plug-search

Installation

To install using vim-plug:

Plug 'starcraftman/plug-search' | Plug 'tyru/open-browser.vim'

Demo

A short demo of current features.

Notes

Placeholder for an idea I had as a semi-official extension to vim-plug. Based on a small snippet I remember seeing from junegunn completing from vim-awesome. I don't think it quite fits inside vim-plug given the db, so better as a plugin itself.

Things it should do:

• Provide some basic search via description/tags (i.e. PlugSearch).
• Maintain a curated db of plugins with useful information. PRs welcome.
• Provide completion for Plug lines from this db. Toggleable.
• Generate a tags.json db from main db for finding related plugins.
• Provide some simple warnings of deprecations to users:
  • Example, user using kien/ctrlp.vim (inactive) -> notify about ctrlpvim/ctrlp.vim (active)
  • Perhaps even detect when a plugin hasn't received a commit in x period and warn user? Might be annoying.

Development

To help people easily contribute/edit the json from vim.

Handy vim plugins:

• Plug 'elzr/vim-json'
  • Nice highlihting and concealing for json files.
• Plug 'scrooloose/syntastic'
  • Live writing syntax checker using jsonlint.
• Compress/decompress json inside vim easily (see jq below).

nnoremap <Leader>jq :%!jq .<CR>
nnoremap <Leader>jQ :%!jq . -c<CR>

Handy programs:

• jsonlint:
  • Install: sudo npm install jsonlint -g
  • Lints json files, integrates with syntastic.
• jq:
  • Install: sudo apt-get install jq
  • Compress database: jq '.' -c db.json > db.json
  • Deompress/pretty database: jq '.' db.json > db.json