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General

Vim is a powerful text editor. Keystrokes can be chained together to combine actions, movements and selections into coolness. Folk using Vim 20 years still don't know it all. See also Emacs (and take care of your wrists (and posture)).

todo; big refactor to rearrange commands into motion, action, etc.

See also Documents

Quick

Articles




Images

  • Shortcut layout - a sample of movement/selection, layed out in their direction

Video


  • YouTube: 7 Habits For Effective Text Editing 2.0 - "A large percentage of time behind the computer screen is spent on editing text. Investing a little time in learning more efficient ways to use a text editor pays itself back fairly quickly. This presentation will give an overview of the large number of ways of using Vim in a smart way to edit programs, structured text and documentation. Examples will be used to make clear how learning a limited number of habits will avoid wasting time and lower the number of mistakes. Bram Moolenaar is mostly known for being the benevolent dictator of the text editor Vim."




to sort

  • OpenVim - a web-based project to let people quickly have a taste what kind of an editor Vim is. Vim is considered to be very useful but can feel devastatingly opaque at first. Hopefully this tutorial makes people feel more comfortable to give it a chance. OpenVim is based on a custom engine that interprets vim commands. Fun fact: the engine operates directly on the dom but can be easily refactored to a model that is not view-dependent.


  • Vim Genius - Increase your speed and improve your muscle memory with Vim Genius, a timed flashcard-style game designed to make you faster in Vim. It’s free and you don’t need to sign up.
  • Snake Vim Trainer - Hone your vim navigation skillz. Make your Vim snake eat the food to increase your score. You can only eat food while INSERT mode is on. You cannot change direction while INSERT mode is on
  • VimGolf - Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you? Head on over to vimgolf.com, pick a challenge, and show us what you've got! Each challenge provides an input file, and an output file. Your goal is to modify the input file such that it matches the output. Once you install the vimgolf CLI, pick a challenge, open a prompt and put away! When you launch a challenge from the command line, it will be downloaded from the site and a local Vim session will be launched, which will log every keystroke you make. Once you're done, simply :wq (write and quit) the session and we will score your input and upload it back to the site!
gem install vimgolf
vimgolf setup
vimgolf put [challenge ID]
  • Vim Master - Android app that was created in order to master the operation of vim editor. You can learn a vim operations in quiz format. There are three types of difficulty, Easy, Normal, and Hard. There are 150 questions in total. There are explanations for all questions. You can browse the history of the answered results of yours and other players. You can register your name as Vim Masters for the top grades. This app supports English and Japanese.






  • https://github.com/wikitopian/hardmode - Hard Mode is a plugin which disables the arrow keys, the hjkl keys, the page up/down keys, and a handful of other keys which allow one to rely on character-wise navigation. The philosophy behind Hard Mode is that you'll never master Vim's advanced motion and search functionality if you can fall back on the anti-pattern of fumbling around your code with the arrow keys.

Install

Some scripts require Vim 7.3, but some distros have older builds. You can build 7.3 locally though or use a provision system.

Had syntax issue errors. Rumtime path also should include distro base config..; http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/vim-syntax-highlight-fails-after-debian-upgrade-378073/

Packages and support

Building

Debugging

:map ;
  what is ; mapped to

:verbose  map ;
  include where ; is mapped from

Modes

Normal

:help Normal-mode

Insert

:help Insert-mode

i
  enter insert mode from normal mode

r
  enter replace mode - deletes selected character, enters insert then returns to normal after a new character has been entered

Ctrl-o
  perform normal mode command in insert mode

Ctrl-Y
  copy character from line above

Ctrl-E
  copy character from line below

Visual

:help Visual-mode

v
  enter visual mode from normal mode
V
  enter visual linewise mode
Ctrl+v
  enter visual block mode



Select

:help Select-mode

like the visual mode but with more CUA like behavior. if you type a single character it replaces the selection. you lose access to all one key operations on selections.

This mode is usually activated by: 

:behave mswin
  activate select mode (default for MS-Windows installations)

:behave xterm
  return to normal mode

Command-line

:help Command-line-mode

:
  enter command-line mode

Ex

:help Ex-mode

Q
  enter :Ex mode

:visual
  exit :Ex mode

Ctrl-B
  beginning of line

Ctrl-E
  end of line

:%!markdown
  # % = all lines, ! = external command, markdown = a md2html app

File operations

Command line

vim filename
  edit file (or create a buffer if file doesn't exist)

If you want to start vim with several files in a splitted window, just type; 

vim -o a b c

for the horizontal split, and 

vim -O a b c

for the vertical split.

