New Textobj: backwards-seeking textobjects

[rish987]

Textobj requested

I often find that the text object I want is located behind, rather than in front of, the current cursor position. I was wondering if it would be possible to enhance all of the textobjects that currently have forwards-seeking behavior to also have a backwards-seeking variant. We could perhaps reserve a special character such that, if it preceeds the mapping for any text object, instructs it to seek backwards rather than forwards (or perhaps capitalize one of the letters).

Sample Text

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Inner/Outer Difference

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Vimscript plugin already implementing the textobj

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Filetypes

all

Checklist

• The textobj would be useful to more users than just me. (You can use the API to create custom textobj.)
• There is no lua plugin already implementing the textobj in an adequate manner.
• I read the docs and checked that there is no such textobj already.

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[tuurep]

This bot is really bad

I'm also particularly interested in backwards variation for:

• restOfIndentation
• toNextClosingBracket
• toNextQuotationMark

Though I haven't looked at the code yet. Is this something that would require some big time refactoring?

[uwla]

I am particularly interested to restOfIndentation backwards.

One hard-coded solution to restOfIndentation is to use indentation text object together with a
temporary mark and jump to it:

{
    "I", -- change this to whatever
    'mx<cmd>lua require("various-textobjs").indentation("inner", "inner")<CR>`xv',
    desc = "Rest of indentation backwards",
    mode = { "o", "x" },
}

The above config is for lazy.nvim package manager.

It temporarily set the mark x to the current position, selects the inner
indentation, which jumps to the start of the indentation, jumps again to x
mark, and then switches back to visual-charwise mode (it seems indetantion text object
changes the visual selection to visual-line mode)

[uwla]

Update:

I was able to mimic restOfIndentation forward and backwards char-wise.

This is some of my lazy mappings:

{
    "<S-tab>",
    'v`>mxvii`xvo',
    desc = "Indentation backwards",
    mode = { "o"  },
    remap = true
},
{
    "<tab>",
    'v`<mxvii$o`xvo',
    desc = "Indentation forward",
    mode = { "o"  },
    remap = true
},
{
    "ii",
    '<cmd>lua require("various-textobjs").indentation("inner", "inner")<CR>',
    desc = "Indentation inner",
    mode = { "o" },
},

tab in visual mode selects to the end of the current indentation and
shift-tab backwards. I could get it to work on operator mode

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[tuurep]

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