Show HN: Borland/Turbo C++ flavor menus for Vim 8.2

9 points by skywind3000 6y ago ↗ HN

There are many keymaps defined in my .vimrc. Getting tired from checking .vimrc time to time when I forget some, based on latest +popup feature (vim 8.2), I created this vim-quickui plugin to introduce some basic ui components to enrich vim's interactive experience:

- Well designed and carefully colored Borland/Turbo C++ flavor ui system combined with vim's productivity.

- Can be accessed by keyboard only while mouse is also supported.

- Navigate with the usual Vim keys like h/j/k/l, confirm with ENTER/SPACE and cancel with ESC/Ctrl+[.

- Tip for each entry can display in the cmdline when you are moving the cursor around.

- Pure vim-script, +python is not required.

- No longer have to be afraid to forget keymaps anymore.

https://github.com/skywind3000/vim-quickui

3 comments

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markus_zhang 6y ago ↗

Damn this looks cool. Wish we had something similar for PyCharm and VSCode.

melling 6y ago ↗

Clickable link: https://github.com/skywind3000/vim-quickui

ORioN63 6y ago ↗

I'm probably one of the target users, since I already use vim-which-key for that same purpose. Well, that and fzf, since quickui, also seems to provide a listbox widget.

To be totally honest, I probably won't move my entire config to this. Mostly, because WorksForMe™.

That said, I feel like this indeed solves a huge pain point on vim. Sure, after you start grok'ing VIM motions/macros, some things are easier, but there's still the need to run commands once in a while. Those are not so easy to recall, since they are used sparingly.

I think this is great. It would def. had made life easier, when learning VIM, at the very least.

Now, I just need to figure out a similar tool for tmux.