Various functions, plug-ins, and quick-insertion stubs follow alphabetically. There are several plugins that I post both here and at vim.sf.net. Scripts here are my most up-to-date ones and may be considered as alpha/beta releases; I tend to put the ones I'm updating/fixing here. After a bit of feedback, and a variable length of time (ie. whenever I get around to it), I will also post the scripts on vim.sf.net.

I use three release states with my plugins:

• NOT RELEASED -- my latest version (labelled v[0-9]*[a-z], ex. v3b). May be handed out to individuals while I'm attempting to debug some problem they're having. The version number will remain fixed while the plugin is in this state. These versions of my plugins shouldn't get generally released, but accidents happen.

• ASTRO-ONLY -- a somewhat experimental version of a plugin, like "NOT RELEASED" versions, also labelled with a trailing letter such as v[0-9]*[a-z] (ex. v3b). These versions do have their trailing letter changed as they get updated. These versions appear on this website.

• (nothing) -- the plugin has been released on vim.sf.net and concurrently on my own website. These versions drop the trailing letter, having the format v[0-9]* (ex. v3). Those plugins which Bram has picked up for releasing with Vim have also been forwarded to Bram.

If you have some feedback (problems or kudos!), please send an email to NdrOchip@ScampbellPfamily.AbizM (remove the embedded NOSPAM therein first, of course).

• After/Syntax Directories

  Updated Apr 07, 2005 (v2a)

  Several directories, such as .vim/after/syntax, allows multiple files therein but does not look into sudirectories therein. By copying this file to such a directory, and renaming it using the subdirectory name + ".vim", the subdirectory name will be scanned for any and all *.vim files and such files will be loaded. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball Also available at vim.sf.net where you may rank it.


• DrChip's Astronaut Colorscheme

  Updated Aug 10, 2006 (v8c)

  The astronaut.vim colorscheme (see DrChip's colorscheme for more about it) provides a constant colorscheme for both gvim and vim. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• Alignment

  Updated Nov 24, 2009 (v36c)

  Aligns text based on patterns (see page for more!). NOTICE: The latest version of Align and AlignMaps given here need vim 7.0aa. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball Also available at vim.sf.net where you may rank it.


• Alignment Maps

  Updated Jan 06, 2010 (v42f)

  Provides numerous maps to facilitate text alignment(see page for more!) Also available at vim.sf.net where you may rank it. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• Ansi Highlighting

  Updated Feb 01, 2010 (v10h)

  Source this in and ansi escape coloring sequences, The AnsiEsc plugin provides a single command: :AnsiEsc , which will toggle Ansi-escape sequence processing. When enabled, AnsiEsc will handle <esc>[FGm, <esc>[ATTR;FGm, and <esc>[FG;BGm sequences; subsequent text will then be colored appropriately. The escape sequence itself takes space but will be suppressed using "Ignore" highlighting. Ideally the escape sequences would be folded out but that capability isn't in vim yet (vim's folding is line-based). Vince Negri's conceal plugin works really well with AnsiEsc. See the link for Vince Negri's ownsyntax/conceal patch below. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball Also available at vim.sf.net where you may rank it.


• AsNeeded

  Updated Oct 21, 2009 (v17d)

  Supports automatic sourcing (loading) of functions as needed. AsNeeded.vim is a plugin that sources other scripts in the .vim/AsNeeded directory when a function is called that is needed. One may use :AsNeeded command or :AN command. AsNeeded actually supports as-needed sourcing for functions, maps, and commands. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• AutoAlign suite

  Updated Sep 21, 2009 (v14e)

  Uses the Align.vba.gz package to facilitate aligning equations, etc, as you type them. Also available at vim.sf.net where you may rank it. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• Blockhl: Nesting Level Based Highlighting For C

  Updated Aug 29, 2008 (v6a)

  Blockhl controls the highlighting of leading tabs based on the nesting level of {}s for the C and C++ languages by providing a sequence of graylevels. The file should be put into the .../after/syntax/c directory. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• Calendar Utilities

