No vertical compression

[fontanf]

Hi,

Is it possible to have an option to disable vertical compression in the minimap? That would mean that the minimap would show 4 times more lines that the ones on the screen instead of the whole file.

[ZNielsen]

That sounds doable, but there are definitely some assumptions that would need to be turned into settings. I think code-minimap would be able to output the proper text by changing the vertical compression argument. Then we might need an autocmd to take care of automatically scrolling the minimal window to keep the section of the file we are in on screen.

This isn't something I have a personal interest in adding, so I'll leave it to you. I'm more than happy to provide some help if you need it though.

[fontanf]

Thanks for the quick answer and for the indications. Indeed, if I set vscale to 1 here, I can get the minimap without vertical compression, but it's not well synchronized with the buffer. I'm not familiar with vim plugin writing, so I would be thankful if you have some additional leads to fix this. Otherwise, I'll continue investigating on my end

[ZNielsen]

Probably the best way to do this would be to hook into the existing autocmd functions that handle when the viewport into the buffer changes (window enter, window scroll, etc. ex: source_win_scroll()) and calculate what percent down the buffer the window is, then center the minimap buffer/window at that percentage. Actually if the scaling is 1:1 you may not even need to calculate percentage; just syncing up which line number of the buffer is at the top of the window might do the trick (divide by 4, or whatever the compression in the minimap ends up being).

Some vim functions that look useful:

• line('w0') - first line visible in current window
• setpos() - put the cursor somewhere

vim's built in :help will get you the details for those functions (e.g. :help setpos)