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Revision as of 01:18, 25 January 2009
Vim scripts – recent changes
Following are recent changes to the Vim Scripts on vim.org
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Best plugins
The following scripts were selected as "best" by the #vim community.
- Enhanced Commentify author Meikel Brandmeyer
- The best language-aware tool to switch lines between commented and uncommented.
- Large File author Charles Campbell
- Edit large files quickly.
- Automatically speeds up Vim by switching off features like syntax highlighting when editing a large file.
- NERD Tree author Marty Grenfell
- A tree explorer plugin for navigating the file system.
- Can open and bookmark directories or files.
- Super Tab author Gergely Kontra and Eric Van Dewoestine
- Do all your insert-mode completion with the Tab key. :help ins-completion
- Surround author Tim Pope
- Easily add, delete or change "surroundings".
- Handles parentheses, brackets, quotes, XML tags, and more.
- For example, ds( deletes the outer pair of parentheses.
- Tag List author Yegappan Lakshmanan
- Source code browser using Exuberant Ctags.
- Supports C/C++, Java, Perl, Python, tcl, sql, php and more.
- Provides an overview of the structure of source code files, and allows you to efficiently browse source code.
Featured scripts
Here are some scripts that may help your life with Vim!
- A plugin that provides word-processor style highlighting to beautify any type of text file.
- The highlighting mechanism uses invisible tokens that are inserted into a Txtfmt buffer with easy to use mappings provided by the filetype plugin.
- Each token affects either the color or formatting of subsequent text.
- Supports 8 configurable colors and all combinations of formatting attributes (bold, underline, italic, standout, reverse, undercurl).
- Txtfmt highlighting regions can nest within syntax regions created by other plugins such as TVO (The Vim Outliner).
- Use the :TOhtml command that ships with Vim to create an html version of the txtfmt buffer.
- Nearly everything is configurable, with defaults to work "right out of the box".
- Complete documentation is in an extensive Vim help file.
- A batch file using Vim to implement the less utility for Windows users.
- Makes Vim a rewindable, syntax-highlighting, searchable pager.
- Based upon less.sh from the macros directory of the Vim distribution.
- Uses macros/less.vim in the 'runtimepath'.
- Works with pipes as well as file names.
- Twitter client author Noahspurrier
- A stand-alone command-line Twitter status update client in Python.
- Requires only a recent version of Python.
- Supports updating your Twitter status in Vim, and at the command line.
- Easily tweet from inside Vim by selecting text to send. You can select text and type \twit to have that text appear in your Twitter status, or use :%!twit to send the entire current document to Twitter.
- You can set your username and password in the environment so they don't need to be repeatedly entered.
- autocomplpop.vim author Takeshi NISHIDA
- A plugin to automatically complete each word, after typing two or more characters.
- Popup menu for word completion also appears when moving the cursor while in insert mode.
- Behavior is customizable.
- CCTree C Call-Tree Explorer author Hari Rangarajan
- A plugin to generate call-trees for any function or macro in real-time, within Vim.
- Functionality is similar to that of packages like KScope or Source-navigator. Requires Cscope.
Recommended procedure for this page
Useful scripts should be listed on this page regardless of whether a tip also describes the script. However, if all useful content from a tip is moved to here, then the tip can be deleted.
If the list of featured scripts becomes too large, we will archive some of them (that is, move their descriptions to a subpage).
TO DO
- Need a link to a page giving a general overview of scripts/plugins.
- Probably add some more descriptions using some of the tips added by Metacosm in February 2008.
Old information
This section includes some information on scripts that may assist users of old versions of Vim.
Spell checking for Vim prior to version 7
Spell checking is built-in to Vim since version 7.0. For earlier versions, you can find scripts for English spell checking, as well as for other languages, at:
Corrections to scripts
We do not want corrections to scripts on the Vim Tips wiki (such information cannot be verified with reasonable effort, and is valid only for specific versions and for a limited time). Instead, please notify the script maintainer so any problems can be rectified, or post to the vim-dev mailing list. The following list contains some information that may be useful, but we will delete it later.
- In script#168, there is an error in file ide.vim line 600 which is return ret; (omit the ';' to fix).