📡 minimap.vim

Blazing fast minimap for vim, powered by 🛰 code-minimap written in Rust.

✨ Features

• Blazing-fast (see benchmark).
• Dynamic scaling.
• Real-time highlight.
• It can be used to scroll buffer (in vim's way!).

📥 Installation

Requirement

• 🛰code-minimap is required. The plugin receives rendered minimap from it.
• vim8.2+, or neovim 0.5.0+.

Use your favorite plugin manager, vim-plug for example:

Plug 'wfxr/minimap.vim'

If you need to install the plugin manually, you can refer to this issue: #2.

You can use cargo to install 'code-minimap' simultaneously (Only recommended for rust users):

Plug 'wfxr/minimap.vim', {'do': ':!cargo install --locked code-minimap'}

📑 Example configuration

let g:minimap_width = 10
let g:minimap_auto_start = 1
let g:minimap_auto_start_win_enter = 1

🛠 Commands

Flag	Description
Minimap	Show minimap window
MinimapClose	Close minimap window
MinimapToggle	Toggle minimap window
MinimapRefresh	Force refresh minimap window
MinimapUpdateHighlight	Force update minimap highlight
MinimapRescan	Force recalculation of minimap scaling ratio

⚙ Options

Flag	Default	Description
g:minimap_auto_start	0	if set, minimap will show at startup
g:minimap_auto_start_win_enter	0	if set with g:minimap_auto_start, minimap shows on WinEnter
g:minimap_width	10	the width of the minimap window in characters
g:minimap_window_width_override_for_scaling	2147483647	the width cap for scaling the minimap (see minimap.txt help file)
g:minimap_base_highlight	Normal	the base color group for minimap
g:minimap_block_filetypes	['fugitive', 'nerdtree', 'tagbar', 'fzf' ]	disable minimap for specific file types
g:minimap_block_buftypes	['nofile', 'nowrite', 'quickfix', 'terminal', 'prompt']	disable minimap for specific buffer types
g:minimap_close_filetypes	['startify', 'netrw', 'vim-plug']	close minimap for specific file types
g:minimap_close_buftypes	[]	close minimap for specific buffer types
g:minimap_exec_warning	1	if set, enables code-minimap not found warning message at startup
g:minimap_left	0	if set, minimap window will append left
g:minimap_highlight_range	1	if set, minimap will highlight range of visible lines
g:minimap_highlight_search	0	if set, minimap will highlight searched patterns
g:minimap_background_processing	0	if set, minimap will use a background job to get the longest line (requires gnu-wc on MacOS)
g:minimap_git_colors	0	if set, minimap will highlight range of changes as reported by git
g:minimap_enable_highlight_colorgroup	1	if set, minimap will create an autocommand to set highlights on color scheme changes.

⚙ Color Options

Minimap.vim sets its own color groups to give a reasonable default.

Flag	Default	Description
g:minimap_search_color_priority	120	the priority for the search highlight colors
g:minimap_cursor_color_priority	110	the priority for the cursor highlight colors
g:minimap_cursor_color	minimapCursor	the color group for current position
g:minimap_range_color	minimapRange	the color group for window range (if highlight_range is enabled)
g:minimap_search_color	Search	the color group for highlighted search patterns in the minimap
g:minimap_diffadd_color	minimapDiffAdded	the color group for added lines (if git_colors is enabled)
g:minimap_diffremove_color	minimapDiffRemoved	the color group for removed lines (if git_colors is enabled)
g:minimap_diff_color	minimapDiffLine	the color group for modified lines (if git_colors is enabled)
g:minimap_cursor_diffadd_color	minimapCursorDiffAdded	the color group for the cursor over added lines
g:minimap_cursor_diffremove_color	minimapCursorDiffRemoved	the color group for the cursor over removed lines
g:minimap_cursor_diff_color	minimapCursorDiffLine	the color group for the cursor over modified lines
g:minimap_range_diffadd_color	minimapRangeDiffAdded	the color group for the window range encompassing added lines
g:minimap_range_diffremove_color	minimapRangeDiffRemoved	the color group for the window range encompassing removed lines
g:minimap_range_diff_color	minimapRangeDiffLine	the color group for the window range encompassing modified lines

You can create your own colorgroup by specifying the foreground and background colors for the cterm or gui:

:highlight minimapCursor ctermbg=59  ctermfg=228 guibg=#5F5F5F guifg=#FFFF87

For more information, see :help highlight

Note: some colorschemes will clear all previous colors, so you may have to add an autocmd to ensure your custom colorgroups are added back:

autocmd ColorScheme *
        \ highlight minimapCursor            ctermbg=59  ctermfg=228 guibg=#5F5F5F guifg=#FFFF87 |
        \ highlight minimapRange             ctermbg=242 ctermfg=228 guibg=#4F4F4F guifg=#FFFF87

If you prefer to disable this behavior, set g:minimap_enable_highlight_colorgroup to 0 / false. This is useful if you have a color scheme that sets the minimap highlight groups explicitly.

💬 F.A.Q

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Highlight and scroll are not working properly.

Check the vim version you are using. minimap.vim requires vim 8.2+ or neovim 0.5.0+.

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Integrated with diagnostics or git status plugins?

Git integration is supported. See g:minimap_git_colors and #72.

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Minimap window is too wide for me, how to use it as a simple scrollbar?

You can reduce the width of the minimap window:

let g:minimap_width = 2

Or use scrollbar.nvim instead if what you want is a pure scrollbar indicator.

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How do the color priorities work?

A higher priority color group will override a lower priority color group. By default, search > cursor/window position > git colors

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I don't like the default highlight group, how to change it?

Choose any one of the highlight groups (or define a new one) and just set it for minimap like this:

hi MinimapCurrentLine ctermfg=Green guifg=#50FA7B guibg=#32302f
let g:minimap_cursor_color = 'MinimapCurrentLine'

All existing highlight groups can be displayed by :hi.

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Minimap shows up as a jumble of characters?

Check that your encoding is set to utf-8 and not latin1 (for Vim users). Also, ensure that you're using a Unicode-compatible font that has Braille characters in it.

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What is g:minimap_highlight_range and how do you use it?

You can have the minimap highlight all the visible lines in your current window by setting g:minimap_highlight_range. If you use Neovim, and your version is recent enough (after November 7, 2020), you can set this option to update the highlight when the window is scrolled.

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I'm using g:minimap_highlight_search and the highlighted searches don't go away until I :nohlsearch and save!

It is recommended that you create a mapping to run :nohlsearch and clear the minimap all in one action. For example:

nnoremap <silent> `` :nohlsearch<CR>:call minimap#vim#ClearColorSearch()<CR>

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I'm using g:minimap_background_processing on MacOS and the minimap isn't working!

The version of wc that ships with MacOS does not have support for the -L flag. To use background processing on MacOS, install gnu-wc. Example via homebrew:

brew install coreutils

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📋 Running Unit Tests

• Install Testify.
• From the top level directory (minimap.vim/) vim +TestifySuite for a yay/nay from your shell.
• For a more detailed run, open vim at the top level and run :TestifySuite. README.md works, but an empty buffer at the top level works too.
• To hone in on one test file, open that file (located in the t/ directory) and run :TestifyFile.
  • (As a note, the t/ directory is named such as a requirement from Testify. :TestifySuite runs all the tests in the t/ directory)

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📦 Related Projects

• code-minimap: A high performance code minimap render.
• scrollbar.nvim: A pure scrollbar indicator for neovim (nightly).
• vim-minimap: A minimap plugin written in python.

🌼 Maintainers

ZNielsen	wfxr	rabirabirara

📃 License

MIT (c) Wenxuan Zhang