A vim plugin for supercollider.

This is based of the original scvim by Alex Norman.

Features

• Syntax Highlighting
• A faked REPL via the terminal
• Code Navigation (jump to definitions) via a global tags file "~/.sctags"
• Auto-Completion of known words via tag completion
• Launch the SuperCollider QT Help System

It is highly recommended to use a plugin manager to install scvim. Most common ones are:

• pathogen
• vundle
• vim-plug

If your SuperCollider version was not build with vim support (i.e. if the class SCVim does not exist), you'll need to either symlink sc/SCVim.sc somewhere where SuperCollider can find it (typically that would be in Platform.userExtensionDir from within SuperCollider), either add (the absolute path to) scvim/sc to includePaths: in your sclang_conf.yaml.

The rest should work automatically for mac users.

On Linux and other unix systems the vim variable g:sclangTerm should be set in your .vimrc file to let the plugin know which terminal application should it use for launching sclang. Please, read on the next section for more details.

Also, if Ruby is not installed on your linux system, install it with:

sudo apt-get install ruby or sudo yum install ruby

Path to the tags file export SCVIM_TAGFILE=/your/path this defaults to ~/.sctags

The following variables are available for configuration in your .vimrc file:

• g:sclangTerm: Command to open a terminal window. Defaults to "open -a Terminal.app" on OSX, and "x-terminal-emulator -e $SHELL -ic" on Linux. On some Linux systems this value may need to changed.
• g:sclangPipeApp: Absolute path to the plugin start_pipe script. Defaults to "~/.vim/bundle/scvim/bin/start_pipe". Change it if you have installed the plugin in other location.
• g:sclangDispatcher: Absolute path to the plugin sc_dispatcher script. Defaults to "~/.vim/bundle/scvim/bin/sc_dispatcher". Change it if you have installed the plugin in other location.

Example .vimrc line for gnome-terminal users:

let g:sclangTerm = "gnome-terminal -x $SHELL -ic"

If for some reason vim can't find the path to the two launch scripts start_pipe and sc_dispatcher you can set them manually in your .vimrc:

let g:sclangPipeApp     = "~/.vim/bundle/scvim/bin/start_pipe"
let g:sclangDispatcher  = "~/.vim/bundle/scvim/bin/sc_dispatcher"

To start open a file with the right extension :e foo.sc(d) Enter :SClangStart and a terminal should open with a running sclang session.

See the commands reference for general usage.

ctags support:

run :SCtags from vim or SCVim.generateTagsFile() from sclang

This gives you a couple of things:

• You can jump to any known class or method
• You get tags completion with ctrl-x ctrl-] (use the vim supertab plugin if this is too bothersome to type)

• :SClangStart launch sclang
• :SClangRecompile recompile
• :SClangKill what it says

in normal mode:

• <leader>sk recompiles the sc library
• K on a word opens the corresponding helpfile inside the supercollider help
• ^] jumps to a tagfile (this works for classes only so far but will be extended)

in normal/insert mode:

• F5 to execute a block of code scvim will attempt to find the outermost bracket
• F6 to execute the current line of code
• F12 is a hard stop