bionic-like reading in Neovim.

Get through that pesky wall of text a little easier!

• Custom highlighting amounts and style
• Saccade interval and line reset
• Update during insert mode
• Default file types

Install using your preferred package manager.

Example with packer.nvim

use {
    'JellyApple102/easyread.nvim'
}

If you are okay with the defaults, just calling setup is enough.

-- Default configuration
require('easyread').setup{
    hlValues = {
        ['1'] = 1,
        ['2'] = 1,
        ['3'] = 2,
        ['4'] = 2,
        ['fallback'] = 0.4
    },
    hlgroupOptions = { link = 'Bold' },
    fileTypes = { 'text' },
    saccadeInterval = 0,
    saccadeReset = false,
    updateWhileInsert = true
}

• hlValues

This table determines how many characters of a word to highlight based on word length. Lengths represented by string indexes are explicitly defined.

Any other word lengths use the fallback value, between 0 and 1, representing how much of a word to highlight. 0.3 highlights 30% of the word, 0.4 highlights 40%, etc.

• hlgroupOptions

This table is passed to nvim_set_hl() as the {val} parameter. See :h nvim_set_hl() for more information.

• fileTypes

Table of file types to have easyread automatically highlight. Can be set to none with:

require('easyread').setup{
    fileTypes = {}
}

• saccadeInterval

How many words go unhighlighted between highlighted words.

• saccadeReset

Whether to reset the saccadeInterval on each line.

• updateWhileInsert

Whether to update highlighting while in insert mode.

easyread provides several user commands:

• :EasyreadToggle switches the current buffer between highlighted and not.
• :EasyreadSaccadeInterval {num} sets the saccade interval to the given number.
• :EasyreadSaccadeReset toggles the saccade line reset behaiour.
• :EasyreadUpdateWhileInsert toggles updating highlights during insert mode.

Theme used in demo gif is kanagawa

Check out my other plugin flote.nvim