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This is it. A start screen for Vim.
What does it provide?
1) It shows things on start!
If you start Vim without giving any filenames or piping text to it, Startify will show a pretty start screen that shows a configurable list of items:
Custom header ( empty by default ):
How about some ASCII art action?
Files from directory ( disabled by default ):
This lists all files from the current directory sorted by modification time.
Recently used files ( enabled by default ):
This uses the viminfo file to get a list of most recently used files. The list can also be filtered.
Sessions ( enabled by default ):
This will list all your sessions from a certain directory.
Bookmarks ( empty by default ):
Additionally, you can define bookmarks, thus entries for files that always should be available on the start screen.
See :h startify-options for more information.
2) Easy session handling
It eases handling of loading, saving and deleting sessions by always working with one and the same directory. These commands are used for convenience:
:SLoad load a session
:SSave save a session
:SDelete delete a session
See :h startify-commands for more information.
3) Easy but powerful entry handling
You can either navigate to a certain entry using j/k and hit <cr> or just
key in whatever is written between the square brackets on that line. You can
even double-click anywhere on the line.
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) for marking it. You can mark several entries and also mix different
markers. Afterwards execute all the markers in the order they were given via
<cr>.
In case you don't want to open a file, there is also e for creating an empty
buffer, i for creating an empty buffer and jumping into insert mode and q
for quitting.
When one or more files were opened by Startify, it will close automatically. You
can always reopen the screen via :Startify.
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 your Vim on!
Installation & Documentation
If you have no preferred installation method, I suggest using tpope's pathogen. Afterwards installing vim-startify is as easy as pie:
$ git clone https://github.com/mhinz/vim-startify ~/.vim/bundle/vim-startify
$ vim
It works without any configuration, but you might want to look into the documentation for further customization:
:Helptags " rebuilding tags files
:h startify
Author
Marco Hinz <mh.codebro@gmail.com>
License
Copyright © Marco Hinz. Distributed under the same terms as Vim itself. See
:help license.