🍃 yanky.nvim

This plugin still under development, use at your own risk

The aim of yanky.nvim is to improve yank and put functionalities for Neovim.

French slogan:

"Vas-y Yanky, c'est bon !" - Yanky Vincent

Or in English:

"Yanky-ki-yay, motherf*cker" - John McYanky

✨ Features

• Yank-ring
• Yank history picker
• Highlight put and yanked text
• Perserve cursor position on yank

⚡️ Requirements

Requires neovim > 0.7.0.

Usage

📦 Installation

Install the plugin with your preferred package manager:

packer

-- Lua
use({
  "gbprod/yanky.nvim",
  config = function()
    require("yanky").setup({
      -- your configuration comes here
      -- or leave it empty to use the default settings
      -- refer to the configuration section below
    })
  end
})

vim-plug

" Vim Script
Plug 'gbprod/yanky.nvim'
lua << EOF
  require("yanky").setup({
    -- your configuration comes here
    -- or leave it empty to use the default settings
    -- refer to the configuration section below
  })
EOF

⚙️ Configuration

Yanky comes with the following defaults:

{
  ring = {
    history_length = 10,
    storage = "shada",
    sync_with_numbered_registers = true,
  },
  picker = {
    select = {
      action = nil, -- nil to use default put action
    },
    telescope = {
      mappings = nil, -- nil to use default mappings
    },
  },
  system_clipboard = {
    sync_with_ring = true,
  },
  highlight = {
    on_put = true,
    on_yank = true,
    timer = 500,
  },
  preserve_cursor_position = {
    enabled = true,
  },
}

⌨️ Mappings

This plugin contains no default mappings and will have no effect until you add your own maps to it. You should at least set those keymaps:

vim.keymap.set("n", "p", "<Plug>(YankyPutAfter)", {})
vim.keymap.set("n", "P", "<Plug>(YankyPutBefore)", {})
vim.keymap.set("x", "p", "<Plug>(YankyPutAfter)", {})
vim.keymap.set("x", "P", "<Plug>(YankyPutBefore)", {})
vim.keymap.set("n", "gp", "<Plug>(YankyGPutAfter)", {})
vim.keymap.set("n", "gP", "<Plug>(YankyGPutBefore)", {})
vim.keymap.set("x", "gp", "<Plug>(YankyGPutAfter)", {})
vim.keymap.set("x", "gP", "<Plug>(YankyGPutBefore)", {})

Some features requires specific mappings, refer to feature documentation section.

🖇️ Yank-ring

Yank-ring allows cycling throught yank history when putting text (like the Emacs "kill-ring" feature). Yanky automatically maintain a history of yanks that you can choose between when pasting.

⌨️ Mappings

vim.keymap.set("n", "<c-n>", "<Plug>(YankyCycleForward)", {})
vim.keymap.set("n", "<c-p>", "<Plug>(YankyCycleBackward)", {})

With these mappings, after performing a paste, you can cycle through the history by hitting <c-n> and <c-p>. Any modifications done after pasting will cancel the possibility to cycle.

Note that the swap operations above will only affect the current paste and the history will be unchanged.

⚙️ Configuration

require("yanky").setup({
  ring = {
    history_length = 10,
    storage = "shada",
    sync_with_numbered_registers = true,
  },
  system_clipboard = {
    sync_with_ring = true,
  },
})

ring.history_length

Default : 10

Define the number of yanked items that will be saved and used for ring.

ring.storage

Default : shada

Available : shada or memory

Define the storage mode for ring values.

Using shada, this will save pesistantly using Neovim ShaDa feature. This means that history will be persisted between each session of Neovim.

You can also use this feature to sync the yank history across multiple running instances of Neovim by updating shada file. If you execute :wshada in the first instance and then :rshada in the second instance, the second instance will be synced with the yank history in the first instance.

Using memory, each Neovim instance will have his own history and il will be lost between sessions.

ring.sync_with_numbered_registers

Default : true

History can also be synchronized with numbered registers. Every time the yank history changes the numbered registers 1 - 9 will be updated to sync with the first 9 entries in the yank history. See here for an explanation of why we would want do do this.

system_clipboard.sync_with_ring

Default: true

Yanky can automatically adds to ring history yanks that occurs outside of Neovim. This works regardless to your &clipboard setting.

This means, if &clipboard is set to unnamed and/or unnamedplus, if you yank something outside of Neovim, you can put it immediatly using p and it will be added to your yank ring.

If &clipboard is empty, if you yank something outside of Neovim, this will be the first value you'll have when cycling through the ring. Basicly, you can do p and then <c-p> to paste yanked text.

Commands

You can clear yank history using YankyClearHistory command.

