vim-karlmarks
A teaching plugin for Vim. It uses the signcolumn
to display currently active
marks
. These are mostly used as jump locations and some are set by Vim
automatically during the edit sessions. Also user defined marks are shown.
These can be set with m[a-z]
, e.g. ma
sets mark a
and this plugin would
display its line and you can jump to that line with `a
. Captital letters
even allow jumps between files and session persistent marks.
Chances are that you have learned only some of the marks Vim has to offer. This plugin will remember you to use more and once you have that on disk you can always deinstall it again.
Prerequirements
I recommend you use this in your ~/.vim/vimrc
set signcolumn=yes
because if you set it to signcolumn=auto
it will flicker when you change
the window.
Installation
Download the zip file
and extract it inside ~/.vim/pack/coderonline/start/
.
Example
mkdir ~/.vim/pack/coderonline/start/
cd ~/.vim/pack/coderonline/start/
# download plugin in that directory:
curl -o vim-karlmarks.zip https://git.entwicklerseite.de/vim-karlmarks/snapshot/vim-karlmarks-master.zip
# unzip the zip file
unzip vim-karlmarks.zip
# remove zip file (not needed any more)
rm vim-karlmarks.zip
Configure optional and additional marks
Here comes some inspiration for additional marks you could enable. Some are potentially disturbing and are not pre-configured for that reason:
let g:karlmarks = '"' " position in buffer when left
let g:karlmarks .= '{}' " start/end paragraph
let g:karlmarks .= '()' " start/end sentence
let g:karlmarks .= '[]' " start/end sentence
let g:karlmarks .= '.' " last change
let g:karlmarks .= "^" " insert mode stopped
let g:karlmarks .= "'`"
but the g_karlmarks
setting defaults to
let g:karlmarks = "<>"
to allow easier modification of the last selected block, e.g. reposition the
start of the block with m<
and use gv
to show the new selection.
Deinstallation
Remove the folder ~/.vim/pack/coderonline/start/vim-karlmarks
(if you named
it as suggested in the Installation section)
Exmaple
rm -irv ~/.vim/pack/coderonline/start/vim-karlmarks