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I wanted lightspeed-like features in Vim (without having to install Neovim).
I installed vim-sneak and followed the directions to enable "label-mode":
let g:sneak#label = 1
But when invoking sneak, labels don't show up and I still have to use ; and , to move between matches.
Why isn't vim-sneak's label-mode working, even though I enabled it according to the directions?
I figured out the answer.
In the sneak documentation it says:
g:sneak#label = 0
0: Disable |sneak-label-mode|.
1: Enable |sneak-label-mode| if the Vim |+conceal| feature is available.
I'm on macOS and was using Apple's default Vim version. Apple's default Vim isn't complied with the +conceal feature. I used vim --version to confirm this.
Guided by that SO thread, I installed vim from homebrew:
brew install vim
After a restart of the shell, vim --version now showed the +conceal feature.
And sneak's label-mode works!
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