Tips and tricks

Various tips and tricks for scnvim!

Many tips are presented in autocmd fashion so you can just copy and paste them to your init.vim. If you don't want to use autocmd for configuration look here instead.

Use an augroup to avoid autocmd build up.

Example augroup

" NOTE: the augroup called scnvim is reserved by the plugin
augroup scnvim_settings
  autocmd FileType supercollider setlocal ...
augroup END

Settings

Indendation

autocmd FileType supercollider setlocal tabstop=4 softtabstop=4 shiftwidth=4

Wrap the post window output

autocmd FileType scnvim setlocal wrap

Mappings

Map any piece of SuperCollider code to a key

autocmd FileType supercollider nnoremap <silent><buffer> <F2> :call scnvim#sclang#send('100.rand')<CR>

Map any piece of SuperCollider code to a key (silent version)

autocmd FileType supercollider nnoremap <silent><buffer> <F3> :call scnvim#sclang#send_silent('100.rand')<CR>

Custom mapping for block evaluation

autocmd FileType supercollider nmap <Space> <Plug>(scnvim-send-block)

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after/ftplugin/supercollider.vim

First get the location of your config directory.

:echo stdpath('config')

In your shell, cd to that directory and create after/ftplugin/supercollider.vim then add settings using setlocal.