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This is it. A splash screen for Vim.
What does it provide?
1) If you start Vim without giving any filenames to it (or pipe stuff to it so it reads from STDIN), startify will show a small but pretty start screen that shows recently used files (using viminfo) and sessions by default.
Additionally, you can define bookmarks, thus entries for files that always should be available on the start screen.
You can either navigate to a certain menu entry and hit enter or you just key in whatever is written between the square brackets on that line. You can even double-click anywhere on the line now.
In addition, e creates an empty buffer, i creates an empty buffer and
jumps into insert mode, q quits.
Moreover, you can open several files at one go. Navigate to an entry and
hit either b (open in same window), s (open in split) or v (open in
vertical split). You can do that for multiple entries. You can also mix
them. The order of the selections will be remembered. Afterwards execute
these actions via <cr>.
When the selection is finished, Startify will close automatically. You can
reopen the screen via :Startify.
And you can define your own custom ascii art header now!
2) It eases handling of loading and saving sessions by only working with a certain directory. These commands are used for convenience:
:SLoad load a session
:SSave save a session
:SDelete delete a session
NOTE: These commands can also take session names directly as an argument.
You can also make use of completion via <c-d> and <tab>.
Feedback, please!
If you like any of my plugins, star it on github. This is a great way of getting feedback! Same for issues or feature requests.
Thank you for flying mhi airlines. Get the Vim on!
Installation
If you have no preferred installation method, I suggest using tpope's pathogen:
$ git clone https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen ~/.vim/bundle/vim-pathogen
$ mkdir -p ~/.vim/autoload && cd ~/.vim/autoload
$ ln -s ../bundle/vim-pathogen/autoload/pathogen.vim
Afterwards installing vim-startify is as easy as pie:
$ git clone https://github.com/mhinz/vim-startify ~/.vim/bundle/vim-startify
$ start Vim
$ :Helptags
$ :h startify
It works without any configuration, but you might want to look into the documentation for further customization.
Documentation
:h startify
Author
Marco Hinz <mh.codebro@gmail.com>
License
Copyright © Marco Hinz. Distributed under the same terms as Vim itself. See
:help license.