  • https://github.com/c00kiemon5ter/v - z for vim. uses viminfo's list of recently edited files to open one quickly no matter where you are in the filesystem. by default, it will open the most recently edited file matching all of the provided regular expressions.

In Vim

:e filename
  open filename in vim

:w
  save
:w filename
  save as
:q
  quit if saved
:x
  save if changed and quit, same as :wq
ZZ
  save as above
ZQ
  even if not saved (also :q!)

:ex .
  explore files in file directory. opens in split pans if file modified.
:Sex
  as above but forces split
:Vex
  as above but vertical split
:Tex
  as above but in new tab

<enter>
  open file
o
  open file in new split buffer

display; 

:echo @%
  directory/name of file
:echo expand('%:t')
  name of file ('tail')
:echo expand('%:p')
  full path
:echo expand('%:p:h')
  directory containing file ('head')

File navigation

:Explore

:e ..



  • https://github.com/tpope/vim-vinegar - enhances netrw, partially in an attempt to mitigate the need for more disruptive "project drawer" style plugins. Some of the behaviors added by vinegar.vim would make excellent upstream additions. Many, the author would probably reject. Others are a bit too wild to even consider.





Cursor

:set cursorline




Motion

gg
  start of file
G
  end of file

123G
  move to line 123
:123
  move to line 123 (easier imo)

0
  line beginning
^
  first non-whitespace character
$
  line end

w
  forward to start next word
W
  forward to start of next WORD (ignoring hyphens, etc.)

e
  forward to end of word
E
  forward to end of WORD (ignoring hyphens, etc.)

b
  backward word
B
  backward WORD

ge
  backward to the end of word [count] |inclusive|.
gE
  backward to the end of WORD [count] |inclusive|. [13]

(
  beginning of previous sentence
)
  next sentence
%
  current brace

{
  beginning of previous
}
  next paragraph

H
  cursor to top of screen (high)
M
  cursor to middle of screen (middle)
L
  cursor to bottom of screen (low)
Ctrl-D
  move cursor down half-page
Ctrl-U
  move cursor up half-page 

ma
  mark cursor position 'a'
'a
  move to mark position 'a'



:jumps
 Display the jump list for the current window with:

Ctrl-o
  move back location
Ctrl-i
  move forward location

g;

gj
  move down a soft linebreak line

g,
  move back one edit list location
g,
  move forward one edit list location



zz
  centre screen on cursor
zt
  move screen top to cursor
zb
  move screen bottom to cursor

Ctrl-e
  Moves screen up one line
Ctrl-y
  Moves screen down one line
Ctrl-u
  Moves screen up ½ page
Ctrl-d
  Moves screen down ½ page
Ctrl-b
  Moves screen up one page
Ctrl-f
  Moves screen down one page [14]


  • https://github.com/tpope/vim-rsi - You know Readline key bindings? Of course you do, they're in your shell, your REPL, and perhaps even the GUI for your OS. They're similar to Emacs key bindings (C-a for home), but with several concessions for UNIX (C-w for delete word). With rsi.vim, I've taken that same concession philosophy and extended it to Vim. Get the most useful of the ubiquitous key bindings without blindly overriding built-in Vim functionality.


Finding things

/
  search for text
*
  search for text under cursor

n
  repeat search forwards
N
  repeat search backwards



fX
  move to next X on same line

3FX
  move to third last X on same line

tX
  move to character before next X on same line

T2X
  move to second previous X on same line

;
  repeat find/to movement command
,
  repeat find/to movement in opposite direction


  • https://github.com/svermeulen/vim-extended-ft - adds the following behaviour to the default behaviour of the f, F, t, and T commands: Multiline - Can search across multiple lines or continue searching across multiple lines using ; and , keys, Smart Case - When the search character is lower case it matches both lower and upper case, and when the character is uppercase it matches only upper case. Allow repeating t and T commands using ; or , commands. Highlighting - Which is disabled automatically when moving your cursor afterwards. It's also worth noting that it only adds the new position to the jumplist if you've changed lines.
  • https://github.com/dahu/vim-fanfingtastic - a Vim plugin that enhances the builtin F f , T t and ; keys by allowing them to wrap over lines with the full gamut of normal, visual and operator pending mode supported. This is all the default configuration of Fanf,ingTastic; provides, however the following enhanced functionality can be enabled through configuration options: Case insensitivity: Fanf,ingTastic; is case sensitive by default but can be set to ignore case so that fx will match either x or X. Aliases: Fanf,ingTastic; allows you to create aliases which specify a set of characters that will be scanned for when FfTt;, is used on that alias


  • Seek is a vim plugin that aims to make inline navigation effortless. The motion seek, summoned with s by default, is similar to f, but instead of one it expects two characters.