  Updated Oct 08, 2008 (v3b)

  Used by visincr.vim (which is described below), <calutil.vim> provides three calendar-related functions: DayOfWeek(y,m,d), Cal2Jul(y,m,d), and Jul2Cal(julday). DayOfWeek() converts a date to a day of week name, and the other two convert between dates and the Julian day. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• Cecmatrix: Matrix Handling

  Updated Jan 04, 2008 (v1b)

  This plugin provides:
  
  
  • The MatInit command -- use visual block mode to define a Matrix
    
  • MatAdd, MatSub, MatMult, and MatTpose commands (and functions) to add, subtract, multiply, and transpose matrices
    
  • The MatWrite command -- to write one or more matrices into your text
  Uses the Align and cecutil plugins. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• Cscope Interface

  Updated Jun 23, 2009 (v5b)

  (vim v7.0 only) Cscope interface to find functions which call functions, are called by functions, etc. Put in your .vim/plugin directory, and try :CSh for help. There's optional local quickfix windows, vertical or horizontal window with cscope output, menus, etc. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• DrC's Utilities contains various functions and some maps:

  Updated Aug 20, 2009 (v18d)

  Marks: SaveMark(markname) RestoreMark(markname) DestroyMark(markname)
  Pos'n: SaveWinPosn() RestoreWinPosn() \swp \rwp (actually uses )
  To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• C Function Menu Generator Marcel van der Laan wrote a function :call C_ListFuncs() which uses flist to generate a menu of functions in the current file. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• C Compiler Commands

  Updated Jan 05, 2006 (v1)

  The compiling.vim plugin provides error format files for several C compilers, plus a :Chk command to show one window with source with lines with errors and warnings given Error highlighting and a quickfix window showing the associated messages. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• CtagExpl: Ctags Explorer

  Updated Feb 04, 2009 (v1i)

  An explorer for tags files generated by exuberant ctags; much like Lakshmanan's taglist explorer. However, CtagExpl cooperates with gdbmgr, providing it with a tags-based explorer.


• CVS Conflict File Handler

  Updated Nov 25, 2008 (v2f)

  When one does "cvs update", one may get files marked with "C" for conflict. Cvs was unable to automatically merge one's local version with the repository, and merging requires human intervention. The :CVSconflict command takes the current conflict file, splits it into two separate files, and enables vimdiff-style editing and viewing. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• Decho: DrC's Vim Debugger

  Updated Sep 02, 2009 (v21g)

  The Decho.vim plugin provides debugging messages in a separate window. One puts
  Decho "some message here"
  -or-
  call Decho("another message")
  and Decho will split the screen with a five line debugging window on the bottom of the display where the messages will appear. Allows one to inspect multiple error messages with the usual vim editing commands! More help and commands are available with Decho's help. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• DotFill

  Updated Apr 11, 2006 (v1a)

  Facilitates setting up aligned columns with user-specified fill-characters. Often used with contents pages. Example of usage: :[range]DotFill . (to fill with dots) To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• DrawIt.vba.gz

  Updated Jan 21, 2010 (v11h)

  A plugin for drawing vertical, horizontal, and slanted lines using text. With DrawIt, one may use the number pad to leave a trail of dashes, bars, etc behind. Furthermore, it also supports using visual-block specified regions to draw boxes, ellipses, arrowheads, lines, and to specify floods. Also available at vim.sf.net where you may rank it. The version here requires vim 7.0!!! To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• Stubs

  Updated Jan 14, 2010 (v3d)

  Supports quick entry of language constructs for C, sh/ksh/bash, LaTeX, and vim. Ie. while in insert mode and using C, a if` will result in a if(){} construct entered into your code with the cursor appropriately positioned for further insertion. When done with entering the test expression, hitting <esc&rt; will place your cursor (in insert mode) after the "{". (also see Abbreviations for C) To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• EasyAccents.vim

