Re: Vim and XML -- best setup ?

On 18/06/11 07:40, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> in the *very* near future I will to hack a lot XML/XSLT/XSL/XMP...
> stuff at work and I will do it with vim.
> Unfortunately I am not allowed to install any binary
> executable (with the exeption of the vim package, which is
> already there) on the machine. I am allowed to install "text
> files" (read: vim scripts and setups) in my $HOME.
>
> Due to the lack of time I cannot go deep into "search and explore"-
> mode to find THE working setup for "the best way" to edit
> xml-like stuff with vim.
>
> So I would be very happy if I could get some hints here to
> speed things up a little...
>
> Are there any things to prefer for such a task and worth to
> check?
>
> Thank you very much in advance for any<hint> ;)
> Have a nice weekend!
> Best regards,
> mcc
>

One plugin which I find useful for HTML / XHTML / XML and similar
languages is the CloseTag plugin
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=13 even if its
functionality is now available, though with somewhat more keystrokes,
from Vim's omnicompletion functionality. I would download it into
~/.vim/macros/ (on Unix) or ~/vimfiles/macros/ (on Windows) and then
invoke it by means of

au FileType html,xml runtime macros/closetag.vim

in your vimrc; if your national keyboard has no handy Ctrl-_ you may add
something like

map <F7> <C-_>
imap <F7> <C-_>

(without the -nore- part because we _want_ the remapping to happen) to
get the same functionality on an easily-found key.

Otherwise IMHO Vim (when compiled with Big or Huge features) comes with
quite good support out of the box -- but don't forget to enable (if you
didn't already) filetype detection, filetype plugins and the matchit
plugin, e.g. by having the lines

runtime vimrc_example.vim
runtime macros/matchit.vim

somewhere in your vimrc. (If you don't know whether matchit is enabled,

:verbose map %

will tell you.)

Best regards,
Tony.
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