  • EasyMotion provides a much simpler way to use some motions in vim. It takes the <number> out of <number>w or <number>f{char} by highlighting all possible choices and allowing you to press one key to jump directly to the target.



  • Command-T - plug-in for VIM provides an extremely fast, intuitive mechanism for opening files with a minimal number of keystrokes. It's named "Command-T" because it is inspired by the "Go to File" window bound to Command-T in TextMate. Files are selected by typing characters that appear in their paths, and are ordered by an algorithm which knows that characters that appear in certain locations (for example, immediately after a path separator) should be given more weight. [17]
  • FuzzyFinder - FuzzyFinder provides convenient ways to quickly reach the

buffer/file/command/bookmark/tag you want. FuzzyFinder searches with the fuzzy/partial pattern to which it converted an entered pattern.


  • ctrlp.vim - Full path fuzzy file, buffer, mru, tag, ... finder for Vim.

Line numbers

Operations

.
  repeat last change. doesn't work with plugin actions without script.

i
  insert at cursor
I
  insert at line beginning

a
  append after the cursor
A
  append at the end of the line

o
  add ('open') line below and insert
O
  add line above and insert

x
  delete character under cursor
X
  delete character before cursor

s
  change one character and insert

Delete, yank and paste

Cut, copy, paste. 

y
  yank (copy) current text
yy
  yank current line
"+yy
  yank current line to system clipboard

:%y+
  yank all lines to clipboard [19]



d
  delete and yank (cut)
df*
  delete to (find) and including *
dl
  delete character (alias: "x")
dd
  delete current line including linebreak
dw
  delete to end of word from cursor including space
dE
  delete to end of word from cursor leaving spae
d$
  delete to end of line from cursor

diw
  delete inner word
diW
  delete inner WORD
daw
  delete word, up to delimiter
daW
  delete WORD, including previous space
dis
  delete inner sentence
das
  delete a sentence
dib
  delete inner '(' ')' block
dab
  delete a '(' ')' block
dip
  delete inner paragraph
dap
  delete a paragraph
diB
  delete inner '{' '}' block
daB
  delete a '{' '}' block

3dk would delete 4 lines in the upward direction

"add
  delete line, yank to 'a' register
"Add
  delete line, append yank to 'a' register

"_d
  delete line to blackhole register (no yank)

p
  paste yanked text after cursor/line
P
  paste yanked text before cursor/line

"ap
  paste 'a' register
"0p
  paste last yanked (not deleted) item

Change

c - change (delete and insert)

cc
  delete current line including linebreak, insert
cw
  delete to end of word from cursor, insert
c$
  delete to end of line from cursor, insert
ciw
  delete inner word, insert
ci"
  change inner quoted string
ci(
  change inner brackets
ci[
  change inner contents of [].. ci], ci) for insert on closing bracket
caw
  change an object
caW
  change an object, including space
etc.

Visual

Selection highlighting. 

v
  visual select text

viw
  visual inner word
viw~
  visual inner word, toggle case
vip
  visual inner paragraph
vec
  visual, end of word, change highlighted

V
  visual select lines
Ctrl-v
  visual select a block

Vim now supports incrementing numbers in Visual mode. You can increment numbers by pressing CTRL-A, and decrement with CTRL-X. [20]

Indentation

>
  # indent right

<
  # indent left

=
  # fix indentation for selection

==
  # fix indentation for one line

V=
  # visual select lines, then reformat with =


" If you select one or more lines, you can use < and > for sihifting them sidewards. Unfortunately you immediately lose the selection afterwards. You can use gv to reselect the last selection (see :h gv), thus you can work around it like this in your config: 

 xnoremap <  <gv
 xnoremap >  >gv


Auto-completion

Ctrl-N
  auto-completion next match

Ctrl-P
  auto-completion previous match

Search and replace

:s/foo/bar/ - search and replace first occurrence
:s/foo/bar/s - search and replace, global current line
:%s/foo/bar/g - search and replace, global whole file
:%s/foo/bar/gc - search and replace, with confirm

