autoime.nvim is one pluin to free you hand. It can auto-switch bwteen default ime and the previous one. This is useful for some non-latin languages like Chinese. Sometimes we need write non-latin charactors in insert mode and want ime auto-changes to latin while entering the normal mode. This is the solution used im-select.

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Notice

This plugin is only test on MacOS. And it is optimised for Mac for my hobby.

In theory, it applys to any platform which im-select supports(MaxOS, Windows). If you use Linux, use ime-select.nvim.

If you have any problems, please start an issue.

Requirements

1. im-select
2. plenary.nvim (optinal, only use async funtions)

Install

Choose your favourate plugin manager.

The fowllowing configuration is used lazy:

{
    "OliverChao/autoime.nvim",
    event = "InsertEnter",
    opts = {
      im_select_path = "<the ime-select path>",
      autoime_default = "com.apple.keylayout.ABC", -- choose the default ime
    },
}

If im-select is execuable directly, you needn't set im_select_path.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Related work

1. smartim
2. vim-barbaric
3. im-select.nvim