be grateful for any tips :)

Also if there is a less wordy way to define these bracket alias keymaps:

vim.keymap.set({"x", "o"}, "ic", "i}", {remap=true})
vim.keymap.set({"x", "o"}, "iC", "i{", {remap=true})
vim.keymap.set({"x", "o"}, "ac", "a}", {remap=true})
vim.keymap.set({"x", "o"}, "aC", "a{", {remap=true})

vim.keymap.set({"x", "o"}, "ilc", "il}", {remap=true})
vim.keymap.set({"x", "o"}, "ilC", "il{", {remap=true})
vim.keymap.set({"x", "o"}, "alc", "al}", {remap=true})
vim.keymap.set({"x", "o"}, "alC", "al}", {remap=true})

vim.keymap.set({"x", "o"}, "inc", "in}", {remap=true})
vim.keymap.set({"x", "o"}, "inC", "in{", {remap=true})
vim.keymap.set({"x", "o"}, "anc", "an}", {remap=true})
vim.keymap.set({"x", "o"}, "anC", "an{", {remap=true})

(aC not useful, but there for consistency's sake)

[echasnovski]

I'd suggest doing that through config.custom_textobjects and not via custom mappings. This way it is defined once per texotjbect id, no need for separate 'a'/'i'/'al'/'il'/'an'/'in' mappings. Custom textobjects should follow specification, but looking at how built-in textobjects are implemented should get 95% there for this case.

If I correctly understood what you're trying to achieve, the following setup should be all you need:

require('mini.ai').setup({
  custom_textobjects = {
    ['c'] = { '%b()', '^.().*().$' },
    ['C'] = { '%b()', '^.%s*().-()%s*.$' },
    ['B'] = { { '%b()', '%b[]', '%b{}' }, '^.%s*().-()%s*.$' },
  },
})

[tuurep]

Yes, this is exactly what I'm looking for. Thank you very much.