traces.vim

Overview

This plugin highlights patterns and ranges for Ex commands in Command-line mode.

It also provides live preview for the following Ex commands:

:substitute
:smagic
:snomagic

this plugin is not compatible with inccommand, please turn it off if you want to use this plugin

Note: some of the features provided by this plugin are already present in Vim/Neovim.

	traces.vim	Vim	Neovim
`:substitute` preview	✓		✓
pattern preview for `:substitute`	✓	✓^[1]	✓
pattern preview for `:global`, `:vglobal`, `:sort`	✓	✓^[1]	✓^[2]
pattern preview for `:vimgrep`		✓^[1]	✓^[2]
off-screen results window for `:substitute`	✓		✓
off-screen results window for `:global`, `:vglobal`, `:sort`	✓
range preview	✓

[1] added by patch v8.1.0271
[2] available in Neovim 0.5.0

git clone https://github.com/markonm/traces.vim ~/.vim/pack/plugins/start/traces.vim

Run the :helptags command to generate the doc/tags file.

:helptags ~/.vim/pack/plugins/start/traces.vim/doc

git clone https://github.com/markonm/traces.vim %HOMEPATH%/vimfiles/pack/plugins/start/traces.vim

Run the :helptags command to generate the doc/tags file.

:helptags ~/vimfiles/pack/plugins/start/traces.vim/doc