  Updated Sep 08, 2008 (v9)

  A plug-in that makes using accented characters easier Also available at vim.sf.net where you may rank it. (Version 8) To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• Engspchk (spelling checker)

  Updated Sep 02, 2009 (v65d)

  A multiple-human-language spell checking tool! Supports on-the-fly spell-checking, spelling suggestions, the mouse (when available), and menus (gvim). To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• FlistTree

  Updated Jan 02, 2008 (v9b)

  Shows a graphical function-usage tree. See FlistTree.vim itself for instructions. (uses flist, a program) To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• Highlight

  Updated Nov 26, 2008 (v1b)

  Highlights patterns (like :match, :2match, etc, except any number of such highlights may be used). To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• Indent Files by DrC

  Updated May 03, 2005 (v1)

  The drc_indent.vim package of indent files provides DrC's indent files and customizations for sh, vim, tex, and maple. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• foldcol.vim

  Updated Feb 01, 2010 (v3b)

  Coupled with Vince Negri's conceal/ownsyntax patch, foldcol makes it possible to fold columns of text from view. Also available at vim.sf.net where you may rank it. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• funcsrch.vim

  Updated Jan 25, 2006 (v2a)

  Permits searches to be taken only within a function, as defined by [[ (for start of function) and ][ (for end of function). These normal commands may, of course, be defined as maps in the ftplugin directory to customize them for specific languages. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• Gnu Debugger Manager for Vim

  Updated Dec 18, 2009 (v1u)

  • Provides an interface between vim and gdb: no patches!
  • No external interpreters are used (ie. no perl, no python, ...). However, it does appear to be necessary to have perl, python, or ruby support compiled into your vim to get the shared library call that it uses to work properly. To use it with ruby enabled you'll also need to link vim with EXTRA_LIBS=-lutil . I'm afraid that I don't have tcl available to test if that, too, fixes the shared library call.
  • Integrated multi-window displays include: Messages, Function Stack, Source, Expressions, Breakpoints, Watchpoints, and Netrw. (you'll be wanting the latest netrw available from this website)
  • Snapshot 1 Snapshot 2
  • Its distributed as a gzipped tarball instead of the vimball format usually used here as it contains some binaries (the two xpm files for the breakpoint signs)
  • Currently tested only under Linux; it definitely does need a Unix-like environment.
  • Integration with vim and gdb is provided by the plugin itself with vim's libshare() function and a shared library (C code provided)


• getscript.vba.gz

  Updated Dec 28, 2009 (v32)

  This plugin's :GetLatestVimScripts command (or :GLVS for short) will automate grabbing the latest version of the plugins and scripts that you express an interest in by putting a line into the GetScript/GetScript.dat file. With cooperating plugins, GetScript can build the data file itself, too. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball. Unfortunately, there was a bug that makes the getscript.vim version that was distributed with vim v7.0 cause difficulties with a vimball-installation of a new getscript.vim. So, you'll need to remove the older version of getscript.vim:
  • Change directory to the directory holding the vim 7.0 distribution's plugin/ and autoload/ directories.
  • /bin/rm plugin/getscript*.vim autoload/getscript*.vim doc/pi_getscript.txt


• gvcolors

  Updated Oct 08, 2008 (v7b)

  Gvim colors -- displays a list of named colors that gvim has available with X; each color shows up in its own color! One can toggle between dark and bright backgrounds by using a rightmouse click. A leftmouse click on a color brings it to the top line of the display. The colors at the top of the display have their red-green-blue values, in decimal, on the bottom of the screen. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• Hdrtag Explorer

  Updated Feb 04, 2009 (v1o)

  Explore tags in a left-hand window with the :Hdrtag command. Intended to support the hdrtag program by providing a taglist-like interface for it. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• More Help Syntax Highlighting

  Updated Nov 23, 2009 (v1e)

