Friday, February 18, 2011

Re: Vim Scripting Mode/Plugin

Reply to message «Vim Scripting Mode/Plugin»,
sent 23:26:54 18 February 2011, Friday
by Nathan Neff:

I have written vimpluginloader plugin that is actually some kind of framework,
the main point was to write plugin that will be able to reload itself and other
plugins so that I do not need to restart vim on plugin updates. This plugin now
has not very sane API, so I am going to deprecate in favor to frawor plugin
(https://bitbucket.org/ZyX_I/frawor). Unlike vimpluginloader it has sane API and
I am writing tests and documentation alongside with the plugin itself, but note
that it is in prealpha stage, so you should not use it now as well, but you may
steal some ideas about how plugin should be written in order for them to get
reloaded safely (pure vimscript only, I have not touched reloading of python
plugins and won't touch ruby, lua, tcl and others unless someone will write
patches and tests).

Original message:
> I know there's some C, Java, Perl and Bash vim plugins.
>
> Are there any plugins that help with writing Vim scripts?
>
> I've found it a bit difficult to search the vim.org site, because
> searches for "vim scripting plugin" or "vim development" turns up quite a
> few results.
>
> I guess in particular, I'm looking for a simple plugin that would
> provide shortcuts for running Vim scripts, and maybe using the quickfix
> window to jump to syntax errors, etc.
>
> Currently, I just have a mapping that sources the current .vim file
>
> :map <F5>:source %<CR>
>
> Any other cool plugins for helping with writing vim scripts?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> --Nate

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