Global action

:[range]g/pattern/cmd

:g/LinesThatMatchThisRegex/ExecuteThisCommand



:g/text string/d
  delete all lines with text string

:!g/text string/d
  delete all lines without text string [22]

:g/pattern/d_
  fast delete

:g!/^\s*#/d
  delete all lines without a #



qaq:g/pattern/y A
  Explanation qaq is a trick to clear register a (qa starts recording a macro to register a, then q stops recording, leaving a empty). y A is an Ex command (:help :y). It yanks the current line into register A (append to register a).


Macros

qa - start recording macro 'a', q - stop recording
qA - start appending to macro 'a'
@a - play macro a
@@ - execute again
3@a - play macro 3 thrice

:let @a='macrogoeshere' - write macro manually
Ctrl-R Ctrl-R a - insert mode
:let @a='Ctrl-R Ctrl-R a - edit existing macro

(macros are saved in registers)

Registers

"adw
  delete word into the a register
"_dw
  delete word into no register

"*
  system clipboard

Sorting

Spaces

Buffers

An area of Vim's memory used to hold text read from a file. In addition, an empty buffer with no associated file can be created to allow the entry of text. 

:b [buffer number of any part of name]
  switch to a buffer

set wildchar=<Tab> wildmenu wildmode=full
  with this, :b [tab] gives a menu



:bd
  close buffer


  • spinner.vim : fast buffer/file/tab/window switching plugin with only 3 keys.

Windows

Windows are like tmux panes, awesome clients, i3 windows, etc. Windows can hold file buffers or plugins like Nerdtree, which are browsable via searches, etc. 

:sp [filename]
  open file in new split window

Ctrl-W w
  move forward window
Ctrl-W W
  move backwards window

Ctrl-W then h, j, k, l
  move window focus to left, below, above, right

Ctrl-W then H, J, K, L
  move window in the direction of left, below, above, right

Ctrl-W x
  switch windows around

Ctrl-W =
  balance window splits

Ctrl-W _
  maximize focused window horizontally
Ctrl-W |
  maximize focused window vertically

:qall
  quit all buffer windows on current tab



  • golden-ratio - Resize windows automatically using the Golden Ratio

dwm.vim

map <silent> <C-J> <C-W>w
map <silent> <C-K> <C-W>W
map <silent> <C-,> :call DWM_Rotate(0)<CR>
map <silent> <C-.> :call DWM_Rotate(1)<CR>

map <silent> <C-N> :call DWM_New()<CR>
map <silent> <C-C> :call DWM_Close()<CR>
map <silent> <C-Space> :call DWM_Focus()<CR>
map <silent> <C-@> :call DWM_Focus()<CR>

map <silent> <C-H> :call DWM_GrowMaster()<CR>
map <silent> <C-L> :call DWM_ShrinkMaster()<CR>

Tabs



:tab new
  or
:tabe
  create new tab

:tabc
  close tab

:tabs
  list existing tabs

gt
  go to next tab
gT
  go to previous tab
{i}gt
  go to tab in position i

:tab drop {file}
  open {file} in a new tab, or jump to a window/tab containing the file if there is one
:tab split
  copy the current window to a new tab of its own

:tabm [n]
  move tab to nth position
:tabm
  move tab to last
:tab ball
  split all buffers into tabs
:tab help
  open a new help window in its own tab page

:bufdo qall
  send qall command to all tabs
:wqall!
:xall!
  to check


Client/server

Sessions

:mks sessionsave.file
  save session

vim -S sessionsave.file
  load session from cli


  • https://github.com/xolox/vim-session - improves upon Vim's built-in :mksession command by enabling you to easily and (if you want) automatically persist and restore your Vim editing sessions. It works by generating a Vim script that restores your current settings and the arrangement of tab pages and/or split windows and the files they contain.


