Combine home row letters as target labels

[petobens]

If I use g:sneak#target_labels default value things work fine (as you can see in the first image below). However, if I set

let g:sneak#target_labels = "asdfghjkl"

then there are missing on-screen target locations (as seen in the second image). It would be nice if sneak could combine whatever is set in g:sneak#target_labels (in my case the home row) to show all the on-screen locations i.e use labels such as ds or gl to jump to targets.

[justinmk]

Press <tab> to label the next N matches.

Sneak doesn't show multi-letter labels because:

• makes adjacent labels difficult to discern
• adds cognitive overhead

The idea is to optimize for the common case. Since you specify 2 characters in advance, in general (the common case) you should not have too many matches on-screen.

The adjacent label problem can be solved with a bunch of code, but I don't think the benefits are worth it (EasyMotion tried/tries many approaches to this). I'm more interested in solving the real problem, which is text with a high degree of uniformity (eg, "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa").

Some ideas are discussed in #88, plus I have another approach I have been testing.

Thanks for your interest!

[petobens]

Thanks for the thorough explanation. Excellent plugin! :)