vim backbone

Collection of Backbone VIM snippets and templates.

Installation

Install for pathogen

cd ~/.vim/bundle
git clone git://github.com/mklabs/vim-backbone.git

Documentation

work in progess

What it does

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vim helpfile generated from backbonejs.org (:h backbone)

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Snipmates snippets. When filetype is set to javascript, type view<tab>, model<tab> or router<tab>

In insert mode, in a file where filetype=javascript, typing view followed by <tab> will expand to the following snippet:

var MyView = Backbone.View.extend({
  el: '',
  tagName: '',

  events: {

  },

  initialize: function () {

  },

  render: function () {

  }
});

Hitting tab again will iterate through snippets placeholders. See :h snipMate and :h snipMate-placeholders for more infos.

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Backbone specific omnicompleter.

:h new-omni-completion.

This could also be called "intellisense", but that is a trademark.

Should auto-complete whenever the text in front of the cursor includes a model (this.model triggers the match). Same for collection, router and view.

It works by inspecting the Backbone.Model.prototype object when completing against a match that triggers model completion. It's not as accurate as it would be in your devtool but should be pretty close.

Use CTRL-X CTRL-U in Insert mode to start the completion, when the cursor in in front of the following:

model.
router.
controller.
view.

The plugin also map the <C-Space> (Ctrl+space) to trigger the same omnicompletion.

In insert mode, in a file where filetype=javascript, typing modelor model. followed by either Ctrl+X Ctrl+U or Ctrl+Space will pop the following menu:

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What it should do

• vim templates on BufNewFile. Should this be node-based with mustache like templates, and intelligently parse current filepath / app structure to know which template it should use (eg. opening a new file with something like */models/* or a filename with model in it should trigger the model template.

• Ease navigation of the Backbone directory structure. eg. easy jumping between files, like model to test, view to template, template to helper, etc.

• Enhanced syntax highlighting, should this be useful

• Scripts wrapper around the scripts in the script directory of the Backbone app. A limited amount of completion should be supported

• Possibly integration and wrappers to build tool

• should have special logic / behaviour if a spec/ or test/ directory is detected.

• Commands to generate things. a :Bgenerate model Foo should create a foo controller and edits app/model/foo.js, optionally would be nice to have the matching test generated app/test/foo.js with basic assertions.