jackboberg / html_entities_helper.vim

HTML Entities helper functions for Vim

HTML Entities Helper for Vim

A couple of handy search-and-replace functions for Vim that: -

• convert unicode characters to their repspective named HTML entities
• convert named HTML entities to their unicode codepoint equivalents

Changelog

• 1.0 - Initial Version

Installation

Save yourself a lot of hassle and install Tim Pope's excellent Pathogen plugin to manage your Vim scripts.

Pathogen Users

Clone the github repository into your VIM/bundle directory. Or else add it as a git submodule to the same place.

Non-Pathogen Users

Copy html_entities_helper.vim into your VIM/plugin directory and restart.

Examples

<leader>He

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<leader>Hn

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Notes

Currently conversions are across the entire current Vim buffer, future version will work on a visual selection but if you need to work on a sub section of a buffer in the meantime copy it to a new buffer, convert and paster back in.