block-highlight.nvim

A small plugin for neovim to highlight within or around a block. Based on tree-sitter and lua.

It provides a function that creates a visual selection inside or around objects.

With the cursor on a string, the string will be highlighted.

Otherwise the next surrounding brackets will be selected.

brackets: ["(" ")" "[" "]" "{" "}"]

Installation

Tree-sitter is required

Packer:

use 'ccbiozhaw/block-highlight.nvim'

Setup:

for your keymaps.lua

vim.keymap.set("n", "<leader>vib", "<cmd>lua require('block-highlight').select('inside')<CR>", {silent = true})
vim.keymap.set("n", "<leader>vab", "<cmd>lua require('block-highlight').select('around')<CR>", {silent = true})