@donaldball no, there’s not. But something like this is definitely doable. You file a feature request on GitHub.

Thanks, I’ll do so

evil lookup, displays,a bove the current line, a descriptipn of the current function

what is the means by which this is achieved? to insert lines into a window that are not part of the file ?

in emacs regexp, regexps tend to match at the START of the match ...; but I'd like a way to specify some palce in the middle of the match

is there a way to do that?

so these things are called look-around assertions

unfortunately, it's not clear if they're in mainline emacs (though patches certainly exist)