  • https://github.com/tpope/vim-obsession - Vim features a :mksession command to write a file containing the current state of Vim: window positions, open folds, stuff like that. For most of my existence, I found the interface way too awkward and manual to be useful, but I've recently discovered that the only thing standing between me and simple, no-hassle Vim sessions is a few tweaks: Instead of making me remember to capture the session immediately before exiting Vim, allow me to do it at any time, and automatically re-invoke :mksession immediately before exit. Also invoke :mksession whenever the layout changes (in particular, on BufEnter), so that even if Vim exits abnormally, I'm good to go. If I load an existing session, automatically keep it updated as above. If I try to create a new session on top of an existing session, don't refuse to overwrite it. Just do what I mean. If I pass in a directory rather than a file name, just create a Session.vim inside of it. Don't capture options and maps. Options are sometimes mutilated and maps just interfere with updating plugins.


  • https://github.com/mhinz/vim-startify - provides dynamically created headers or footers and uses configurable lists to show recently used or bookmarked files and persistent sessions. All of this can be accessed in a simple to use menu that even allows to open multiple entries at once.

Coding

  • https://github.com/w0rp/ale - Asynchronous Lint Engine) is a plugin for providing linting in NeoVim and Vim 8 while you edit your text files.




  • https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround - all about "surroundings": parentheses, brackets, quotes, XML tags, and more. The plugin provides mappings to easily delete, change and add such surroundings in pairs.




  • https://github.com/AndrewRadev/inline_edit.vim - Edit code that's embedded within other code. Execute :InlineEdit within the script tag. A proxy buffer is opened with only the javascript. Saving the proxy buffer updates the original one. You can reindent, lint, slice and dice as much as you like.





Undo

u
  undo last change
Ctrl-u
  undo whilst in insert mode 
U
  undo all changes to current line
Ctrl-r
  redo

Ctrl-g
  create new undo point


Highlight

:so $VIMRUNTIME/syntax/hitest.vim
  # output all highlight groups

Alignment


Completion

Ctrl-n
  # autocomplete keyword forwards
Ctrl-p
  # autocomplete keyword backwards

Ctrl-x
  # completion mode

Ctrl-x Ctrl-f
  # filepath completion mode


  • YouCompleteMe - a fast, as-you-type, fuzzy-search code completion engine for Vim. It has several completion engines: an identifier-based engine that works with every programming language, a semantic, Clang-based engine that provides native semantic code completion for C/C++/Objective-C/Objective-C++ (from now on referred to as "the C-family languages"), a Jedi-based completion engine for Python and an omnifunc-based completer that uses data from Vim's omnicomplete system to provide semantic completions for many other languages (Ruby, PHP etc.).[27]
  • https://github.com/Shougo/neocomplcache - the abbreviation of "neo-completion with cache". It provides keyword completion system by maintaining a cache of keywords in the current buffer. neocomplcache could be customized easily and has a lot more features than the Vim's standard completion feature.


Interface


  • vim-pad - A quick notetaking plugin for vim.
  • vimroom - Simulating a vaguely WriteRoom-like environment in Vim.
  • scratch.vim - Plugin to create and use a scratch Vim buffer



  • https://github.com/junegunn/limelight.vim - different font colors for the paragraph in which the cursor is operating and the other paragraphs. Normally it works the way that the paragraph with the cursor (in which I am writing) maintains the normal font color while the other paragraphs turn into a grey that does not raise attention anymore.
  • https://github.com/amix/vim-zenroom2 - A Vim extension that emulates iA Writer environment when editing Markdown, reStructuredText or text files. It requires goyo.vim and it works by setting global Goyo callbacks that triggers special setup for Markdown, reStructuredText and text files.


Folds

Folds are sections of text reduced to one line (based on brackets, indentation, etc.). Folding is on by default. I have the foldlevel dialed up to 20 to avoid them. 

zo - open fold
zO - open fold recursively
zc - close fold
zC - close fold resursive
zR - open all folds
zM - close all
zj - go down and up a fold
zk - go up a fold

Git

:Gwrite - git add file
:Gread - git checkout (revert) open to staged version
:Gremove - git rm and close buffer
:Gmove - git mv file. with /, relative to git root; without, relative to file
:Gcommit - git commit, opens message buffer
:Gblame - open split window with git blame details
:Gbrowse - open Github, else git instaweb for local sevrer

<c-w>h<c-w>c
  exit :Gdiff mode

vim#diff resolution: 

:diffget [buffer] - get diff from another buffer
:diffput [buffer] - put diff into another buffer
:diffupdate - update diff colouring
dg - get from other buffer pane (only 2 pane)
dp - put to other buffer pane (works in 3 pane)
[c - jump to previous changeset
]c - jump to next changeset
:only - close buffers other than active


  • https://github.com/airblade/vim-gitgutter - shows a git diff in the 'gutter' (sign column). It shows whether each line has been added, modified, and where lines have been removed. breaks vim on script load on server side git repos for me.
  • https://github.com/mhinz/vim-signify - Sy sgitgutter.vim]hows all added, deleted and modified lines since the last commit via Vim its sign column. It supports several version control systems.


