Vim: easymotion markers don't line up; could we add a setting to make them look more like vim?

[QuinnFreedman]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

By default, the easymotion markers look pretty funky (see screenshot below).

They don't line up with the letters in the document (in the x or y direction) and the marker letters overhang the marker background.

Also, half of them are italic for some reason. Maybe that's a feature but I'm not really sure what that means.

What I want is for them to look the way they do in vim:

Describe alternatives you've considered

I know that you can style the markers to some extent with:

vim.easymotionMarkerBackgroundColor,
vim.easymotionMarkerForegroundColorOneChar,
vim.easymotionMarkerForegroundColorTwoChar,
vim.easymotionMarkerWidthPerChar,
vim.easymotionMarkerHeight,
vim.easymotionMarkerFontFamily,
vim.easymotionMarkerFontSize,
vim.easymotionMarkerFontWeight,
vim.easymotionMarkerYOffset.

However, no matter what I do, I can't get it to look like they are normal characters in the document because of the offsets of the text within the markers and the x-offset of the marker relative to the letters in the actual document.

Describe the solution you'd like

What I think would be really helpful is either:

• An option to provide arbitrary CSS for the tags so users can style them however they want (e.g. padding, margins, line-height)
• Or, an option to display them in-line with the text so it just looks like the actual text of the document is changing when you go into jump mode, the way it is in Vim

[jdubwelch]

I was having the same problem, but I found a workaround. Mine had to do with my line-height setting. "editor.lineHeight": 30,. Updating the "vim.easymotionMarkerHeight": 30, to match made it better for me. You're using custom fonts and things and might be different, but this may help a little.