Navigation Commands

Built-in Navigation Commands

Laravel.vim provides navigation commands for editing files based on type. For example, you can use :Econtroller FooController to edit app/Http/Controllers/FooController.php and :Econfig app to edit config/app.php. Each navigation command offers completion for the given resource type.

The E stands for edit. You also get S, V, and T variants that split, vsplit, and tabedit. These commands rely on projectionist.vim (see Requirements):

Command	Applies to...
:Easset	Anything under resources/assets/
:Ebootstrap	Bootstrap files in boostrap/
:Ecast	Eloquent attribute casts
:Echannel	Broadcast channels
:Ecommand†	Console commands
:Ecomponent	Blade components
:Econfig	Configuration files
:Econtroller	HTTP controllers
:Edoc	The README.md file
:Eenv	Your .env and .env.example
:Eevent	Events
:Eexception	Exceptions
:Efactory	Model factories
:Ejob†	Jobs
:Elanguage	Messages/translations
:Elib	All class files under app/
:Elistener	Event listeners
:Email	Mailables
:Emiddleware	HTTP middleware
:Emigration	Database migrations
:Emodel	Models
:Enotification	Notifications
:Eobserver	Eloquent event observers
:Epolicy	Auth policies
:Eprovider	Service providers
:Erequest	HTTP form requests
:Eresource	HTTP resources
:Eroutes	HTTP routes files
:Erule	Validation rules
:Eseeder	Database seeders
:Etest	All class files under tests/
:Eview	Blade templates

† Or :Econsole and :Ecommand, respectively, for Laravel 5.0.

Some navigation commands provide intelligent defaults when you don't provide an argument. For example, from a routes file, :Eprovider without argument takes you to app/Providers/RouteServiceProvider.php.

Adding Your Own

You can create your own custom navigation commands for Laravel projects. For example, to edit log files with :Elog, add the following to your .vimrc or init.vim:

augroup init_laravel
  autocmd!
  autocmd User ProjectionistDetect
        \ if exists('b:laravel_root') |
        \   call projectionist#append(b:laravel_root, {
        \     'storage/logs/*.log': { 'type': 'log' },
        \     'storage/logs/laravel.log': { 'type': 'log' }
        \   }) |
        \ endif
augroup END

See :help projectionist for further documentation on creating and using navigation commands.