📜 Yank history picker

This allows you to select an entry in your recorded yank history using default vim.ui.select neovim prompt (you can use stevearc/dressing.nvim to customize this) or the awesome telescope.nvim.

It uses the same history as yank ring, so, if you want to increase history size, just use ring.history_length option.

⚙️ Configuration

To use vim.ui.select picker, just call YankyRingHistory command.

To use Telescope extension, you must first register this extention and then you can call Telescope yank_history :

require("telescope").load_extension("yank_history")

If you want dynamic title with register type in Telescope preview window, you should set dynamic_preview_title Telescope options to true.

Default configuration :

require("yanky").setup({
  picker = {
    select = {
      action = nil, -- nil to use default put action
    },
    telescope = {
      mappings = nil, -- nil to use default mappings
    },
  },
})

picker.select.acion

Default : nil

This define the action that should be done when selecting an item in the vim.ui.select prompt. If you let this option to nil, this will use the default action : put selected item after cursor.

Available actions:

require("yanky.picker").actions.put("p") -- put after cursor
require("yanky.picker").actions.put("P") -- put before cursor
require("yanky.picker").actions.put("gp") -- put after cursor and leave the cursor after
require("yanky.picker").actions.put("gP") -- put before cursor and leave the cursor after
require("yanky.picker").actions.delete() -- delete entry from yank history
require("yanky.picker").actions.set_register(regname) -- fill register with selected value

picker.telescope.mappings

Default : nil

This define the mappings available in Telescope. If you let this option to nil, this will use the default mappings :

local utils = require("yanky.utils")
local mapping = require("yanky.telescope.mapping")

require("yanky").setup({
  picker = {
    telescope = {
      mappings = {
        default = mapping.put("p"),
        i = {
          ["<c-p>"] = mapping.put("p"),
          ["<c-k>"] = mapping.put("P"),
          ["<c-x>"] = mapping.delete(),
          ["<c-r>"] = mapping.set_register(utils.get_default_register()),
        },
        n = {
          p = mapping.put("p"),
          P = mapping.put("P"),
          d = mapping.delete(),
          r = mapping.set_register(utils.get_default_register())
        },
      }
    }
  }
})

Available actions:

require("yanky.telescope.mapping").put("p") -- put after cursor
require("yanky.telescope.mapping").put("P") -- put before cursor
require("yanky.telescope.mapping").put("gp") -- put after cursor and leave the cursor after
require("yanky.telescope.mapping").put("gP") -- put before cursor and leave the cursor after
require("yanky.telescope.mapping").delete() -- delete entry from yank history
require("yanky.telescope.mapping").set_register(regname) -- fill register {regname} with selected value

NB: More actions and mappings will come.

💡 Highlight put and yanked text

This will give you a visual feedback on put and yank text by highlighting this.

Configuration

require("yanky").setup({
  highlight = {
    on_put = true,
    on_yank = true,
    timer = 500,
  },
})

You can override YankyPut highlight to change colors.

highlight.on_put

Default : true

Define if highlight put text feature is enabled.

highlight.on_yank

Default : true

Define if highlight yanked text feature is enabled.

ring.timeout

Default : 500

Define the duration of highlight.

⤵️ Preserve cursor position on yank

By default in Neovim, when yanking text, cursor moves to the start of the yanked text. Could be annoying especially when yanking a large text object such as a paragraph or a large text object.

With this feature, yank will function exactly the same as previously with the one difference being that the cursor position will not change after performing a yank.

⌨️ Mappings

vim.keymap.set("n", "y", "<Plug>(YankyYank)", {})
vim.keymap.set("x", "y", "<Plug>(YankyYank)", {})

⚙️ Configuration

require("yanky").setup({
  preserve_cursor_position = {
    enabled = true,
  },
})

preserve_cursor_position.enable

Default : true

Define if cursor position should be preserved on yank. This works only if mappings has been defined.

🎨 Colors

Description	Group	Default
Highlight color for put text	YankyPut	link to Search
Highlight color for yanked text	YankyYanked	link to Search

🤝 Integrations

To enable gbprod/substitute.nvim swap when performing a substitution, you can add this to your setup:

require("substitute").setup({
  on_substitute = function(event)
    require("yanky").init_ring("p", event.register, event.count, event.vmode:match("[vV]"))
  end,
})

🎉 Credits

This plugin is mostly a lua version of svermeulen/vim-yoink awesome plugin.

Other inspiration :

• bfredl/nvim-miniyank
• maxbrunsfeld/vim-yankstack
• svermeulen/vim-easyclip
• bkoropoff/yankee.vim
• svban/YankAssassin.vim

Thanks to m00qek lua plugin template.