Nudge Lines

Vim plugin that nudges visually selected lines up or down

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• ⬆️ Top of Document

• 🏗️ Requirements

• ⚡ Quick Start

• 🧰 Usage

• 🗒 Notes

• 📈 Contributing

  • 🔱 Forking
  • 💱 Sponsor

• 📇 Attribution

• ⚖️ Licensing

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Requirements

This repository requires the [Vim][vim_home] text editor to be installed the source code is available on GitHub -- vim/vim, and most GNU Linux package managers are able to install Vim directly, eg...

• Arch based Operating Systems

sudo packman -Syy

sudo packman -S vim

• Debian derived Distributions

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install vim

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Quick Start

Clone this project...

Linux/MacOS

mkdir -vp ~/git/hub/vim-utilities

cd ~/git/hub/vim-utilities

git clone git@github.com:vim-utilities/nudge-lines.git

Install via linked-install.sh script...

./linked-install.sh

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Usage

After visually selecting a line, or range of lines, use the following keyboard shortcuts:

• Ctrl_^k Nudge visual selection up

• Shift_^K Nudge visual selection up and reformat tabs

• Ctrl_^j Nudge visual selection down

• Shift_^J Nudge visual selection down and reformat tabs

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Notes

This repository may not be feature complete and/or fully functional, Pull Requests that add features or fix bugs are certainly welcomed.

Currently to move selected lines more than one line at a time with a single motion requires calling the Nudge_Selection__Laterally() function, eg...

:'<,'> call Nudge_Selection__Laterally(3, 'reformat')

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Contributing

Options for contributing to nudge-lines and vim-utilities

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Forking

Start making a Fork of this repository to an account that you have write permissions for.

• Add remote for fork URL. The URL syntax is git@github.com:<NAME>/<REPO>.git...

cd ~/git/hub/vim-utilities/nudge-lines

git remote add fork git@github.com:<NAME>/nudge-lines.git

• Commit your changes and push to your fork, eg. to fix an issue...

cd ~/git/hub/vim-utilities/nudge-lines


git commit -F- <<'EOF'
:bug: Fixes #42 Issue


**Edits**


- `<SCRIPT-NAME>` script, fixes some bug reported in issue
EOF


git push fork main

Note, the -u option may be used to set fork as the default remote, eg. git push fork main however, this will also default the fork remote for pulling from too! Meaning that pulling updates from origin must be done explicitly, eg. git pull origin main

• Then on GitHub submit a Pull Request through the Web-UI, the URL syntax is https://github.com/<NAME>/<REPO>/pull/new/<BRANCH>

Note; to decrease the chances of your Pull Request needing modifications before being accepted, please check the dot-github repository for detailed contributing guidelines.

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Sponsor

Thanks for even considering it!

With you may sponsor vim-utilities on a repeating basis.

Regardless of if you're able to financially support projects such as nudge-lines that vim-utilities maintains, please consider sharing projects that are useful with others, because one of the goals of maintaining Open Source repositories is to provide value to the community.

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Attribution

• GitHub -- github-utilities/make-readme

• Vi StackExchange -- How to make a vimscript function with optional arguments

• YouTube -- VIM Movements P2: 5 moves to make you better ked

• YouTube -- Vim screencast #65: Moving lines vertically

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License

Vim plugin that nudges visually selected lines up or down
Copyright (C) 2020 S0AndS0

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation, version 3 of the License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

For further details review full length version of AGPL-3.0 License.