Commentalist

This plugin aims to trivialize the making of bombastic ascii comments.

Currently supporting the following engines:

• boxes
• cowsay
• figlet

Dependencies

• Comment.nvim
• telescope
• boxes (optional)
• cowsay (optional)
• figlet (optional)

Installation

Using packer.nvim

use {
    'olidacombe/commentalist.nvim',
    requires = {
        { 'nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim' },
        { 'numToStr/Comment.nvim' },
    }
}

Setup

Call the setup funtion somewhere in your configs

require("commentalist").setup()

-- optionally add a keymap
vim.keymap.set({ "n", "v" }, "<leader>mm", ":Commentalist<CR>")

Usage

Use the command :Commentalist to bring up a telescope previewer allowing you to browse the output you can expect.

Or if you already know which {renderer}/{font} you want to apply to a range, call with the font as an argument, :Commentalist {renderer}/{font}.

Custom Renderers

To define your own renderers, you can pass them to setup() under the renderers key.

require("commentalist").setup({
    renderers = {
        my_custom = {
            -- a renderer with no fonts
            render = function(lines, _)
                table.insert(lines, 1, "[com]")
                table.insert(lines, "[ment]")
                return lines
            end,
        },
        my_other = {
            -- a renderer which takes "fonts"
            -- you must specify which fonts to offer
            render = function(lines, font)
                table.insert(lines, 1, "[com:" .. font "]"
                table.insert(lines, "[ment:" .. font "]"
                return lines
            end,
            fonts = function(register)
                register("a font")
                register({ "some", "other", "fonts" })
            end,
            -- alt: pass a static table of fonts
            -- fonts = {"greasy", "oily"},
        }
    }
})

Your render function takes as arguments:

1. lines - a table of strings, each containing no newlines.
2. font (optional) - a string indicating which font the user has chosen.

And it must return either:

• a table of strings, each containing no newlines
• a started plenary.job which will return such a table of strings

Disable default renderer

If a default renderer's binaries are detected, the renderer will be made available automatically. If you don't want that, disable the renderer during setup, e.g.

require("commentalist").setup({
    renderers = {
		-- you have cowsay installed but don't want to use it with this plugin
		cowsay = false
	}
})

checkhealth

The healthcheck can be invoked with :checkhealth commentalist. Any default renderers detected which are not disabled through setup will result in all fonts becoming available via telescope.

## Checking for required plugins
  - OK: plenary installed.
  - OK: telescope installed.

## Checking for default renderers
  - OK: `figlet` found
  - OK: `figlist` found
  - OK: `boxes` found
  - OK: `cowsay` found