Ugbi

Ugbi is a Vim plugin that provides critical unimplemented functionally that some people (only me) say is the best plugin ever developed. While I was perusing the Vim documentation for autocommands, I discovered UserGettingBored. I immediately knew something was wrong because it is impossible for anyone to get bored while using Vim. After many sleepless nights, I attempted to trigger the event by repeating the same key 42 times. The anticipation grew upon each click llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll then, as I originally expected, nothing happened. This further solidified that it is indeed impossible for a user to get bored in Vim.

But wait, there was a second line in the documentation. It said Just kidding! :-). It was at that moment that I realized someone meant to implement Samuel L. Jackson in the vimaverse. It has been a grueling 46 years, but the hard work has finally paid off. I'd like to thank my sponsor, that random person on Reddit r/vim.

                        UGBI - UserGettingBored Improved

                              by Mike Smith
                    Ugbi is open source and freely distributable

                             Help poor children in Uganda!
             type  :help iccf                     for information

             type  :q                             to exit
             type  :help UserGettingBored or <F1> for on-line help
    
    
    
    
                                                        UserGettingBored
UserGettingBored                When the user presses the same key 42 times.
                                Just kidding! :-)
                                

Demo

Setup

Installation

Install using your favorite package manager, or use Vim's built-in package support:

mkdir -p ~/.vim/pack/mkesmithgh/start
cd ~/.vim/pack/mkesmithgh/start
git clone https://github.com/mikesmithgh/ugbi.git
vim -u NONE -c "helptags ugbi/doc" -c q

Using vim-plug

Plug 'mikesmithgh/ugbi'

Using Vundle

Plugin 'mikesmithgh/ugbi'

For the best experience, use VIM version 9.0 or greater compiled with the +termguicolors feature.
Use a terminal that supports truecolor and enable the termguicolors option in your Vim configuration.

set termguicolors

Compatibility

Ugbi is compatible with Vim 8.0 and greater. If you are using a version less than 8.0 then the plugin will not work.

Usage

Only alphanumeric [a-zA-Z0-9] keys in insert mode trigger a count that is used by this plugin. This is done by remapping the keys in insert mode to trigger the plugin. To trigger the plugin, open a buffer and repeat the same character 42 times in insert mode.

Commands

Command	Action
:UgbiEnable	Enable the plugin and setup keymappings to intercept alphanumeric characters in insert mode.
:UgbiDisable	Disable the plugin and remove keymappings that intercept alphanumeric characters in insert mode.

Customization

" Enable the plugin
" Enabled by default, set to 0 to disable and 1 to enable
" After setting to disabled, you will need to run the comman UgbiDisable or restart Vim
let g:ugbi_enabled = 1

" Show the current number of repeated characters while typing
" Disabled by default, set to 0 to disable and 1 to enable
let g:ugbi_show_count = 0

Ackowledgements

• Samuel L. Jackson - The inspiration, couldn't have done it without you Sammy!
• Tim Pope - Excellent reference for Vim plug-in development.
• artem - Used to generate ASCII art in truecolor.
• text-image.com - Initially used to render ASCII art but size of art was too large to fit in a normal sized screen.
• baleia.nvim - Plugin worked perfectly for highlighting. However, it is only available on Neovim. I was able to reference nvim_buf_add_highlight() to discover similar functionaly in Vim matchaddpos() to positionally highlight instead of using a regex.
• Colorizer - Initially attempted highlighting with this plugin. Although it worked, there was bad lag due to regex matching.
• AutoComplPop - Plugin referenced for intercepting keystrokes.