interlaced.nvim

Text re-positioning for bilingual sentence alignment.

Requirements

• Neovim >= 0.9.0

Installation

• Using lazy.nvim

{
  "tanloong/interlaced.nvim",
  config = function() require("interlaced").setup {} end,
  ft = "text",
}

Configuration

https://github.com/tanloong/interlaced.nvim/blob/20d0ff5cbd40361b50a9e8f02938f29b9326d025/lua/interlaced/config.lua#L1-L66

Commands

:ItEnableKeybindings applies keybindings specified in the mappings field of the table passed to require("interlaced").setup(). Original keymaps are backed up.

:ItDisableKeybindings cancels mappings keybindings and restores backed up keymaps.

:ItSplitEnglishSentences identifies English sentence endings and insert a newline after each of them. Works linewise on the range when provided, the whole buffer if not.

:ItSplitChineseSentences ibidem but identifies Chinese sentence endings.

:ItInterlaceWithL1 {filepath} mixes non-empty lines from current buffer with those from filepath into empty-line-separated pairs of lines. In each pair, lines from filepath are above those from current buffer. mappings keybindings are enabled if they have not been previously.

:ItInterlaceWithL2 {filepath} ibidem but lines from filepath are below those from current buffer.

:[range]ItInterlace [num] mixes non-empty lines from current buffer into num empty-line-separated chunks. Works on the range when provided, the whole buffer if not. If num is not provided, lang_num field of the config table will be used.

:[range]ItDeinterlace [num] Works on the range when provided, the whole buffer if not. If num is not provided, lang_num field of the config table will be used.

:ItMatchAdd opens a matches window to edit a pattern to be highlighted. The window has 3 columns: match id, highlight group, and pattern. On pressing <Enter> in insert/normal mode, matchadd() will be called with the 3 values (see :h matchadd()). If match id is left as _, a random one will be chosen by matchadd() . If highlight group is left as _, a random one will be chosen from the plugin's predefined ones. In normal mode, D deletes match of current line, U undoes the deletion, R switches a random color for the match under the cursor.

:ItMatchAddVisual ibidem but populates the pattern column with the visually selected text.

:ItListMatches opens the matches window. You can edit highlight groups or pattern there and press <Enter> to apply the change.

:ItClearMatches removes all matches. This action cannot be undone.

:ItMatchToggle turns on/off highlighting for the matches.

:ItListHighlights shows the predefined highlight groups of this plugin.

:ItSwapWithAbove swaps current line with the counterpart line from the chunk above.

:ItSwapWithBelow ibidem but from the chunk below.

:ItPushUp [lineno] appends the line at lineno up to the end of its counterpart at the chunk above. Subsequent counterpart lines are moved up correspondingly. Works on the current line if lineno is not provided.

:ItPushUpPair [lineno] ibidem but works every line in the chunk where lineno is at.

:ItPushUpLeftPart [lineno [colno]] appends the text leftside of column colno at line lineno up to its counterpart in the chunk above, leaving line lineno with the text rightside of column colno. Works on the current line if lineno is not provided. Uses cursor position if colno is not provided.

:ItPullBelow [lineno] appends the counterpart at the chunk below to line lineno. Subsequent counterpart lines are moved up correspondingly. Works on the current line if lineno is not provided.

:ItPullBelowPair [lineno] ibidem but works every line in the chunk where lineno is at.

:ItPushDownRightPart [lineno [colno]] moves the text rightside of column colno at line lineno down to its counterpart at the chunk below, leaving lineno lineno with the text leftside of column colno. Subsequent counterpart lines are moved down correspondingly. Works on the current line if lineno is not provided. Uses cursor position if colno is not provided.

:ItPushDown [lineno] ibidem but moves down the whole line lineno, leaving it as empty.

:ItLeaveAlone [lineno] pushes down all lines (except the cursor line) in the chunk where lineno is at, puts a - as placeholder at each, and moves cursor down to the next chunk. Works on the cursor chunk if lineno is not provided.

:ItNextUnaligned finds the next chunk has different kinds of highlighted matches across its lines and puts cursor there.

:ItPrevUnaligned ibidem but finds the previous chunk.

:ItSetLangNum {num} changes lang_num, i.e., how many lines should be in each chunk. This affects re-positioning actions: ItPushUp(Pair|LeftPart)?, ItPullBelow(Pair)?, ItPushDown(RightPart)?, ItSwapWith(Above|Below), and ItLeaveAlone. When called without argument or with a single ? it shows the current value.

:ItSetSeparator {num} {str} changes sentence separator to str for the numth language, i.e., what should be inserted between on ItPushUp(Pair|LeftPart)? and ItPullBelow(Pair)?. When called without argument or with a single ? it shows current values.

:[count]ItNavigateDown moves cursor down by lang_num + 1 lines.

:[count]ItNavigateUp moves cursor up by lang_num + 1 lines.

:[count]ItUndo undoes the last re-positioning action. The undo list remembers at most 100 actions and forgets oldest ones thereafter. It costs too much RAM to remember changes of an interlaced buffer, because re-position affects every counterpart line from the cursor below, and the builtin undo history stores all of that. One ItPushUp at the beginning of an interlaced buffer with 190k lines increases memory use by 100M. To avoid memory creep, the plugin has an isolated operation history for re-positioning operations (ItPushUp(Pair), ItPullBelow(Pair), ItPushDown(RightPart), and ItLeaveAlone). It disables the builtin undo history recording before a re-positioning operation is called, appends the operation to its operation history, and enables the undo history after. Note that the builtin undo history is cleared once an re-positioning operation is called. Use :ItUndo to undo a re-positioning operation. Use the traditional u to undo normal text changes like inserting, pasting, etc.

:[count]ItRedo undoes the last ItUnDo.

:ItToggleChunkNr shows/hides chunk number at intervals.

:ItDump [filepath] saves workspace to filepath: cursor position, matches, language separator, and lang_num. Undo and redo lists are not saved. Uses ./.interlaced.json when called without argument.

:ItLoad [filepath] loads workspace from filepath. Uses ./.interlaced.json when called without argument.