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Cinnamon Scroll 🍥

Smooth scrolling for ANY command 🤯. A highly customizable Neovim plugin written in Lua!

✨ Features

• Can add smooth cursor and window scroll animation to any normal mode movement, command, or Lua function
• Horizontal, vertical, and diagonal scrolling
• Adjusts scroll speed based on movement distance
• Non-blocking delays using luv
• Two scrolling modes:
  • cursor: animate cursor and window scrolling for any movement
  • window: animate window scrolling ONLY when the cursor moves out of view

📋 Requirements

• Neovim >= 0.8.0

🎥 Demo

https://github.com/declancm/cinnamon.nvim/assets/90937622/3a107151-a92f-47b9-be26-2afb949c9fe8

📦 Installation

Just install with your favorite package manager and run the setup function.

Lazy

{
  "declancm/cinnamon.nvim",
  version = "*", -- use latest release
  opts = {
    -- change default options here
  },
}

⚙️ Configuration

A settings table can be passed into the setup function for custom options.

Default Options

---@class CinnamonOptions
return {
    -- Disable the plugin
    disabled = false,

    keymaps = {
        -- Enable the provided 'basic' keymaps
        basic = false,
        -- Enable the provided 'extra' keymaps
        extra = false,
    },
    
    ---@class ScrollOptions
    options = {
        -- The scrolling mode
        -- `cursor`: animate cursor and window scrolling for any movement
        -- `window`: animate window scrolling ONLY when the cursor moves out of view
        mode = "cursor",

        -- Only animate scrolling if a count is provided
        count_only = false,

        -- Delay between each movement step (in ms)
        delay = 5,

        max_delta = {
            -- Maximum distance for line movements before scroll
            -- animation is skipped. Set to `false` to disable
            line = false,
            -- Maximum distance for column movements before scroll
            -- animation is skipped. Set to `false` to disable
            column = false,
            -- Maximum duration for a movement (in ms). Automatically scales the
            -- delay and step size
            time = 1000,
        },

        step_size = {
            -- Number of cursor/window lines moved per step
            vertical = 1,
            -- Number of cursor/window columns moved per step
            horizontal = 2,
        },

        -- Optional post-movement callback. Not called if the movement is interrupted
        callback = function() end,
    },
}

Example Configuration

require("cinnamon").setup {
    -- Enable all provided keymaps
    keymaps = {
        basic = true,
        extra = true,
    },
    -- Only scroll the window
    options = { mode = "window" },
}

⌨️ Keymaps

Basic Keymaps

Scroll animation for ...

Extra Keymaps

Scroll animation for ...

🔌 API

Description

require("cinnamon").scroll({command}, {options})

Executes the given command with cursor and window scroll animation.

• {command} (string|function) Can be any of the following:

  • Normal mode movement command

    require("cinnamon").scroll("<C-]>")
    

  • Command-line (Ex) command when prefixed with a semicolon

    require("cinnamon").scroll(":keepjumps normal! <C-]>")
    

  • A Lua function

    require("cinnamon").scroll(function()
        vim.lsp.buf.definition({ loclist = true })
    end)
    

• {options} (ScrollOptions?) Override the default scroll options. See the Default Options for more information.

  require("cinnamon").scroll("<C-]>", { mode = "window" })
  

Examples

local cinnamon = require("cinnamon")

cinnamon.setup()

-- Centered scrolling:
vim.keymap.set("n", "<C-U>", function() cinnamon.scroll("<C-U>zz") end)
vim.keymap.set("n", "<C-D>", function() cinnamon.scroll("<C-D>zz") end)

-- LSP:
vim.keymap.set("n", "gd", function() cinnamon.scroll(vim.lsp.buf.definition) end)
vim.keymap.set("n", "gD", function() cinnamon.scroll(vim.lsp.buf.declaration) end)

-- Flash.nvim integration:
local flash = require("flash")
local jump = require("flash.jump")

flash.setup({
  action = function(match, state)
    cinnamon.scroll(function()
      jump.jump(match, state)
      jump.on_jump(state)
    end)
  end,
})

📅 User Events

• CinnamonCmdPre - Triggered before the given command is executed
• CinnamonCmdPost - Triggered after the given command is executed
• CinnamonScrollPre - Triggered before the scroll animation
• CinnamonScrollPost - Triggered after the scroll animation

🚫 Disabling

• vim.b.cinnamon_disable (boolean) Disable scroll animation for the current buffer
• vim.g.cinnamon_disable (boolean) Disable scroll animation globally

Example Usage:

-- Disable scrolling for help buffers
vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd("FileType", {
    pattern = "help",
    callback = function() vim.b.cinnamon_disable = true end,
})