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https://github.com/echasnovski/mini.animate

Neovim Lua plugin to animate common Neovim actions. Part of 'mini.nvim' library.
https://github.com/echasnovski/mini.animate

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Neovim Lua plugin to animate common Neovim actions. Part of 'mini.nvim' library.

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### Animate common Neovim actions

See more details in [Features](#features) and [help file](doc/mini-animate.txt).

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⦿ This is a part of [mini.nvim](https://github.com/echasnovski/mini.nvim) library. Please use [this link](https://github.com/echasnovski/mini.nvim/blob/main/readmes/mini-animate.md) if you want to mention this module.

⦿ All contributions (issues, pull requests, discussions, etc.) are done inside of 'mini.nvim'.

⦿ See the repository page to learn about common design principles and configuration recipes.

---

If you want to help this project grow but don't know where to start, check out [contributing guides of 'mini.nvim'](https://github.com/echasnovski/mini.nvim/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) or leave a Github star for 'mini.nvim' project and/or any its standalone Git repositories.

## Demo

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/24854248/215829092-5aba4e8d-94a5-43da-8ef0-243bf0708f76.mp4

## Features

- Works out of the box with a single `require('mini.animate').setup()`. No extra mappings or commands needed.
- Animate **cursor movement** inside same buffer by showing customizable path.
- Animate **scrolling** with a series of subscrolls ("smooth scrolling").
- Animate **window resize** by gradually changing sizes of all windows.
- Animate **window open/close** with visually updating floating window.
- Timings for all actions can be customized independently.
- Action animations can be enabled/disabled independently.
- All animations are asynchronous/non-blocking and trigger a targeted event which can be used to perform actions after animation is done.
- `MiniAnimate.animate()` function which can be used to perform own animations.

Notes:
- Although all animations work in all supported versions of Neovim, scroll and resize animations have best experience with Neovim>=0.9.
- Scroll and resize animations actually change Neovim state to achieve their effects and are asynchronous. This can cause following issues:
- If you have remapped any movement operation to center after it is done (like with `nzvzz` or `zz`), you need to change those mappings. Either remove them or update to use `MiniAnimate.execute_after()` (see `:h MiniAnimate.config.scroll`)
- Using mouse wheel to scroll can appear slower or can have visual jitter. This usually happens due to high number of wheel turns per second: each turn is taking over previous one to start new animation. To mitigate this, you can either modify 'mousescroll' option (set vertical scroll to 1 and use high turn speed or set to high value and use one turn at a time) or `config.scroll` to fine tune when/how scroll animation is done.

## Installation

This plugin can be installed as part of 'mini.nvim' library (**recommended**) or as a standalone Git repository.

There are two branches to install from:

- `main` (default, **recommended**) will have latest development version of plugin. All changes since last stable release should be perceived as being in beta testing phase (meaning they already passed alpha-testing and are moderately settled).
- `stable` will be updated only upon releases with code tested during public beta-testing phase in `main` branch.

Here are code snippets for some common installation methods (use only one):

With mini.deps



Github repo
Branch Code snippet




'mini.nvim' library Main Follow recommended 'mini.deps' installation


Stable


Standalone plugin Main add('echasnovski/mini.animate')


Stable add({ source = 'echasnovski/mini.animate', checkout = 'stable' })

With folke/lazy.nvim



Github repo
Branch Code snippet




'mini.nvim' library
Main { 'echasnovski/mini.nvim', version = false },


Stable { 'echasnovski/mini.nvim', version = '*' },


Standalone plugin
Main { 'echasnovski/mini.animate', version = false },


Stable { 'echasnovski/mini.animate', version = '*' },

With junegunn/vim-plug



Github repo
Branch Code snippet




'mini.nvim' library
Main Plug 'echasnovski/mini.nvim'


Stable Plug 'echasnovski/mini.nvim', { 'branch': 'stable' }


Standalone plugin Main Plug 'echasnovski/mini.animate'


Stable Plug 'echasnovski/mini.animate', { 'branch': 'stable' }


**Important**: don't forget to call `require('mini.animate').setup()` to enable its functionality.

**Note**: if you are on Windows, there might be problems with too long file paths (like `error: unable to create file : Filename too long`). Try doing one of the following:
- Enable corresponding git global config value: `git config --system core.longpaths true`. Then try to reinstall.
- Install plugin in other place with shorter path.

## Default config

```lua
-- No need to copy this inside `setup()`. Will be used automatically.
{
-- Cursor path
cursor = {
-- Whether to enable this animation
enable = true,

-- Timing of animation (how steps will progress in time)
timing = --,

-- Path generator for visualized cursor movement
path = --,
},

-- Vertical scroll
scroll = {
-- Whether to enable this animation
enable = true,

-- Timing of animation (how steps will progress in time)
timing = --,

-- Subscroll generator based on total scroll
subscroll = --,
},

-- Window resize
resize = {
-- Whether to enable this animation
enable = true,

-- Timing of animation (how steps will progress in time)
timing = --,

-- Subresize generator for all steps of resize animations
subresize = --,
},

-- Window open
open = {
-- Whether to enable this animation
enable = true,

-- Timing of animation (how steps will progress in time)
timing = --,

-- Floating window config generator visualizing specific window
winconfig = --,

-- 'winblend' (window transparency) generator for floating window
winblend = --,
},

-- Window close
close = {
-- Whether to enable this animation
enable = true,

-- Timing of animation (how steps will progress in time)
timing = --,

-- Floating window config generator visualizing specific window
winconfig = --,

-- 'winblend' (window transparency) generator for floating window
winblend = --,
},
}
```

## Similar plugins

- [Neovide](https://neovide.dev/) (Neovim GUI, not a plugin)
- [edluffy/specs.nvim](https://github.com/edluffy/specs.nvim)
- [karb94/neoscroll.nvim](https://github.com/karb94/neoscroll.nvim)
- [anuvyklack/windows.nvim](https://github.com/anuvyklack/windows.nvim)