Vrapper in Eclipse Theia?

Paul Carew — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 22:51:59 -0000

I've been using Vrapper in Eclipse for 10+ years and ** love it**.
I have a project starting that is necessitating using Eclipse Theia (it's a TI project and they base their IDE platform on Theia).

Any plans or ability to build Vrapper for Theia?

Highlight While Yank

Wed, 21 May 2025 22:27:03 -0000

How do I briefly highlight the text that is being yanked?

Highlight matching braces problem

Longin Kandinsky — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 11:40:54 -0000

Highlighting matching brackets can be activated in vrapper mode if you use "End". Cursor moves for a moment on EOLN and back on last character and matching bracket is highlighted.
Can it be used for solution somehow?

Multi-cursors plugin

Nelson Teixeira — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 12:58:55 -0000

Any plans to include multi-cursors plugin in Vrapper ?

Re-map to allow count before dot and after cgn command

Nelson Teixeira — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 20:47:14 -0000

Well... the substitution in same line is not really an issue to me. I'll keep the first version then.
If you take a look in the question I mentioned in the post above you'll see I tried the macro version first. But it's a lot more keystrokes. I'd prefer the remap version.

But taking the oportunity, I would like to ask if you have any plans to include multi-cursors plugin in Vrapper.

Re-map to allow count before dot and after cgn command

albertdev — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 22:11:48 -0000

Ah, I'm afraid that remap will not function due to at least two missing features:

Vrapper does not support expressions like 'string'.'string', never mind functions like repeat(). Parsing or executing them is thus nowhere implemented.
Neither is there any support for <expr> remaps or binding remap parameters like v:count1.

I don't expect those features to arrive any time soon.

Now, I believe it might be doable to implement the "count repeat" operator in Vrapper itself, or at least figure out something close to that. Another option would be to check if you couldn't do something with macros (the @ operator does interpret the count value as a repetition counter), but that would change the way you work quite a bit...

Re-map to allow count before dot and after cgn command

albertdev — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 20:41:10 -0000

Recently I learned the very useful cgn command that allows you to change a
searched word and use dot to repeat the change to make something similar to
Sublime's multi-cursors using vim's ways. The flow is this:

Substitute foo by bar in:

something
whatever.foo
blaba.foo
then(foo
function foo

/foo cgn bar ESC ...

result:

something
whatever.bar
blaba.bar
then(bar
function bar

This works in Vrapper also. Yet if I have say 20 words to change I found a
bit annoying to press dot 20 times. if I use a count before dot it doesn't
work. It changes only the ocurrence that is in the count position. I don't
mean it doesn't work in Vrapper. It doesn't work even in real VIM. So this
lead me to search a bit and initially I found the following remap:

:nnoremap <leader>. :normal .<cr></cr></leader>

This works in VIM and in Vrapper. I can do: /foo cgn bar ESC 3. and it
correctly changes the 4 occurrences. But not if I have a match in the same
line like:

something
whatever.foo otherever.foo
blaba.foo
then(foo
function foo

then it changes the first ocurrence in the line but not the second one.
So I posted in vi.stackexchange.com a question about this. This one:
https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/26081/how-can-i-repeat-the-cgn-sequence/26158?noredirect=1#comment46286_26158
And got a better remap that works with all matches even if they are in the
same line:

:nno <expr> <leader>. '<esc>' . repeat('.', v:count1)</esc></leader></expr>

This worked fine in VIM, but not in Vrapper unfortunately. Can you tell me
why and if I have any option to make this remap in Vrapper ? I use your
plugin in my daily work and this remap would be very useful to me.

Matchpairs support?

k marx — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 04:07:39 -0000

Hi Kevin - This is a beautiful thing. (My brain actually typo'd on the need for showmatch. Sorry about the confusion there) All I really needed was matchpairs. Supper cool and IOU dinner. Thanks so much for this and also the speedy turn-around. It actually gives one hope...

Matchpairs support?

Kevin — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 01:40:42 -0000

I just realized that you said you would use matchpairs with showmatch. I only added support for matchpairs, vrapper still doesn't suppoort showmatch and honestly, I'm not even sure where I would begin with that feature. So adding support for matchpairs probably doesn't help you at all... sorry.

Matchpairs support?

Kevin — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 01:35:35 -0000

So I started looking into this feature request... and then I just kept going. I got it implemented. As far as I can tell, it works exactly like in Vim. You can set matchpairs to a list with =, you can append to the list with +=, and remove from the list with -=.

I've created a new build and put it on the unstable update site. Please give it a try and let me know if it works for you. Just add the unstable update site (http://vrapper.sourceforge.net/update-site/unstable) to your eclipse and then run Check For Updates and it should find 0.75.20200603. Thanks!

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Matchpairs support?

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