  • https://github.com/gregsexton/gitv - a ‘gitk clone’ plugin for the text editor Vim. The goal is to give you a similar set of functionality as a repository viewer. Using this plugin you can view a repository’s history including branching and merging, you can see which commits refs point to. You can quickly and easily view what changed to which files and when. You can perform arbitrary diffs (using Vim’s excellent built in diff functionality) and you can easily check out whole commits and branches or just individual files if need be.


  • https://github.com/rhysd/committia.vim - When you type git commit, Vim starts and opens a commit buffer. This plugin improves the commit buffer. committia.vim splits the buffer into 3 windows; edit window, status window and diff window. You no longer need to repeat moving to another window, scrolling and backing to the former position in order to see a long commit diff.

Debugging

Syntax

General

  • Syntastic is a syntax checking plugin that runs files through external syntax checkers and displays any resulting errors to the user. This can be done on demand, or automatically as files are saved. If syntax errors are detected, the user is notified and is happy because they didn't have to compile their code or execute their script to find them. At the time of this writing, syntax checking plugins exist for applescript, c, coffee, cpp, css, cucumber, cuda, docbk, erlang, eruby, fortran, gentoo_metadata, go, haml, haskell, html, javascript, json, less, lua, matlab, perl, php, puppet, python, rst, ruby, sass/scss, sh, tcl, tex, vala, xhtml, xml, xslt, yaml, zpt
  • taglist.vim - Source code browser (supports C/C++, java, perl, python, tcl, sql, php, etc)
    • Taglist-plus provides excellent Javascript support via jsctags- best fork of the fork




HTML

Highlighting

Creating and editing

  • xml.vim : helps editing xml (and [x]html, sgml, xslt) files

CSS

SCSS

JavaScript

PHP

Other


Comments

Doesn't work with some languages 

gc{motion}
  toggle comments (for small comments)
gcc
  toggle comment for the current line
gC{motion}
  comment region
gCc
  comment the current line

Modeline

  • vim tips and tricks: modelines - modelines allow you to set variables specific to a file. By default, the first and last five lines are read by vim for variable settings. For example, if you put the following in the last line of a C program, you would get a textwidth of 60 chars when editing that file:
/* vim: tw=60 ts=2: */

The modelines variable sets the number of lines (at the beginning and end of each file) vim checks for initializations.


Arrow keys

Config

I chose /usr/share/config/vim

/usr/local/share/vim is a default $VIMRUNTIME though


If you're editing .vimrc, you can reload it with: 

:so %

% stands for current file name (see :h current-file) and :so is short for :source, which reads the content of the specified file and treats it as Vim code. [29]

In general, to re-load the currently active .vimrc, use the following (see Daily Vim): 

:so $MYVIMRC

Vimscripts

  • Vim Awesome - a directory of Vim plugins sourced from GitHub, Vim.org, and user submissions. Plugin usage data is extracted from dotfiles repos on GitHub. [30]




Script management

  • NeoBundle is Vim plugin manager based on Vundle.
  • VAM - the short name for vim-addon-manager. You declare a set of plugins. VAM will fetch & activate them at startup or runtime depending on your needs. Activating means handling runtimepath and making sure all .vim file get sourced.
  • vim-plug - A single-file Vim plugin manager. Somewhere between Pathogen and Vundle, but with faster parallel installer. [31]


  • https://github.com/Carpetsmoker/packman.vim - simple Vim plugin/package manager. The ".vim" part of the name is a bit misleading, as it's really just a shell script. As the name hints, it relies on Vim's packages feature. At the time of writing, this is a relatively new feature that may not be available on your Vim. Use :echo has('packages') to find out. You can use pathogen to simulate this feature if your Vim is missing it.


Dashboard

  • https://github.com/mhinz/vim-startify - If you start Vim without giving any filenames to it (or pipe stuff to it so it reads from STDIN), startify will show a small but pretty start screen which shows recently used files (using viminfo) and sessions by default. Additionally, you can define bookmarks, thus entries for files that always should be available in the start screen. It also eases handling of loading and saving sessions by only working with a certain directory.

