Announcing ‘mini.input’

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Get user input with fully customizable key and view handling

Author

Evgeni Chasnovski

Published

June 4, 2026

Hello, Neovim users!

Let’s welcome the ‘mini.nvim’ module number 45: ‘mini.input’. Its main purpose is to make asking for user input both more functional and visually pleasant.

It’s been a while since the latest new module (almost six months), so I am glad to finally make the release. This one was a long time in the works for various reasons:

Somewhat important to polish the design (I’ll try to upstream important part of it, stay tuned).
Fighting mental battles of how much functionality to provide here. For better or worse, I ended up including quite a lot.
MINI maintenance (even on top of the valuable help from the MINI team) takes priority.
Working on upstream vim.pack.

On the bright side, ‘mini.nvim’ crossed a big milestone: it now has more than 5000 test cases! Not tested features are fragile features :)

Features of ‘mini.input’:

Get user input with fully customizable key and view handling.
Built-in configurable views as floating window, statusline/tabline/winbar, virtual line/text.
Implementation is non-blocking but waits to return the input. It also works in any mode without requiring mode change. See :h MiniInput-lifecycle.
vim.ui.input() implementation. To adjust, use MiniInput.ui_input() or save-restore vim.ui.input manually after calling MiniInput.setup().

For more information see these parts of help:

It is also worth noting that ‘mini.input’ has special integrations across ‘mini.nvim’ modules that require synchronously getting user input. Like several surroundings of ‘mini.surround’ (function, tag), interactive glob pattern input in :Pick grep_live, and more.

Please, check it out and tell me what you think! Leave a comment in a dedicated beta-testing issue.

The 0.18 release is planned somewhat soon, so I’d be grateful if you’d take a look and help with beta-testing!

Thanks for reading! Let’s hope that the next module will not take this long.