[mini.indentscope] text object in visual selection

[pkazmier]

As I learn more and more vim, I've recently discovered that I'm able to enter visual selection mode, enter a text object such as ap to select a paragraph, and then press ap again to expand the selection to include another paragraph, and I can repeat that as many times as I want. What do others do if they want to expand their initial selection to the next outer indent scope?

For example, with this block of code, if I press Vai while my cursor is on the "if" on line 118, then lines 116 to 119 are selected as expected. But if I want to expand that selection, I, perhaps naively, expected that a second ai would do so. I do know, however, that while still in visual selection mode, I could type 2ai to select the 2nd level scope, which achieves the same, but curious why another bare ai would not do so as well?

╭────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ init.lua                                                                       │
│────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────│
│ 115 local build_codesnap = function(args)                                      │
│ 116   vim.system({ "make", "-C", args.path }, { text = true }, function(r)     │
│ 117     if r.stdout ~= "" then vim.notify(r.stdout, vim.log.levels.INFO) end   │
│ 118     if r.stderr ~= "" then vim.notify(r.stderr, vim.log.levels.ERROR) end  │
│ 119   end)                                                                     │
│ 120 end                                                                        │
╰────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

[echasnovski]

For example, with this block of code, if I press Vai while my cursor is on the "if" on line 118, then lines 116 to 119 are selected as expected. But if I want to expand that selection, I, perhaps naively, expected that a second ai would do so. I do know, however, that while still in visual selection mode, I could type 2ai to select the 2nd level scope, which achieves the same, but curious why another bare ai would not do so as well?

Hmm... It does for me with plain require('mini.indentscope').setup():

indentscope-expand.mp4

[pkazmier]

Hmm .. good to know. Let me go find the offender! Thanks!

[pkazmier]

Ah, it's because I had try_as_border = true. When I set it back to false, it works as I had expected. Not sure why I enabled that in the first place, but I've nuked it for now as expanding the scope is much more important to me. Thanks for confirming it was supposed to work.