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When vim-startify opens, I get the (non-fatal) error shown at the bottom. The error is caused by interaction with the minibufexpl package.

autocommand call DEBUG('-=> BufDelete AutoCmd', 10) |call AutoUpdate(expand(''),bufnr("%"))

Error detected while processing function 18_AutoUpdate..18_CycleBuffer:
line 13:
E85: There is no listed buffer
autocommand call DEBUG('-=> BufDelete ModTrackingListClean AutoCmd for buffer '.bufnr("%"), 10) |call CleanModTrackingList(bufnr("%"))

Hi. Very nice plugin!

Just found that key <Insert> does not start editing from scratch like key i does. Looks like this is due to mapping for this key is missing in autoload/startify.vim. Addition of

  nnoremap <buffer><silent> <insert>      :enew <bar> startinsert<cr>

after similar mapping for i works fine for me.

Cheers, Alexey.

When I open a session I saved with SSave session-name none of the buffers have syntax highlighting. I found this SO answer indicating this has to do with vim sessions, but it assumes you want to save the session in your cwd:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9281438/syntax-highlighting-doesnt-work-after-restore-a-previous-vim-session

Is there any way vim-startify can help here?

@mhinz

Thanks for the Section Headers ! 😀

I wanted to know if this feature could be implemented.
Basically, changing the brackets, around the numbers, from [] to ().

Here are the screenshots:

Before

After:

I had also forked over the repo, and made changes,
Here is the URL, but they are not perfect (The numbers lose the syntax highlighting).
So, I haven't opened up a pull request.

(Also, I'm bad at Vimscript ! 😅)

I'd be happy if you could make these changes !

Thanks !

Hi there,

Recent files, bookmarks and sessions are indexed in numeric order with mappings from 0 onwards.

Here's an alternative arrangement:

a s d f g h j k l ; q w e r t y u i o p 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0

The advantage of this arrangement is that it's closer to the QWERTY home row, and thereby faster to use. You also get 30 mappings that can be used with a single key stroke (more if you use the row below the home row), whereas in the traditional approach, you need two keystrokes after the tenth item (11-99).

This arrangement is used by another plugin called unite.vim, and I've found it pretty handy in practice. Would be great if it were available as an alternative to the numeric index.

Thanks.

commit b6c528b disabled loading in MacVim.

Hi there,

Love your plugin. Any chance you can allow bookmarking of directories as well as files?

Thanks.

The bang disables command mappings. (b63c099)

I use command-t and muscle memory is set to open vim, hit the leader key, and go to the file I'm looking for. I think startify is awesome, but it would be great if I could set "leader" as my empty buffer key so I don't have to hit "e" each time when I'm planning on using command-t which is 90% of the time.

[ Vim 7.4 - Debian Testing ]

I set let g:startify_session_persistence = 1 in my vimrc, called :SSave to save a session of a group of windows - I :qa and then reopened vim and selected the session - this worked.

But I then added another split and called :qa - upon reopening vim and the session the new split wasn't there - the session was in the state it was when I last manually called :SSave

(I also tried with a value of 0 with the same result)

let g:startify_skiplist = [
      \ $VIMRUNTIME .'/doc',
      \ 'bundle/.*/doc',
      \ 'COMMIT_EDITMSG'
      \ ]

will not skip Vim help files under windows.

Hi,I got some problem while using vim-startify with gVim.
My config is this:
let g:startify_session_dir = '~/.vim/.cache/sessions'
let g:startify_show_sessions = 1

The whole vimrc is here: https://gist.github.com/bebound/5845032

1. Get error everytime when try open file list in vim-startify:http://i.imgur.com/UuOFDb8.png
   after press enter, I can open the file
   2 Auto deplicate files you have opend and add "//" with path:
   http://i.imgur.com/MuwQOhN.png
   I just open .reg for 4 times.

I'm trying to apply highlighting to the startify page with:

syntax on
colorscheme Sunburst
hi StartifyBracket ctermfg=100
hi StartifyNumber  ctermfg=215
hi StartifyPath    ctermfg=245
hi StartifySlash   ctermfg=240

But it isn't being applied - the text in the startify page remains white. Do you have any suggestions about where I where I might start looking for the cause?

Because of ggreer/the_silver_searcher#168, ag will ignore all (relevant) files in the startify directory.

You might want to consider only excluding files instead.
But since this is a bug with ag in the end, I can understand if you just close this issue.

