Announcing ‘mini.animate’

Animate common Neovim actions (cursor movement, scroll, resize, window open/close)

Originally posted on Reddit

Hello, Neovim users!

After a lot of struggle, I am happy to announce mini.animate - new module of mini.nvim which adds animation to some common Neovim actions. Following dual distribution model, it can also be installed using separate GitHub repository.

This module aims to enhance visual user experience with as little setup and config intrusion as possible. Granted, not everyone likes animations in their editor, and that is OK. I myself didn’t use this kind of plugins, but recently found that animation helps in various subtle ways to more precisely target my focus.

Main features:

• Works out of the box with a single require('mini.animate').setup(). No extra mappings or commands needed.
• Animate cursor movement inside same buffer by showing customizable path.
• Animate scrolling with a series of subscrolls (“smooth scrolling”).
• Animate window resize by gradually changing sizes of all windows.
• Animate window open/close with visually updating floating window.
• Timings for all actions can be customized independently.
• Action animations can be enabled/disabled independently.
• All animations are asynchronous/non-blocking and trigger a targeted event which can be used to perform actions after animation is done.
• MiniAnimate.animate() function which can be used to perform own animations.

For more information, see help file.

Please, check it out and tell me what you think! Either here in comments or in dedicated beta-testing issue.

Thanks!