Questions tagged [plugin-development]
Questions about the development of plugins for Vim. *Do not* use this tag for questions about a specific plugin.
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Vim feedkeys in operator pending mode
I'm trying to build a very simple plugin that allows for pressing a keymapping <Leader>, to call a function that prompts for a single keypress:
function! ControlKey()
echo "Key → <C-Key&...
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Best way to avoid clobbering other vim plugins with global commands
I'm developing a vim plugin. There will be some global-level functionality that's not specific to a particular filetype.
Is there some kind of registry of commands being used by vim packages?
How ...
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Live search in temporary buffer
Faced a problem that I cannot force the buffer with results and the input field to work together, but not in turn (like in CtrlP)
function! s:SearchByListFiles(all_files, query)
let searched = []
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Subscribe to a buffer event in a lua plugin
I want to write a plugin that will watch a buffer for changes and execute different functions depending on the change.
I know I can use nvim_buf_attach() to subscribe to buffer events, but they are ...
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Vim package development python support for 2, 3, or both?
Apparently there are some issues preventing vim from being built with both python and python3 support under many linux distributions and OSX. This makes it difficult or impossible for many users to ...
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Generate non editable glyphs/adornments on top of text in Vim?
Visual Studio has a feature for C# that displays how many times a given method has been referenced. This information is displayed as tiny greyed out text above the method names. It is not possible to ...
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How to save and restore a mapping?
I am developing a plugin for Vim and I would like to define a mapping which would be available only while the "execution of the plugin".
So far the (simplified) workflow of the plugin is the ...