When starting Vim with no filenames the Startify splash screen doesn't appear. It works inside the buffer via ':Startify'

I've added the recommended mappings via my vimrc.

This on Ubuntu 12.04 & Vim 7.3.429 & I installed via Vundle...

Hi,
I really like this plugin, but it's not playing well with MiniBufExpl (techlivezheng/vim-plugin-minibufexpl).

1. Start vim
2. Open any recent file from Startify Menu
3. Open startify again (:Startify)

http://d.pr/i/g9nx

The last commands creates two more windows. The top window is the Startify window, and then an empty buffer window in the middle, and finally the first opened file window.

If I disable MiniBufExpl (or set MiniBufExpl to open on start), then Startify behaves as expected and doesn't create any new windows

Please see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9281438/syntax-highlighting-doesnt-work-after-restore-a-previous-vim-session

I had the same problem

Hey,

I think it'd be wise to ignore .git directories by default. At minimum the COMMIT_EDITMSG files. For example, this is what I see:

   [2]  ~/code/github/dotfiles/vimrc
   [3]  ~/code/github/dotfiles/.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG
   [4]  ~/code/datadog/dd-agent/test.py
   [5]  ~/code/datadog/dd-agent/.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG
   [6]  ~/code/datadog/dd-agent/checks.d/gunicorn.py

I know this can be configured, I just think it's a sane default to ignore the commit message files. And thanks for the helpful plugin.

running vi instead of vim does not show startify menu.

below is the resolution of vi -> vim via /etc/alternatives. They both end up being the same executable /usr/local/bin/vim.

Oddly vim-startify menu only shows when running vim. not vi.

% which vi
/usr/local/bin/vi

% which vim
/usr/local/bin/vim

% ls -la /etc/alternatives/vi
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jul 13 15:25 /etc/alternatives/vi -> /usr/local/bin/vim*

% ls -la /etc/alternatives/vim
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jul 15 15:06 /etc/alternatives/vim -> /usr/local/bin/vim*

% ls -la /usr/local/bin/vi
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Nov 7 2012 /usr/local/bin/vi -> /etc/alternatives/vi*

% ls -la /usr/local/bin/vim
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2259416 Jul 12 13:01 /usr/local/bin/vim*

(this issue cross-posted at vimwiki/vimwiki#18)

Startify is great! vimwiki also great!

but like chocolate and peanutbutter.. what if..

What if the header or footer of the startify page could be a startify-header.wiki or startify-footer.wiki?
If you could immediately edit a free-form text launch-page, with links, tables, what have you, wouldn't that be wicked?

I see you allow saving and loading of sessions. Tim Pope has a plugin to work in that direction: https://github.com/tpope/vim-obsession

Have you considered using it?

When trying to open a file which has spaces in its path, I get an error "Only one file name allowed".

This patch fixed the error for me:

diff --git a/autoload/startify.vim b/autoload/startify.vim
index 698fe67..ac6c71c 100644
--- a/autoload/startify.vim
+++ b/autoload/startify.vim
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ function! startify#get_session_names_as_string(lead, ...) abort
 endfunction

 function! startify#escape(path) abort
-  return !exists('+shellslash') || &shellslash ? a:path : escape(a:path, '\')
+  return !exists('+shellslash') || &shellslash ? escape(a:path, ' ') : escape(a:path, '\ ')
 endfunction

 function! startify#get_sep() abort

i use fugitive and gitv a lot, and frequently i'll start up vim and then do a :Gstatus or :Gitv to look up on git related stuff. however, the commit 53019cc broke this workflow; specifically, the enew call.

i deleted that line and don't notice anything funky...and the commands started working again.

I would like to put "Vim" text as ascii-art before all that startify adds. Is it somehow possible?

 __      ___             ______ ____  
 \ \    / (_)           |____  |___ \ 
  \ \  / / _ _ __ ___       / /  __) |
   \ \/ / | | '_ ` _ \     / /  |__ < 
    \  /  | | | | | | |   / /   ___) |
     \/   |_|_| |_| |_|  /_(_) |____/ 

There are only two use cases how I use my Vim:

1. I use bookmarks from Startify,
2. I ignore start screen and press <C-p>;

When I open a new file in current tab using CtrlP, it opens as a new split. Then I manually need to close it.

Any idea how can I fix my problem?

Inspired by tips.vim (https://github.com/yesmeck/tips.vim), wouldn't it be a neat thing to have a (optional) line in the starify page (or header, or footer) that displayed vim tips?