Gist

Status

  • SmartusLine is Vim plugin that changes the color of the statusline of the focused window according with the current mode (normal/insert/replace)


Services

  • Vmail is a Vim interface to Gmail.

To sort

  • https://github.com/Shougo/denite.nvim - a dark powered plugin for Neovim/Vim to unite all interfaces. It can replace many features or plugins with its interface. It is like a fuzzy finder, but is more generic. You can extend the interface and create the sources. Unite.vim was meant to be like Helm for Vim. But the implementation is ugly and it's very slow. Denite resolves Unite's problems.






  • ZoomWin - Zoom in/out of windows (toggle between one window and multi-window)


  • subvim - Vim customized to be like SublimeText


  • spf13-vim - a distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, GVim and MacVim. It is a completely cross platform distribution that stays true to the feel of vim while providing modern features like a plugin management system, autocomplete, tags and tons more.



Creating


System


  • Conque is a Vim plugin which allows you to run interactive programs, such as bash on linux or powershell.exe on Windows, inside a Vim buffer. In other words it is a terminal emulator which uses a Vim buffer to display the program output. 
:ConqueTerm zsh

:ConqueTermSplit <command>
:ConqueTermVSplit <command>
:ConqueTermTab <command>



  • browser-connect.vim - implements a VIM interface for browser-connect-server in order to provide a live coding environment similar to the one currently available in LightTable.

Math

  • https://github.com/nixon/vim-vmath - Damian Conway's vmath plugin for vim as demonstrated at his OSCON 2013 "More Instantly Better Vim" presentation. Calculates the sum, average, min, and max for a visual region containing numbers.

Colours

Themes

  • Vivify - A ColorScheme Editor for Vim



Mouse

Voice

Tmux integration

  • vimux - Easily interact with tmux from vim.


Remote


  • netrw.vim : Network oriented reading, writing, and browsing

Collaboration


Encryption


Handy

:e scp://root@example.com/~user/folder/.config
  open remote file
$ vim scp://root@example.com/~user/folder/.config

:reg
  list register contents
K
  in normal mode, run man for current word (opens "man word" in shell)



  • https://github.com/mhinz/vim-startify - provides dynamically created headers or footers and uses configurable lists to show recently used or bookmarked files and persistent sessions. All of this can be accessed in a simple to use menu that even allows to open multiple entries at once. Startify doesn't get in your way and works out-of-the-box, but provides many options for fine-grained customization.


  • https://github.com/vim-scripts/DrawIt - a plugin which allows one to draw lines left, right, up, down, and along both slants. Optionally one may "cap" the lines with arrowheads. One may change the horizontal, vertical, slant, and crossing characters to whichever characters one wishes.



Vim everywhere


vim-anywhere


File management


Shell integration

  • https://github.com/ardagnir/athame - Athame patches your shell to add full Vim support by routing your keystrokes through an actual Vim process. Athame can currently be used to patch readline (used by bash, gdb, python, etc) and/or zsh (which doesn't use readline). Don't most shells already come with a vi-mode? Yes, and if you're fine with basic vi imitations designed by a bunch of Emacs users, feel free to use them. ...but for the true Vim fanatics who sacrifice goats to the modal gods, Athame gives you the full power of Vim. [35]


Browser navigation


  • https://github.com/ueokande/vim-vixen - Vim Vixen is a Firefox add-on which allows you to navigate with keyboard on the browser. Firefox started to support WebExtensions API and will stop supporting add-ons using legacy APIs from version 57. For this reason, many legacy add-ons do not work on Firefox 57. Vim Vixen is a new choice for Vim users since Vim Vixen uses the WebExtensions API.


Browser textarea

  • wasavi - an extension for Chrome, Opera and Firefox. wasavi transforms TEXTAREA element of any page into a VI editor, so you can edit the text in VI. wasavi supports almost all VI commands and some ex commands. wasavi is under development. Any bug report or feature request is welcome.
  • GhostText 👻 - Use your text editor to write in your browser. Everything you type in the editor will be instantly updated in the browser (and vice versa).


Javascript

hmm.

wasm

Live editing

  • https://github.com/jaxbot/brolink.vim - Browserlink is very simple. The plugin itself hooks autocommands for file changes (and other things) to the provided functions. The functions connect through HTTP to a node.js backend, which your webpage connects also to. The entire process happens extremely fast.

Neovim


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