  This script will add extra highlighting and syntax-based folding to the vim help pages. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• HelpExtractor

  Updated May 25, 2005 (v3)

  This script can be used to make .vim scripts automatically install help. Also available at vim.sf.net To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• Highlight Colors Help and Editor

  Updated Sep 02, 2009 (v9k)

  Shows highlighting colors in their own colors, plus a colorscheme editor! To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• Highlight Current Line

  Updated Sep 02, 2009 (v8c)

  With this plugin the current line will be highlighted Also available at vim.sf.net where you may rank it. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• Highlight Marks

  Updated Mar 20, 2008 (v2c)

  Highlights marks by using the signs feature (your vim needs to be compiled for big/huge). Required: Kruize and Gedde's ShowMarks.vim plugin, which does most of the work. Its at vim.sf.net . To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• Hints for Library Functions (man2 based)

  Updated Mar 13, 2007 (v1)

  Shows prototype hints as one types a function (man page 2 based) To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• Hints for Library Functions (man3 based)

  Updated Mar 13, 2007 (v1)

  Shows prototype hints as one types a function (man page 3 based) To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• HiLinkTrace

  Updated Feb 23, 2009 (v4j)

  A plugin which traces the highlighting linkages; ie. just what highlighting groups associated with the word under the cursor? (hilinks.vim, implements a map "\hlt") To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• Highlighting Matching Brackets

  Updated Oct 28, 2009 (v23i)

  A Vim 6.0 plugin that highlights a matching bracket when the cursor moves on it. Uses HelpExtractor to set up its help. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• LaTeX Maps

  Updated May 19, 2009 (v2g)

  Supports quick entry of LaTeX constructs (ie. ".." becomes ``..'', enum` gets expanded to \begin{enumerate}, etc). To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• LargeFile

  Updated Jan 25, 2010 (v5d)

  Allows much quicker editing of large files (default: 100MB+ are "large"), at the price of turning off events, undo, syntax highlighting, etc. Also available at vim.sf.net where you may rank it. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• Library Viewer

  Updated Sep 17, 2009 (v1h)

  This plugin uses the "nm" utility to present an overview of the contents of archive and object files. Its based on autocmds, and so to use it all one needs do is to open an archive (*.a), an object (*.o) file, or a shared library (*.so) by attempting to edit it. (formerly known as the archive/object visualizer) To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• LogiPat

  Updated Sep 25, 2006 (v3b)

  Provides a :LogiPat {boolean-logic pattern} and forms a search. Also available at vim.sf.net where you may rank it. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• Maintainer

  Updated Mar 27, 2006 (v2a)

  Use ":echo Maintainer" to find out who the maintainer is of the syntax file you're currently using; ":echo Maintainer("language")" to determine the Maintainer of a specific language (ie. c, vim, tex, jsp, etc). To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• Man Page Viewer

  Updated Oct 26, 2009 (v23d)

  A plugin which facilitates the viewing of man pages under Unix systems; supports :Man topic, :Man topic booknumber, :Man booknumber topic, and :Man topic(booknumber). While in a man page the K key will invoke manpaging on the word under the cursor. Also available at vim.sf.net where you may rank it. Supports perl (*.pl, *.upl) and info (*.i), too. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• Maple Syrup

  Updated Jan 25, 2006 (v3b)

  This tarball contains multiple files to support MapleSoft's Maple programming language for symbolic algebra. Included: indent, auto-align, and matchit support. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• Math Keymap

  Updated Jan 07, 2010 (v3g)

  Contains a keymap supporting math under utf-8. Install in the regular vimball way; to use it, ":set kmp=math" when in vim. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• Mines

  Updated Sep 02, 2009 (v18a)

  A game for vim implementing the world famous game of Mines! Also available at vim.sf.net where you may rank it. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• Multi-Column Listing

  Updated Dec 24, 2009 (v1b)

