Any way to make mini.clue work like nvzone/showkeys and show all the pressed keys

[231tr0n]

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Hi echasnovski! Is there any way to make mini.clue show up for every key press and show the keys similar to how nvzone/showkeys does it. Or is it possible to achieve this with the combination of mini.notify and mini.keymap.

[echasnovski]

Both 'mini.clue' and 'mini.keymap' are meant to work with mappings. This is far from "showing any key press".

Neovim itself has a pretty good (since Neovim 0.11) built-in way of acting on every keypress: :h vim.on_key(). It can be used without any plugin to show typed keys with something like this:

local do_show_keys = false
local ns_id = vim.api.nvim_create_namespace('show-keys')

_G.toggle_show_keys = function()
  do_show_keys = not do_show_keys
  if not do_show_keys then return vim.on_key(nil, ns_id) end
  vim.on_key(function(_, typed)
    if typed ~= '' then vim.notify(vim.fn.keytrans(typed)) end
  end, ns_id)
end

Executing :lua _G.toggle_show_keys() starts to show with vim.notify() key presses if not showing, stops otherwise. It is not without its quirks, but works pretty well. Together with 'vim.notify = require('mini.notify').make_notify()' it shows a "trail" of keys also (as notifications will be shown for some time until removed).

But I'd strongly suggest using a higher level key casting tool, as it will be more robust. I prefer screenkey.

[231tr0n]

Thanks! Will check this out.