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Today, I would like to share with you the relevant knowledge points of the plug-ins commonly used in VIM, which are detailed in content and clear in logic. I believe most people still know too much about this, so share this article for your reference. I hope you can get something after reading this article.

Plug-in installation Settings

This is for new users, assuming they don't know how to install the Vim plug-in. So, first of all, give some steps to complete the installation setup.

Create a ".vim" directory under your home directory, and create subdirectories "autoload" and "bundle" in it.

Then place the "pathogen.vim" file in "autoload", which can be downloaded from "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tpope/vim-pathogen/master/autoload/pathogen.vim"".

Finally, create a ".vimrc" file in your home directory and add the following.

1. Call pathogen#infect ()

At this point, you have completed the preparation for the installation of the Vim plug-in.

Note: we have discussed using Pathogen to manage the Vim plug-in.

Now that it's all set up, let's talk about two useful Vim plug-ins.

Vim tag sidebar (Tagbar) plug-in

The first is the tag sidebar (Tagbar) plug-in. The plugin allows you to browse the tags contained in the source file to provide an overview of the structure of the source file. The plug-in description on its website says: "it does this by creating a sidebar and then displaying the tags extracted with ctags from the current file in a certain order. This means, for example, that the methods in C++ will be displayed in their own defined classes."

Sounds cool, doesn't it? Let's see how to install it.

The installation of the tab sidebar (Tagbar) is fairly easy-you only need to run the following command:

1. Cd ~ / vim/bundle/2.3. Git clone git://github.com/majutsushi/tagbar

After installation, you can test it by opening a ".cpp" file in Vim: enter command mode and run the ": TagbarOpen" command. The following is the effect of the sidebar (on the right) after running the ": TagbarOpen" command.

Use ": TagbarClose" to close the sidebar. It is worth mentioning that you can use the ": TagbarOpen fj" command to open the sidebar to turn on its shift control function. In other words, you can easily browse the tags contained in the current file-press the Enter key on the corresponding tab, and then jump to the corresponding location in the source code window on the left.

If you want to switch the sidebar repeatedly, you can use the: TagbarToggle command instead of alternating: TagbarOpen and: TagbarClose commands.

If you find it time-consuming to enter these commands, you can create shortcuts for the: TagbarToggle command. For example, add the following to the .vimrc file:

Nmap: TagbarToggle

In this way, you can use F8 to switch the tab sidebar (Tagbar).

Further, sometimes you may notice that there is a "+", "-" or "#" symbol in front of a tag. For example, the following screenshot (taken from the plugin's website) shows some tags with a "+" sign in front of them.

These symbols are basically used to indicate the visibility information of a particular tag. In particular, + indicates that the class is public, while-represents a private class. # represents a protected class.

Here are some considerations for using the label sidebar (Tagbar):

The plug-in's website has long stated: "the tag sidebar (Tagbar) is not designed to manage tags files, it is only to dynamically create the required tags in memory, not to create any files. The management of tag (tags) files is supported by other plug-ins." There is a compatibility issue with the Vim and label sidebar (Tagbar) plug-ins earlier than 7.0.167. According to the official website: "if you are affected by this problem, please use an alternative version:" https://github.com/majutsushi/tagbar/zipball/70fix") downloads the zip package. This corresponds to version 2.2, but it may not be upgraded due to a large number of dependency changes. " If you encounter an error when loading the plug-in: ctags! (Tagbar: Exuberant ctags not found!). You can download and install ctags from ("http://ctags.sourceforge.net/")" to fix the error.

Vim delimiter automatic completion (delimitMate) plug-in

The next plug-in to be introduced is delimiter automatic completion (delimitMate). The plug-in provides automatic completion of delimiters such as quotation marks, parentheses and square brackets in Vim insert mode.

"it also provides some related features to make it easier for you to enter in mode," the plug-in's website said. such as syntax error correction (closing delimiters are not automatically inserted in comments or other configurable areas), enter and space filling (off by default). "

The installation steps are similar to those described earlier:

1. Cd ~ / vim/bundle/2.3. Git clone git://github.com/Raimondi/delimitMate.git

Once you have successfully installed the plug-in (that is, the above command was successfully executed), you do not need to make any configuration-the plug-in is automatically loaded when Vim starts.

At this point, any time you use Vim, as long as you enter a double quotation mark, single quotation mark, order mark, parentheses, square brackets, they will be completed automatically.

You can configure the delimiter automatic completion (delimitMate) yourself. For example, you can add a list of symbols that need to be automatically completed, prevent the plug-in from being loaded automatically, turn off the plug-in for files of a specified type, and so on. To learn how to configure these (or more), read the detailed documentation of the plug-in-- run ": help delimitMate".

The above command will split your Vim window horizontally into two, one of which contains what we call a document.

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