  The mcol.vim plugin converts a list of words into a multi-column listing, much as "ls" does with a list of files. It uses the mcol program; see mcol to get a copy of the source. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• MultiPage

  Updated Sep 02, 2009 (v1i)

  The mpage.vim plugin supports using multiple windows as separate pages to view windows, with each sequential window showing sequential lines of text. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• Network Oriented Reading, Writing, and Browsing

  Updated Jan 21, 2010 (v137b)

  Supports network-oriented editing with urls. One may read and write files using one of several supported protocols (ex: ftp, scp) and browse directories, both remotely and locally. This version requires vim 7.0. Be sure to remove any older versions of netrw before attempting to install this version. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball. Unfortunately, there was a bug that makes the netrw version that was distributed with vim v7.0 cause difficulties with a vimball-installation of a new netrw. So, for vim v7.0, you'll need to remove the older version of netrw:
  • Change directory to the directory holding the vim 7.0 distribution's plugin/ and autoload/ directories.
  • /bin/rm plugin/netrw*.vim autoload/netrw*.vim doc/pi_netrw.txt
Beginning with v108b of netrw: sourcing remote files is supported.
Here's a list of some netrw options that I myself use:
let g:netrw_altv          = 1
let g:netrw_fastbrowse    = 2
let g:netrw_keepdir       = 0
let g:netrw_liststyle     = 2
let g:netrw_retmap        = 1
let g:netrw_silent        = 1
let g:netrw_special_syntax= 1


• Netrw Clean

  Updated Oct 07, 2008 (v1b)

  The netrwclean.vim plugin will attempt to remove the netrw plugin: with :NetrwClean, only the personal directory copy will be cleaned. With :NetrwClean!, this plugin will attempt to remove netrw from both your personal directory and the system directory. You need permission to remove such files, of course. This plugin may be helpful for those who've previously gotten an up-to-date version of netrw but then update their vim later via ftp, cvs, etc with an even more recent version of netrw (in that case, use :NetrwClean). To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• pluginkiller.vba.gz

  Updated Feb 07, 2009 (v3)

  Plugin writers! Have you ever wished you could find what option settings will interfere with your plugin before your users do? The pluginkiller helps automate finding such troublesome settings. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• Rainbow Brackets

  Updated Nov 18, 2009 (v2n)

  This plugin provides a rainbow of colors for matching brackets ( [] () {} ) depending on their nesting level ; it is intended to support the C and C++ languages. The syntax file distributed with Vim for Lisp already supports rainbow highlighting of ()s; bring up vim and type ":help ft-lisp-syntax". To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• RltvNmbr

  Updated Nov 21, 2008 (v3)

  Shows relative numbering signs (ie. relative to the cursor's current position). Really easy to use: :RltvNmbr to enable, and :RltvNmbr! to disable. However, your vim does need to support the signs feature (:version should show +signs); try compiling vim for the "huge" feature. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• Rndm

  Updated Aug 12, 2008 (v4f)

  Returns random variates
  • Rndm() returns uniformly distributed variates on [0, 100,000,000)
  • Urndm(a,b) returns uniformly distributed variates on [a,b])
  • Dice(qty,sides) rolls qty of sides-sided dice and adds them up
  To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• RunView

  Updated Sep 17, 2009 (v3b)

  :[range]RunView[!] filtercmd
  {visual line selection}\rh
  {visual line selection}\rv
  RunView passes user-selected lines through a filter (default filter specified by g:runview_filtcmd); output from the filter is placed into a separate window. Multiple runs of the filter are clearly separated in the filter output window. Great for debugging scripts! To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• SeeTab

  Updated Jun 05, 2008 (v4b)

  Makes leading tabs more visible To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• Showing Current Function Name in Status Line

  Updated Sep 02, 2009 (v2h)

  This package of a plugin and ftplugins manipulates the status line to show the name of the current function that the cursor is in. Currently supported: C, DrChip's debugger output, and Vim. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• Swapping Two Strings

  Updated Jan 21, 2009 (v1h)

  Use this plugin to easily swap strings!
  

