Vim

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This page will be about editing ConTeXt source in (g)vim.

Useful plugins

• autocomplete: http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=182, almost undocumented, but life-saving
• spell-checker: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=499, should work automatically once the ConTeXt support is there
• native spell-checking support should be included in Vim 7

LaTeX plugins

perhaps it would be possible to borrow anything from them:

http://vim-latex.sourceforge.net/

TODO

• extract data from texweb and create syntax highlighting definitions for ConTeXt
• add metafun macros (from metafun manual)
• should be easy: clone this script to enable metapost/metafun and XML inside ConTeXt

Powerful key mappings

a set of buffer-local insert-mode macros to speed up ConTeXt source editing (by D.A. 19:52, 8 Jul 2005 (CEST))

• I have remapped <leader> to comma (one hardly ever use commas just before a letter)
• two types of mappings: stand-alone and changing the previous word
• usage of mappings that change the previous word: type the name of the macro and ,ta (for tag, use your leader character instead of the comma); it created \start-\stop block of the macro
• put the code into .vim/after/plugin/context.vim

let maplocalleader = mapleader

" Make start-stop block out of the previous word
imap <buffer> <LocalLeader>ta \start<Cr>\stop<Cr><Esc>4bhdiw$pj$pO
imap <buffer> <LocalLeader>tb \begin<Cr>\end<Cr><Esc>4bhdiw$pj$pO

" Itemize
imap <buffer> <LocalLeader>it \startitemize<Cr>\stopitemize<Esc>O\item<Space>
imap <buffer> <LocalLeader>en \startitemize[n]<Cr>\stopitemize<Esc>O\item<Space>
imap <buffer> <LocalLeader>i<Return> \item<Space>

" Font switching and emphasize
imap <buffer> <LocalLeader>em {\em }<Left>
imap <buffer> <LocalLeader>sc {\sc }<Left>

" Define... and setup...
imap <buffer> <LocalLeader>de \define
imap <buffer> <LocalLeader>se \setup

" Typing and type
imap <buffer> <LocalLeader>ty \type{}<Left>
imap <buffer> <LocalLeader>typ typing<LocalLeader>ta

" Quote and quotation
imap <buffer> <LocalLeader>" \quotation{}<Left>
imap <buffer> <LocalLeader>' \quote{}<Left>