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Moving through variable segments

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
neovim, vim
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by reviewing the existing variable-segment behavior and the move-n-function and move-p-function entry points mentioned in the issue, along with the plugin documentation. Define how forward and backward variable-segment movement should work, including keybindings and dictionary configuration, then verify that the behavior and setup are documented and usable.

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Description

It would be nice to move forwards and back by variable segments . I just got into vim and vimscript, I looked at the code for a while and read the documentation but couldn't really figure it out. I saw that it would require setting move-n-function and move-p-function but I wasn't sure how to set up a keybinding and how to set up the dictionaries like that.

Dominant language
Vim Script
Stars
160
Forks
15
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

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