    :[range]SwapStrings string1 string2
  

  To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• Tar Handler

  Updated Dec 28, 2009 (v24)

  Michael Toren wrote a nice plugin to handle tar files. I've written a related one that also handles writing changed files back into the tarball. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball. Unfortunately, there was a bug that makes the zip.vim version that was distributed with vim v7.0 cause difficulties with a vimball-installation of a new zip.vim. So, you'll need to remove the older version of zip.vim:
  • Change directory to the directory holding the vim 7.0 distribution's plugin/ and autoload/ directories.
  • /bin/rm plugin/zip*.vim autoload/zip*.vim doc/pi_zip.txt


• Toggle Window Layout

  Updated 11/10/05 (v1a)

  Toggle the window layout from all-horizontal to all-vertical. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• Vimball Archiver

  Updated Dec 28, 2009 (v30)

  Archive and de-archive vim plugins. To install: well, I've decided that the vimball plugin itself should not expect that vimball is available to extract itself. Hence, it is now being distributed as vimball.tar.gz. To unravel and install it:
  • Change directory to the directory holding the plugin/ and autoload/ directories where you want to install vimball. It is probably best to install the new vimball in the distribution directory. If you choose not to overwrite the version that came with the plugin, but to put the new vimball in your personal directories, you must remove or otherwise deactivate the original version that came with vim 7.0.
  • gunzip vimball.tar.gz
  • tar -oxvf vimball.tar
  • (unix) chmod a+r autoload/vimball.vim doc/pi_vimball.txt plugin/vimballPlugin.vim
  I am now also providing a program (you'll need a C compiler) that will create vimballs: mkvimball.


• Visual Block Commands

  Updated Sep 02, 2009 (v20b)

  Performs an Ex command on a ctrl-v highlighted block. I often use it to target substitutes onto just a visual-block selection. The original <vis.vim> was by Stefan Roemer, but this one has been radically modified to support embedded tabs. It appears to operate considerably faster, and has no side effects on register usage, etc. It requires DrC's Utilities as it also retains the original cursor/window positioning using functions from that package. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• Visual C Declarations

  Oct 26, 2006 (v1a)

  Use the shift-F1 key on a declaration in a C file, and a comment explaining the declaration will be appended. Needs the cdecl program! To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• Visual Block Sorting

  Updated Sep 27, 2006 (v4c)

  Sorts the lines based on a ctrl-v block selected portion thereof. Works with Visual Incrementing, too, to just sort the selected block. Vissort also provides BlockSort() which enables sorting blocks of text based on a tag found in each block. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• Visual Incrementing

  Updated Jun 18, 2009 (v20c)

  Transforms a ctrl-v selected visual-block of numbers into an incremented list of numbers. The first line's number initializes the incrementation. The updated <visincr.vim> now uses virtual column information to allow leading tabs, handles ragged right visual blocks, will insert spaces as needed if the count's string-length exceeds the visual-block's constraints, and also accepts an optional incrementation argument (I [incr]) (which can be negative). By default incr is 1. If the initial number is zero-padded on the left (ie. 001), then the column of numbers will also be zero-padded as needed. For the maps which handle dates, you'll also need to have calutil.vba.gz.
  • I [incr] - create an ascending or descending column of numbers, right padded
  • II [incr [zfill]] - create an ascending or descending column of numbers, left padded
  • IA [incr] - create an ascending or descending alphabetic column
  • ID [incr] - create an ascending or descending column of daynames
  • IYMD [incr] - create an ascending or descending column of year/month/day dates
  • IMDY [incr] - create an ascending or descending column of month/day/year dates
  • IDMY [incr] - create an ascending or descending column of day/month/year dates
  The :R... versions (:RI :RII :RIYMD etc) restrict the renumbering/relabelling to those lines which have an appropriate pattern (numbers for :RI and :RII, daynames for :RID, etc). Also available at vim.sf.net where you may rank it. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• Visual Mode Based Swapping

