Vim Sequence-diagram Preview

• Intro
• Installation
• Usage
• License

Intro

A Vim plugin for previewing sequence diagram in a browser. It's inspired by vim-markdown-preview and JS Sequence Diagram.

JS Sequence Diagram is awesome! And its online editing feature is cool as well. However, there're 2 drawbacks:

1. Online editing is opt to be lost, especially with an unexpected browser fresh or history-back.
2. You have to copy&paste between the online web page and your text editor repeatedly for updating/preview.

This vim plugin helps you handle the issues above, write your sequence diagram description in vim, press a hotkey to preview it in browser!

Installation

• With Pathogen: Place vim-sequnce-diagram/ in .vim/bundle/.
• With Vundle:
  • Add Plugin 'xavierchow/vim-sequence-diagram' to your .vimrc.
  • Launch vim and run :PluginInstall

Usage

File extension

This plugin only applies to files with .seq or .sequence file extension, that means it has nearly no performance impact on other file types.

Note: Make sure you have renamed the file name with proper extension.

Keymap for preview

The default keymap is <leader>t, it brings up a browser window and shows the sequence diagram for you. You can also define your keymap in vimrc.

nmap <unique> <leader>t <Plug>GenerateDiagram 

JS Sequence Diagram Theme

Currently there're mainly 2 themes with js-sequence-diagrams, hand drawn and simple. You can add the following line into your vimrc for using hand drawn theme, set it to 0 or remove the line for simple theme.

let g:generate_diagram_theme_hand = 1

Download as SVG or PNG

Use the buttons at the bottom to download the diagram as SVG or PNG.

License

MIT