DocTabs: a vim plugin for organizing a file into sections
Author: Janos Barbero jbarbero@cs.washington.edu
DocTabs is like having screen/tmux for a single buffer. Vim already lets you manage different buffers very efficiently, but within a buffer you are limited to jumping by searches or tags. With DocTabs, however, you can organize a large file into sections, which you can visualize and jump between. Each section keeps its own editing view so you can jump back to where you were easily. The prefix-style switching should be familiar to screen/tmux users. The tabline is used to show all the sections and highlight the currently active one, hence the plugin's name.
This is useful for a wide range of scenarios: documentation, source code, HTML, project plans, todo or GTD files, reminder files, journals, novels, your ~/.vimrc, etc. The DocTabs plugin and documentation were both written using DocTabs.
For more information, check out doc/doctabs.txt
DocTabs is released under the GNU General Public License, version 3.
- 0.9 Allow spaces in section names, pick up section changes sooner
- 0.8 Allow user-specified switching prefix
- 0.7 Allow alphanumeric tab labels for easier switching
- 0.6 Handle tabline overflow rendering
- 0.5 Highlight section headings, only update views when using jumps
- 0.4 Optional folding of other sections
- 0.3 Navigation functions to switch between sections
- 0.2 Save context for each section
- 0.1 Render tabline