  Updated Mar 07, 2006 (v4e)

  Swap text using visual modes!
  • Select first region using a visual mode (V, v, or ctrl-v), then press <ctrl-y> ("yank").
  • Select second region using a visual mode (V, v, or ctrl-v), then press <ctrl-x> ("exchange").
  HelpExtractor technology is used to automatically install help for vswap. There's also a tip about more swapping at Tip#329 In addition, one may replace columns of text with a selection:
  • Select source region using visual-block (ctrl-v) selection plus motion.
  • Hit <escape>
  • Move cursor to where the upper left corner of the column replacement should be; hit \vr (the backslash is actually <Leader>)
  To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• WhereFrom

  Updated Aug 16, 2005 (v3a)

  Ever wonder where a function, script, or command was defined, or where a setting was last set? WhereFrom helps answer the question. :WhereFrom[!] {function|map|setting|command} (or :WF[!] {function|map|setting|command} for a shorter command) will search the runtimepath to determine where the item was defined. The optional "!" will make WhereFrom continue looking for more than one instance -- the last one found is likely to be the one you have currently loaded. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• Window Kill Ring

  Updated Oct 08, 2008 (v1c)

  Implements a "kill ring" for a vim window: :[N]R[!] [files]
  To see a window's kill ring contents, use :RShow. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• Zip Handler

  Updated Oct 08, 2008 (v23a)

  Zip Handler handles zip files; it resembles Tar Handler in look and feel. It handles browsing, reading, and writing files. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball. Unfortunately, there was a bug that makes the zip.vim version that was distributed with vim v7.0 cause difficulties with a vimball-installation of a new zip.vim. So, you'll need to remove the older version of zip.vim:
  • Change directory to the directory holding the vim 7.0 distribution's plugin/ and autoload/ directories.
  • /bin/rm plugin/zip*.vim autoload/zip*.vim doc/pi_zip.txt


• Z Maps

  Updated 09/06/05 (v1a)

  Helpful z maps
  • z< shift text on screen left
  • z> shift text on screen right
  • z, put cursor in middle of screen
  • z0 put cursor on left-hand-side of screen
  • z$ put cursor on right-hand-side of screen
  • zp put text (like "p") but keep cursor in same column
  • zP Put text (like "P") but keep cursor in same column
  To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball


• ZoomWin

  Updated Oct 11, 2009 (v24c)

  Provides the ability to zoom into/out-of a window (by Ron Aaron and C Campbell), similar to what the editor Brief provided. Version 14 was both about 2/3 the size and faster, and the latest handles quickfix windows, too. Also available at vim.sf.net where you may rank it. To extract this plugin, you'll need the new vimball plugin (or vim 7.1 or later): vimball

