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Ⅰ. 插件描述

Automatic input method switching for vim

Ⅱ. 基本信息

创建日期：  2017-08-03 使用用户：  6 Github星：  79 插件作者：  Ryan Lue

Ⅲ. 安装方法

使用Vundle管理器安装

在你的.vimrc下添加:

Plugin 'rlue/vim-barbaric'

… 然后在Vim中运行以下命令:

:source %
:PluginInstall

对于Vundle版本 < 0.10.2，请用上面的Bundle替换Plugin。

使用NeoBundle管理器安装

在你的.vimrc下添加:

NeoBundle 'rlue/vim-barbaric'

… 然后在Vim中运行以下命令:

:source %
:NeoBundleInstall

使用VimPlug管理器安装

在你的.vimrc下添加:

Plug 'rlue/vim-barbaric'

… 然后在Vim中运行以下命令:

:source %
:PlugInstall

使用Pathogen管理器安装

在终端中运行以下命令:

cd ~/.vim/bundle
git clone https://github.com/rlue/vim-barbaric

Ⅳ. 文档说明

⌨️ Barbaric

vim + non-Latin input = pain. Barbaric is the cure.

Why?

Normal mode mappings (_e.g.,_ h / j / k / l) are all 8-bit ASCII characters. That means that when you want to work on a file in Russian (or Greek or Chinese), you’ve got to switch back to English (or Spanish or German) every time you leave Insert mode.

Barbaric detects which input method is active when you first launch vim, then again any time you leave Input mode, and switches between them for you automatically.

No, I mean why ‘Barbaric’?

From Wikipedia (emphasis mine):

The Greeks used the term barbarian for all non-Greek-speaking peoples,
including the Egyptians, Persians, Medes and Phoenicians, emphasizing their
otherness, because the language they spoke sounded to Greeks like gibberish
represented by the sounds “bar bar bar”....

The Romans adapted the term to refer to anything non-Roman.

Vim doesn’t play nicely with non-Latin scripts; i.e., input languages of non-Roman origin. Ipso facto, this is a plugin for barbarians.

Supported IMEs

• fcitx
• ibus

• macOS (requires xkbswitch-macosx)

  # Install via:
  $ curl -o /usr/local/bin/xkbswitch https://raw.githubusercontent.com/myshov/xkbswitch-macosx/master/bin/xkbswitch

If you need support for another IME or input system, consider:

• built-in support for X11 and MS-Windows IMEs (:help mbyte-XIM / :help mbyte-IME),
• built-in multi-byte keymaps (:help mbyte-keymap / explained here), or
• vim-xkbswitch.

Installation

There are lots of vim plugin managers out there. I like vim-plug.

Usage

Barbaric should work out of the box provided that whenever you launch vim, the active input method is the one you want to use in Normal mode. If that’s not the case, be sure to set the first option in the configuration section below.

Known bugs

On macOS, in certain input methods (notably Chinese and Korean), switching windows away from vim and back can cause xkbswitch to malfunction. The problem is described here.

Configuration

To change the default behavior of _Barbaric_, modify the lines below and add them to your .vimrc.

" The input method for Normal mode (as defined by `xkbswitch -g` or `ibus engine`)
let g:barbaric_default = 0

" The scope where alternate input methods persist (buffer, window, tab, global)
let g:barbaric_scope = 'buffer'

" Forget alternate input method after n seconds in Normal mode (disabled by default)
" Useful if you only need IM persistence for short bursts of active work.
let g:barbaric_timeout = -1

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright © 2017 Ryan Lue