:Minimap to show the minimap, :MinimapClose to hide it.
Default mappings: <Leader>mm to display the minimap, <Leader>mc to close it.
To overwrite the default keybindings, using following settings in ``.vimrc'':
let g:minimap_show='<leader>ms'
let g:minimap_update='<leader>mu'
let g:minimap_close='<leader>gc'
let g:minimap_toggle='<leader>gt'
Settings
You can customize the color of the highlighting by setting g:minimap_highlight in your vimrc:
let g:minimap_highlight='Visual'
Note: To find out which highlights are available on your vim installation use :hi to get the list.
Troubleshooting
Weird display
Problem:
Certain fonts do not display plain dots and empty spaces, but plain dots and circles for braille characters.
For example, with Inconsolata:
Solution:
As a result, you may want to use any other font that display braille characters in a way that suit the minimap plugin, like Ubuntu Mono, or Droid Sans Mono.
A code minimap for Vim
The Sublime text-editor can display an useful overview of the code as a minimap sidebar.
We can implement the same thing in Vim, relying on the Drawille library to 'draw' in text mode.
This code is made available under a MIT license. See LICENSE for details.
Features
Installation
Note that this extension requires Vim with Python support.
Vundle
With vundle, simply add:
Plugin 'severin-lemaignan/vim-minimap'
to your.vimrc
and run:PluginInstall
from vim.Janus
With Janus just clone inside
.janus
.AUR
AUR just has vim-minimap-git package.
Usage
:Minimap
to show the minimap,:MinimapClose
to hide it.Default mappings:
<Leader>mm
to display the minimap,<Leader>mc
to close it.To overwrite the default keybindings, using following settings in ``.vimrc'':
Settings
You can customize the color of the highlighting by setting
g:minimap_highlight
in your vimrc:let g:minimap_highlight='Visual'
Note: To find out which highlights are available on your vim installation use :hi to get the list.
Troubleshooting
Weird display