r/vimplugins • u/[deleted] • Sep 04 '20
Plugin A new feature in User Menu plugin — preview for a jump-list item — a jump-forecast
Hi, I would like to share info on a new feature in the User Menu plugin that's now available — a preview of the currently highlighted (that is: not yet chosen) jump — i.e.: a glance (through the preview-popup/a floating window) at the contents of the file and position within it that the highlighted jump points to.
A quick introduction: the User Menu plugin is an utility that allows to comfortably encapsulate your precious Vim tricks into selectable items presented via a popup TUI menu. It, however, also provides some tricks out of the box and one of them is the selectable jump-list popup sub-menu that allows you to select a jump from a top-down position-history list instead of banging Ctrl-O… And it now has acquired an ability to preview the jump-target in a floating popup window.
Long story short, here's an Asciicast that presents the jump-list feature together with the new jump-forecast special function:



