-- Extra functionality for displaying Vim help. local M = {} --- Apply current colorscheme to lists of default highlight groups --- --- Note: {patterns} is assumed to be sorted by occurrence in the file. --- @param patterns {start:string,stop:string,match:string}[] function M.highlight_groups(patterns) local ns = vim.api.nvim_create_namespace('vimhelp') vim.api.nvim_buf_clear_namespace(0, ns, 0, -1) local save_cursor = vim.fn.getcurpos() for _, pat in pairs(patterns) do local start_lnum = vim.fn.search(pat.start, 'c') local end_lnum = vim.fn.search(pat.stop) if start_lnum == 0 or end_lnum == 0 then break end for lnum = start_lnum, end_lnum do local word = vim.api.nvim_buf_get_lines(0, lnum - 1, lnum, true)[1]:match(pat.match) if vim.fn.hlexists(word) ~= 0 then vim.api.nvim_buf_set_extmark(0, ns, lnum - 1, 0, { end_col = #word, hl_group = word }) end end end vim.fn.setpos('.', save_cursor) end --- Show a table of contents for the help buffer in a loclist function M.show_toc() local bufnr = vim.api.nvim_get_current_buf() local parser = assert(vim.treesitter.get_parser(bufnr, 'vimdoc', { error = false })) local query = vim.treesitter.query.parse( parser:lang(), [[ (h1 (heading) @h1) (h2 (heading) @h2) (h3 (heading) @h3) (column_heading (heading) @h4) ]] ) local root = parser:parse()[1]:root() local headings = {} for id, node, _, _ in query:iter_captures(root, bufnr) do local text = vim.treesitter.get_node_text(node, bufnr) local capture = query.captures[id] local row, col = node:start() -- only column_headings at col 1 are headings, otherwise it's code examples local is_code = (capture == 'h4' and col > 0) -- ignore tabular material local is_table = (capture == 'h4' and (text:find('\t') or text:find(' '))) -- ignore tag-only headings local is_tag = node:child_count() == 1 and node:child(0):type() == 'tag' if not (is_code or is_table or is_tag) then table.insert(headings, { bufnr = bufnr, lnum = row + 1, text = (capture == 'h3' or capture == 'h4') and '  ' .. text or text, }) end end vim.fn.setloclist(0, headings, ' ') vim.fn.setloclist(0, {}, 'a', { title = 'Help TOC' }) vim.cmd.lopen() end return M