Announcing ‘mini.hipatterns’

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Highlight patterns in text

Author

Evgeni Chasnovski

Published

May 25, 2023

Hello, Neovim users!

I am excited to announce the release of mini.hipatterns - new module of mini.nvim to highlight patterns in text. It can also be installed using separate GitHub repository.

This type of module did not have a high priority in my TODO list as I was pretty happy to use both folke/todo-comments.nvim and norcalli/nvim-colorizer.lua. But having just written mini.colors and mini.hues I thought it would be fun to make a future 0.9.0 release mostly about colors. Besides, it will replace in my config two plugins with one module, which I always enjoy.

I am also extra proud to note that this is a module number 30 of ‘mini.nvim’. I didn’t even imagine when I first started writing functioning Lua modules (around two years ago) that it will go this far. Yet here we are. I really hope more will come (it is definitely planned). Huge thanks to everyone using my work and spreading the word. It means a world to me during these tough times!

Here are the features of ‘mini.hipatterns’:

Highlight text with configurable patterns and highlight groups (can be string or callable).
Highlighting is updated asynchronously with configurable debounce delay.

For more information, see help file. See this part for examples of common use cases.

Please, check it out and tell me what you think! You can leave your suggestions either here in comments or in dedicated beta-testing issue.

Thanks!