Vim Lunfardo

In the mid XIX century, Buenos Aires was pullulating with immigrants, mainly Spanish and Italian. Many of them were impoverished and blended in with the already-poor locals: the descendents of aborigins and african slaves.

From the amalgam of the newcomers' languages with Argentina's 'castilian', emerged ther slang known as Lunfardo.

It was created by criminals, mainly to avoid being understood by prison guards.

It was disseminated thanks to 'tango' lyrics, a music which was born as suburban, marginal and was swiftly forbidden by the Church and higher classes. Tango was played and danced in ports, brothels, bars and prisons.

Nowadays, Lunfardo has blended into the castilian language and is part of its idiosincrasy.

Installing Vim Lunfardo

Assuming you're using an Unix-like OS (*BSD, GNU/Linux, OS X, Solaris, etc), you already have vim installed, as well as git & curl you can skip the whole manual and just type in your favorite shell the following command:

curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/unbalancedparentheses/vim-lunfardo/master/bootstrap.sh | bash

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Plugins

jumplist

<C-o> jump back to the previous (older) location
<C-i> jump forward to the next (newer) location

vim-sleuth

This plugin automatically adjusts 'shiftwidth' and 'expandtab' heuristically based on the current file, or, in the case the current file is new, blank, or otherwise insufficient, by looking at other files of the same type in the current and parent directories.

indent and unindent

in visual mode indent select lines
in visual mode unindent select lines

CtrlP

Fuzzy file, buffer, mru and tag finder

<Space-p> invokes CtrlP
<F5> to purge the cache for the current directory to get new files, remove deleted files and apply new ignore options
<C-f> and <C-b> to cycle between modes
<C-d> to switch to filename only search instead of full path
<C-r> to switch to regexp mode
<C-j>, <C-k> or the arrow keys to navigate the result list
<C-t> or <C-v>, <C-x> to open the selected entry in a new tab or in a new split
<C-n>, <C-p> to select the next/previous string in the prompt's history
<C-y> to create a new file and its parent directories
<c-z> to mark/unmark multiple files and to open them

Yank ring

<Space-y> Yank menu

Command line history

<Space-c> Command history

GoldenView

Tiled Window Management for Vim with golden view ratio rule forced by autoresize:

<C-L> split window
<F8> switch current window with the main pane
<S-F8> toggle back current window with the main pan
<C-n> next window
<C-p> previous window

BufferGator

Buffergator is a plugin for listing, navigating between, and selecting buffers to edit. Upon invocation (using the command, :BuffergatorOpen or BuffergatorToggle, or the provided key mapping, b), a catalog of listed buffers are displayed in a separate new window split (vertical or horizontal, based on user options; default = vertical). From this "buffer catalog", a buffer can be selected and opened in an existing window, a new window split (vertical or horizontal), or a new tab page.

Selected buffers can be "previewed", i.e. opened in a window or tab page, but with focus remaining in the buffer catalog. Even better, you can "walk" up and down the list of buffers shown in the catalog by using (or ) / (or ). These keys select the next/previous buffer in succession, respectively, opening it for preview without leaving the buffer catalog viewer.

ferret

Ferret provides an :Ack command for searching across multiple files using The Silver Searcher, Ack, or Grep. Support for passing options through to the underlying search command exists, along with the ability to use full regular expression syntax without doing special escaping.

<leader>a Search prompt
<leader>s Search for the word currently under the cursor

Autocomplete

If your vim has lua enabled and the patch version is bigger than patch-7.3-885 then neocomplete is used for autocomplete.

If your vim hasn't lua enabled then neocomplcache is used for autocomplete.

<Tab> autocompletes

Snippets

If your vim has python enabled then ultisnips is used for inserting snippets.

If your vim hasn't python enabled then neosnippet is used for inserting snippets.

In any case, honza/vim-snippets are used as snippets.

If neosnippet snippets engine is used then also neosnippet-snippets are used as snippets.

<C-k> expands snippets

fugitive

A Git wrapper so awesome, it should be illegal:

<leader>gb maps to :Gblame
<leader>gs maps to :Gstatus
<leader>gd maps to :Gdiff
<leader>gl maps to :Glog
<leader>gc maps to :Gcommit
<leader>gp maps to :Git push

vimshell

Powerful shell implemented by vim

<leader>S opens shell

syntastic

Syntax checking hacks for vim

<F3> checks and shows warnings and errors

autoformat

Provide easy code formatting in Vim by integrating existing code formatters

<F4> autoformats code

easy-align

With the following lines of text

apple   =red
grass+=green
sky-=   blue

Try these commands:

vip<Enter>=
- visual-select inner paragraph
- Start EasyAlign command (<Enter>)
- Align around =
gaip=
- Start EasyAlign command (ga) for inner paragraph
- Align around =

Notice that the commands are repeatable with .

unbalancedparentheses / vim-lunfardo

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