Vim: Support `s` mapping for EasyMotion to any surrounding word

[fourcolors]

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FEATURE REQUEST (choose one):

Environment:

• VSCode Version: 1.12.2
• VsCodeVim Version: .7.1
• OS: MacOS
  Request:

I would REALLY like to map my s key to search forward AND backwards. I should be able to jump to any word and LINE BREAKS (please start including \n like normal EasyMotion does) with two-three characters.

I am currently using easymotion with VIM and this is a huge deal for me and a lot of people I know.

[Chillee]

I'm thinking that Easymotion might be another good target for neovim integration. I'd rather not reimplement the entirety of EasyMotion again... I've opened up an issue here to ask about it: https://github.com/easymotion/vim-easymotion/issues/331

[fourcolors]

@Chillee right now you can't seem to get Neovim to do the easymotion thing, can you? Unless I'm mistaken.

[Chillee]

@fourcolors Correct. EasyMotion does a bunch of hacks that make it difficult to integrate. @MaxfieldWalker has been on a tear implementing new EasyMotion features, so you might want to check some of the new features he's implemented out and see if they cover some of your use cases.

[maxfie1d]

@fourcolors You can now map a single character to a easymotion action in the latest version of the extension with configuration like below.

    "vim.otherModesKeyBindingsNonRecursive": [
        {
            "before": [
                "s"
            ],
            "after": [
                "<leader>",
                "<leader>",
                "2",
                "s"
            ]
        }
    ]

[fourcolors]

@MaxfieldWalker Is it possible to make s do a search for the entire file I'm working in, basically adding a label for every word both ways? This is how I have it set up in VIM.

Basically, I just type s and it will auto search and label each word in the file, no need to search.

Also, search doesn't seem to search the whole file?

[fourcolors]

basically i'm looking for this mapping nmap s <Plug>(easymotion-bd-w)

[maxfie1d]

@fourcolors Unfortunately, bidirectional word motion is not supported so far, but it is easy to implement this, so I will work it on 👍

Basically search is done over the entire file, but the length of characters used for label name are 28, so 784(=28x28) labels shown at most.

[berknam]

@fourcolors Is this still an issue?

basically i'm looking for this mapping nmap s <Plug>(easymotion-bd-w)

This can already be done with <leader><leader><leader>bdw and you can map s to this.