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Color Scheme	DrChip's Colorscheme	astronaut.tar.gz
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Category	Description	Link
Elsewhere	Vim Online	Vim Online
	Vim Download Site	Vim Source
	Vim FAQ	Vim FAQ
	Vim CVS Repository	Vim's CVS Repository
	Bill Joy's Original Vi Source Code	Joy's Vi Source
	Colorscheme Examples	Vim Colorscheme Test
	Google's Comp.Editors	Comp.Editors
	Gui Vim Cheat Sheet	Vim Cheat Sheet and Tutorial
	Gui Vim Cheat Sheet	Vim Cheat Sheet
	Less Home Page	The Less home page
	Postscript and PDF versions of Vim's User Documentation	Vim Docs in PS/PDF
	Vi/Ex Tutorial (UnixWorld)	Vi/Ex Tutorial
	Vi Lovers	vi lovers home page
	Vi Reference	Vi Reference
	Vim Book: by Oualline	Vi Improved-VIM
	Vim Book: by RunPaint	Vim Recipes
	Vim Book: by Swaroop	A Byte of Vim
	Vim and VMS	Vim and VMS
	Vim's Author	Bram Moolenaar's Vim Page
	Vim and Eclipse	Vimplugin
	Vim's Latest Syntax Highlighting Files	Syntax Highlighting Files
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	Vim's User Guide	Vim's User Guide
	Fellow Vim User (hypertext)	Stefan Bittner
	Fellow Vim User (vimail)	Cesar A.R. Crusius
	Fellow Vim User (tex latex matchit brkt)	Benji Fisher
	Fellow Vim User (jtags)	Claudio Fleiner
	Fellow Vim User (author of original vim home pages)	Sven Guckes
	Fellow Vim User (windows, binaries)	Steve Hall
	Fellow Vim User (tex latex)	Luc Hermite
	Fellow Vim User (bufexplorer, rcs)	Jeff Lanzarotta
	Fellow Vim User (tips,uil,prolog)	Thomas Köhler
	Fellow Vim User (vi v vim, outliner)	Steve Litt
	Fellow Vim User (map of vim users)	Mikolaj Machowski
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	Fellow Vim User (tips)	David Rayner
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Category	Description	Link
Miscellaneous	Pre-compiled executables	Pre-Compiled Executables	Upd 9/6/00
	(1999) Bill Joy, author of vi	1999 Interview with Bill Joy	Lnkd 9/14/00
	(1984) Bill Joy, author of vi	1984 Interview with Bill Joy	Lnkd 9/14/00
	Early Unix History	Unix History	Lnkd 9/27/00
	Vim Commands	Short Vim List of Commands
	Vim Regular Expressions	Vim Regular Expressions 101	Lnkd 3/14/01
	Vim Functions, Plugs, and Stubs	Vim Functions
	Vim Normal Mode Reference Card (Word97)	Campbell&Troy's Vim 5 Reference Card
	Oleg Raisky's Vim 5 Reference Card	Vim 5 Reference Card
	Vim-LaTeX Suite	Vim LaTeX Suite	Lnkd 12/09/02
	Vince Negri's ownsyntax/conceal patch	Vince Negri's Ownsyntax/Conceal patch
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Category	Description	Link
Scripts	Alignment	Align.tar.gz v28/33	Upd 11/08/05
	German Spelling Checker	German Spelling Checker	Upd 01/25/01
	Hungarian Spelling Checker (based on engspchk v11)	Hungarian Spelling Checker	Upd 06/21/01
	Polish Spelling Checker (based on engspchk v29)	Polish Spelling Checker	Upd 06/21/01
	Yiddish Spelling Checker	Yiddish Spelling Checker	Upd 04/10/01
	Matt Corks' Spelling Corrector	Spelling Corrector	Upd 12/ 1/00
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Category	Description	Link
	Tag Generation	Exuberant Ctags
	Tag Generation	Hdrtag (C, C++, vim, tex)
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Category	Description	Link
Syntax	Amiga Script	amiga.vim.gz
	C shell	csh.vim.gz
	Dec's Control Language	dcl.vim.gz
	Elm Filter	elmfilt.vim.gz
	Unix's /etc/exports	exports.vim.gz
	Lex	lex.vim.gz
	Lisp	lisp.vim.gz
	Maple V	maple.vim.gz
	Rpcgen	rpcgen.vim.gz
	Sh Bash Ksh	sh.vim.gz	Astro-Only
	Sendmail	sm.vim.gz
	Tags	tags.vim.gz
	LaTeX, TeX	tex.vim.gz
	Vim	vim.vim.gz	Astro-Only
	Xmath	xmath.vim.gz
	Xxd	xxd.vim.gz
	Yacc	yacc.vim.gz

Note: An Astro-Only syntax file has not yet been sent to Bram Moolenaar but has been made available here for downloading and testing. Sometimes syntax files are in-between: for example, <csh.vim>, <sh.vim>, and <tex.vim> have been sent to Bram Moolenaar but, sigh, missed the 6.0 release.

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