Syntax

JavaScript is moving pretty fast, so you might find Vim’s built-in syntax lags behind the latest standards and APIs. YAJS: Yet Another JavaScript Syntax by othree is an extended version of jelera/vim-javascript-syntax. It includes support for ES6, web APIs, and DOM keywords.

Keith Smiley at thoughtbot published a detailed about writing syntax plugins. He’s been adding support for Swift to Vim, and has written up all of the steps you need to make Vim support a new language: file type detection (ftdetect), Vim script execution based on file type…

Toyama Satoshi has created a vim-swift project that adds support for Swift’s syntax highlighting and indentation.

Swift is Apple’s new programming language that is REPL friendly and has some innovative “playground” features in the new Xcode.

Bbye (GitHub: moll / vim-bbye, License: Affero GPL) by Andri Möll allows buffers to be closed without changing Vim’s window layout:

Vim by default closes all windows that have the buffer…

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YouCompleteMe

YouCompleteMe (GitHub: Valloric / YouCompleteMe, License: GPL3) by Strahinja Val…

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yntastic

Syntastic (vim.org: Syntastic) by Martin Grenfell is a syntax checking plugin. Syntax can be checked on…