vim-plugin

Is it possible to have vim's tab list presented vertically on the left side of the editor? It'd be really helpful, but I haven't managed find any plugins that can do this yet. (do i suck at google?) Randy Morris It seems to me as though you are using tabs as buffers. I'd politely ask that you take a second to read this answer if that is indeed the case. I'd also strongly urge you to change this habit. However, if you are indeed using tabs for this purpose you could potentially get a 'vertical tab list' by issuing :ls to list the buffers. You could also use one of the many buffer explorer

How can I make Vim change cursor in different modes so that these conditions are satisfied: Without using gconftool or such tools. I need this affect only one instance of Vim, not the whole terminal. This must be working in Gnome Terminal and GVim . PS : I have tried changing with sample in help gcr , but it only works for GVim, and not Vim in Gnome terminal. PPS : I have tested http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Change_cursor_shape_in_different_modes , but it changed the cursor for the whole terminal. PPPS :Playing with gcr is preferred. Billy Chan I've encountered the same problem before and tried a

The documentation to vim's system function says this about the second argument: When {input} is given, this string is written to a file and passed as stdin to the command. What I understood from that was that if your system call looked like this: call system('node something.js --file', 'here is some text') The command executed would look like this: node something.js --file some/temp/file and some/temp/file would have the text here is some text as its contents. To test this, I ran the vim command (the second line is the result): :echo system('cat', 'here is some text') here is some text Ok,

right now I'm cleaning up my .vimrc file to make sure it's compatible on most systems. In my statusline I use a function that another plugin sets, the GitBranchInfoString() function introduced by this plugin . What I wanna do is check if this function is set, and only then add it to the statusline. It would be in it's own line so I just need to check for it. What would be the simplest way to accomplish this? Thanks for all your help! EDIT: I have the following: if exists('*GitBranchInfoString') let &stl.='%{GitBranchInfoString()}' endif Use if exists("*GitBranchInfoString") " do stuff here

Up until last week, I had been using RubyMine for my Rails development. I know it has a vim plugin but I have been working on migrating my development to vim and tmux. I don't want to keep using the mouse and VIM gives me a lot more flexibility. I have found plugins and workarounds for almost all the features I care about except the "interpreted auto complete" functionality in my first screenshot below. RubyMine interprets the whole rails application and offers sorted-by-relevance suggestions (as you can see, it's showing me instance variables and methods for the class in question and the

Is there a plugin for vim, somewhat like Jsbeautify, which automatically generates JavaDoc like comments in the script files. For example it will take this function(a , b , c){ } and return /** * Description. * * @param a Description. * @param b Description. * @param c Description. */ function(a , b , c){ } claus Here's a little something to get you started - tweak as required!-) " generate doc comment template map <LocalLeader>/ :call GenerateDOCComment()<cr> function! GenerateDOCComment() let l = line('.') let i = indent(l) let pre = repeat(' ',i) let text = getline(l) let params = matchstr