Jumping to a file, e.g. "0" from the startup screen, when I have "set shortmess=a" in my .vimrc, causes a status line print:

:edit ~/dotfiles/.vimrc | call 41_check_user_options()

which then waits for me to hit enter. I've even verified that this still occurs when that is the only option set in my .vimrc.

When starting Vim is showing the follow error message:

Error detected while processing function startify#insane_in_the_membrane:
line 76
E216: No such group or event: <nomodeline> startify User

The following code is causing the error (vim-startify/autoload/startify.vim):

doautocmd <nomodeline> startify User

It would be awesome if the list of recent files could be optionally filtered to only list results from the current directory.

After starting vim, if startify has run and I open a file through another plugin (like Ctrl-P or NERDTree), that file will be opened in a split instead of replacing the startify buffer.

It would be nice if startify could chdir to the repository root directory if it can find one rather than chdiring to the directory the file is in.

I don't know how hard it would be, but I guess given you also work on signify it wouldn't be too hard.

It would be really great to have headers for sections, eg.

[e]

Recent Files

[0] ~/repos/puppet/.gitignore
[1] ~/repos/puppet/modules/user/manifests/init.pp
[2] ~/.vimrc
[3] ~/repos/puppet/manifests/nodes/dev.pp

Current Directory

[4] puppet.conf
[5] .gitignore

[q]

It would be nice if there was a way to filter recent files, I use fugitive so most of the recent files are COMMIT_EDITMSG which is pretty useless.

It would be cool if the recent files in current dir and subdirs could be displayed. Such a list could be generated by a command similar to this one:

find . -type f -not -path "./.git/*" -printf '%T@ %p\n' | sort -n | cut -f2- -d" "

Great plugin!

Works like a charme in command line vim, but not in gvim? any ideas why? Does it conflict with nerdtree opening by default?

I added a customer header, but Startify scrolls down and clips the header. I thought that maybe my scrolloff=3 was causing issues, but when I removed scrolloff, the header couldn't be seen at all!

VIM - Vi IMproved 7.3 (2010 Aug 15, compiled Apr 29 2013 18:22:21)
Included patches: 1-918

This is how vim session starts:

If I scroll up (Ctrl-y), the header is there:

Not sure when this started happening, but when I open vim startify, with no other plugins installed, my unnamed register (and system clipboard) are emptied.

I haven't done a bisect to find the issue, but I do know that it doesn't happen when I checkout a857d83.

The custom header is lovely, but what if i want an ASCII art unicorn below the file list and bookmarks? It would be cool to have the option of setting a custom footer in addition to the header.

I'm trying to do fortune | cowsay as footer.
let g:startify_custom_footer = system("fortune | cowsay")

However, that just prints it in one line. How could I get it to work with set paste?

0 doesn't really flow well with my thought process since it's at the far right of the keyboard. It'd be nice to have the index start at 1. 0 could still be used, it'd just be the 10th option.

Thank you.

I have a series of folders that I often work on, it would be nice to be able to either display a series of predefined folders, or perhaps keep a log of various folder I have been in, and display those as usable goto's

I get this when starting an empty buffer:

No idea what causes it, but it shows up even when I use a clean configuration (nothing except this plugin, nocompatible, and enabling filetype syntax stuff).

Is there a way to do this or is the file list tied to Vim registers?

subject says it all :-)

I'm having a weird issue with startify and command-t, when I open vim I have to press e to go to an empty buffer before calling command-t or when I choose the file vim will close.

I was wondering if there was a way to get startify to close if I use CtrlP to find a file. At the moment it opens in a vertical split which it would not do if I had an empty document up. It should really replace the contents of the window.

I'm not sure if this is related to CtrlP instead of startify though.

Could u please make a setting so that its possible to set overwrite always (so we don't have to type y(es) every time :) )

Thanks

Great plugin!

But this does not work in cterm vim.

VIM - Vi IMproved 7.4 (2013 Aug 10, compiled Jan 13 2014 22:47:09)
MacOS X (unix) version
Included patches: 1-52

my vimrc is there.
https://github.com/zeero/dotfiles/blob/master/vim/vimrc

when I use Windows Gvim, Startify can work with same vimrc.

What is wrong?

More people install this plugin, less will see the default message to help children in Uganda. Thus, your plugin kills children.

:{-

Startify allows for opening files in buffers, split, and vertical splits. Any possibility to add Tabs as well, using the 't' key?