Github

Google Code is shutting down, so Vim is finally moving to GitHub! You can find it at vim/vim.

I found this through the vim dev group. Given that almost every Vim script that I write about is hosted on GitHub, is seems clear that the community at large prefers GitHub. So…

limelight.vim is a WriteRoom-style plugin that has an additional feature: the active section or paragraph is highlighted. It dims paragraphs using colour calculations, and you can control this using some…

A reader sent in vim-autoformat, which uses external programs to format code. The default formatprograms include formatters for C, C#, C++, Java, JavaScript, and Python.

Angular.vim (GitHub: burnettk / vim-angular, License: Vim) by Kevin Burnett is a set of shortcuts for working with AngularJS projects. Features include switching between test and implementation files (:A), goto file tweaks…

The github-issues.vim (GitHub: jaxbot / github-issues.vim, License: MIT) by Jonathan Warner allows you to look up GitHub issues using Vim. That means the next time you’re writing a commit and want to reference a ticket, you can get completion based on issue numbers.

If you liked the look of Vim.js, then you might be surprised to know that the web-based editor GitHub uses can be coaxed into a Vim mode. I discovered this after reading a post by Lauris Dzilums about the Ace editor that GitHub uses:

You can press CTRL+, or CMD+, (depends on…

Felix Geisendörfer recently wrote Vim Trick: Open current line on GitHub. The idea is to open a repository with GitHub in a browser for the current file and line number in Vim.

GitHub allows you to link directly to line numbers using fragment identifiers. For example…

Techlive Zheng sent in an update for MiniBufExpl (GitHub: techlivezheng / vim-plugin-minibufexpl. This is an old plugin that has passed between several authors, but continues to be popular…

Clam (GitHub: sjl / clam.vim, License: MIT/X11) by Steve Losh makes running shell commands on buffers extremely convenient. He’s made a screencast of Clam so you can see how to use it, but basically buffers can be piped…