itch.vim

A micro-plugin for opening [Scratch] buffers in Vim.

Introduction

Vim's [Scratch] buffers are very useful, but opening them is non-intuitive.

:help special-buffers defines a scratch buffer as:

:setlocal buftype=nowrite
:setlocal bufhidden=delete
:setlocal noswapfile

This plugin abstracts these details away behind a more friendly interface.

Commands

Command	Description
:ScratchSplit	Open a [Scratch] buffer in a new split.
:ScratchVSplit	Open a [Scratch] buffer in a new vsplit.
:ScratchTab	Open a [Scratch] buffer in a new tab.

Usage

Used independently, all commands will create a new, empty [Scratch] buffer:

:ScratchVSplit

Equally, they can be chained with other commands (particularly :read) to fill the new buffer with content:

:ScratchTab | read !grep -r foo bar/

Installation

Vim 8 on Unix

mkdir -p ~/.vim/pack/git-plugins/start
git clone https://github.com/hamish-miller/itch.git ~/.vim/pack/git-plugins/start/itch

Contributing

Issues and Pull Requests welcome.

Issues - Please provide as much detail as possible.

Pull Requests - Please aim to keep this micro-plugin simple and lightweight.

License

MIT License