optionalg / vim-startify

A fancy start screen for Vim.

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:

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Custom header ( empty by default ):

How about some ASCII art action?

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Files from directory ( disabled by default ):

This lists all files from the current directory sorted by modification time.

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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.

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Sessions ( enabled by default ):

This will list all your sessions from a certain directory.

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Bookmarks ( empty by default ):

Additionally, you can define bookmarks, thus entries for files that always should be available on the start screen.

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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!

You can also follow me on Twitter: @mhinz

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 <[email protected]>

License

MIT license. Copyright (c) 2013 Marco Hinz.