MDtoc: MarkDown ToC Vim Plugin

MDtoc is a Vim plugin intended to ease the creation of Table of Contents in MarkDown files. It started as a simple "make a command to turn text into a slug", then evolved into a "turn text into an anchor link", until finally becoming a full blown plugin.

Contents

1. Features
2. Installation

Features

The plugin offers the following commands:

• :'<,'>Slug is used in visual mode to convert the selected text into a slug.

• :'<,'>Slurl is used in visual mode to convert the selected text into an anchor link pointing to a header with the same text. The idea was to copy a header to ToC and then convert that copy to a link.

• :MDtoc is used in normal mode to create the current document's ToC.
  It parses the document from the current cursor position down to the end, recognises headers marked with any number of hash (#) signs (no --- and === support, sorry), creates a ToC, and inserts it where the cursor is, also removing the existing ToC, if one already exists.

• :MDtocd is used in normal mode to create the current directory's ToC (the d in the name stands for "directory"). It parses the directory in which the file is saved and generates a joint ToC for all the files in that directory, skipping only the current file and those with names starting with _ and ..

Installation

Just put markdown_toc.vim in file-type plugin directory (on Linux, it is usually ~/.vim/ftplugin/). This will make the plugin active (and thus the above functions available) in all documents recognised by Vim as MarkDown (but not any others).

If you prefer to clone this repository and link the plugin from there (possibly for modifications to the code), you can do something like this on Linux:

git clone git@github.com:vsego/markdown_toc.git
ln -sr markdown_toc/markdown_toc.vim ~/.vim/ftplugin/