EasyMotion symbols not displayed inside Dirvish

[adambiggs]

In Dirvish buffers, EasyMotion symbols don't show up:

It should look something like this:

[justinmk]

Could be a "conceal" conflict, assuming you're on a recent version of Vim and easymotion. What happens when you use easymotion in a help buffer?

[adambiggs]

Seems to work fine in help buffers:

[justinmk]

It looks like you're using an easymotion invocation to label the start of each line? The first part of each line in a dirvish buffer is hidden by conceal. Try :set conceallevel=0, then what gets labeled?

I'm not even sure if Vim has a way to search non-concealed text, so fixing this may require a change to Vim.

[adambiggs]

The first part of each line in a dirvish buffer is hidden by conceal.

Ah that makes sense.

:set conceallevel=0 fixed the issue... but also makes dirvish look pretty ugly. I guess there's not much I can do in this case.

[adambiggs]

I take it back! let g:dirvish_relative_paths = 1 fixed the issue since there's nothing to conceal anymore. 😄

[adambiggs]

Sorry, have to take it back again... The above fix works in the project root directory, but as soon as i traverse into a subdirectory the issue comes back. 😢

[justinmk]

I am not aware of any Vim feature that allows a plugin to "skip" concealed (or otherwise non-displayed) characters. This is needed for plugins like easymotion and vim-sneak.

[adambiggs]

Would it be possible to add a non-concealed whitespace character in front of each line?

[justinmk]

Not sure what you mean. Whitespace won't help easymotion label anything.

One potential approach would be to provide an option that forces CWD via :lcd, which would make g:dirvish_relative_paths do what you wanted. This would also potentially help with resolving #19. It could be disorienting for some users though.

[desjardinsm]

It's kind of a hacky workaround, but you could maybe do something with (even temporarily) setting g:EasyMotion_startofline = 0 and moving the cursor $T/

[adambiggs]

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction @desjardinsm!

Everything seems to be working great after remapping easymotion with $T/:

let g:EasyMotion_startofline = 0

autocmd FileType dirvish
  \ map <buffer> <Leader>j $T/<Plug>(easymotion-j) |
  \ map <buffer> <Leader>k $T/<Plug>(easymotion-k)

[justinmk]

This works OK in vim-sneak since justinmk/vim-sneak@c2cbcf7 .

It should work in EasyMotion also. If it doesn't, file the bug with EasyMotion.