Zoom-in Like a Boss, How? Layout-Preserving Zoomer weighing in 🪶

NeoZoom.lua

DEMO

Intro.

Are you still using <C-W>o to maximize a window split and DESTROY THE OTHER ONES under the same tab 😵 ? You should try NeoZoom.lua!

You can think of NeoZoom.lua as enhanced :tab split , with these differences:

1. :tab split won't restore your cursor position after you close the tab, but NeoZoom.lua will do.
2. :tab split creates a new tab on any circumstance, while NeoZoom.lua closes those ones with a single window.

So NeoZoom.lua is more user friendly, you only need one key to zoom-in/out. Since it is so lightweight (<100 lines including README.md), so that's it :)

Some more details:

1. It zoom-in on any tab with more than one windows, and zoom-out on any tab with only one window. The last window in the last tab.
2. NeoZoom.lua is very lightweight. It's almost impossible to have any conflict with those favorite plugins of you already installed.
3. Floating window on cursor-hover (e.g. showing LSP Diagnostics message on cursor-hover) increases the number of windows, while this is taken into account.
4. If you're using kyazdani42/nvim-tree.lua:
   1. You can open it after zoom-in.
   2. You can have it open before zoom-in. It will also be restored on zoom-out.

Features

• Cursor pos. is restored, after zoom-in
• Very Light-weight (23 lines, including the comics in comment.)
• No dependencies, but you had better know nothing about tabs.
• (For advance users) Floating window on cursor-hover (e.g. to show LSP line Diagnostics message) indeed increases window count, this case is covered by NeoZoom.lua :)

installation

Packer.nvim

use {
  'nyngwang/NeoZoom.lua'
}

Usage

Change <CR> to whatever shortcut you like~

Recommended, I will keep this one working in the future

-- this is to prevent the case you're also using `<cr>` for the toggle, and you use native quickfix list, so the `<cr>` will be intercepted :(
vim.api.nvim_set_keymap('n', '<CR>', "&ft != 'qf' ? '<cmd>NeoZoomToggle<CR>' : '<CR>'", { noremap=true, silent=true, nowait=true })

Simple one, If you never use quickfix list, pick this one

vim.api.nvim_set_keymap('n', '<CR>', '<cmd>NeoZoomToggle<CR>', { noremap=true, silent=true, nowait=true })

TODO list

• a better README.md
  • add a DEMO
  • add packer.nvim installation guide
  • customizable shortcut
• config setup tutorial, must be simple and useful
  • have to use setup function instead of the ugly _G. something
  • add a exclusion list for those strange buf/filetype