vim-alda

A plugin for Vim providing support for editing and playing Alda scores.

Caveats

• This plugin currently only works on Neovim.

  It would be nice if it worked on Vim, too, but I haven't been able to figure out how get that working without needing to rewrite a bunch of Neovim-specific code to conditionally use either Neovim's or Vim's background jobs APIs.

  If you use Vim and you're interested in contributing support for Vim, I would greatly appreciate it!

Features

• Syntax highlighting and filetype detection.
• Score navigation via [[, ]], [], ][.
• Folds for instrument parts, voices, etc.
• Support for vim-commentary.
• :Alda wrapper for running alda CLI commands
• Useful commands/mappings for playing selections of Alda code.
• Integrates with your Alda REPL session to facilitate interactive development and live coding.
• Commands/mappings for parsing the current score and showing the results.

Installation

Install using your Vim plugin manager of choice. Vundle, vim-plug, and dein.vim are all fine choices.

Of course, if you haven't already, you should install Alda.

Alda version 2.0.0 or higher is required.

Optional

For pretty-printed JSON when viewing a parsed score, install jq and make it available on your $PATH.

Usage

For comprehensive documentation, see :help alda.

Contributing

Pull Requests welcome!

License

Copyright © 2015-2021 Dave Yarwood

Distributed under the same terms as Vim itself. See :help license.