Viminette - VIM builtin 42 norminette ✅❎

A vim plugin for builtin 42 norm error highlighting.
No need to switch away from VIM to check your file norm anymore !

Installation

Norminette

The plugin runs the 42 norminette executable installed on your system.
If you don't have it installed yet, get it at 42 official norminette, else it just won't work.

Plugins manager

You will also need a VIM plugin manager.
I personnally use vim-plug, you can install it following their instructions.

Viminette plugin

Clone the viminette repository in your file system...

git clone git@github.com:Hnogared/viminette_VIM-42-norminette.git

...and plug it in your .vimrc file in your home repository (create it if needed)

[...]
call plug#begin()

Plug '<path_to_viminette_directory>'

call plug#end()
[...]

You are now good to go ! 👍

Usage

Tip

For more detailed informations on how to use the plugin functionalities, you can run :help viminette in your VIM editor to open the documentation.

1. Key maps

Enabling/disabling norm highlighting

<CTRL-m> switch ON/OFF norm highlighting

Jumping between norm error lines

<CTRL-n> jump to the closest norm error line after the cursor line.

<CTRL-b> jump to the closest norm error line before the cursor line.

Opening the error lines popup menu

<CTRL-k> open a popup menu at the center of the window for the user to select an error line to jump to.

2. Commands

Enabling norm highlighting

:Norminette

Turn on norm highlighting if the shell norminette command call was successfull.
The highlighting now refreshes after each file save (VIM's BufWritePost event) until turned off or an error occurs.

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:Norminette -RCheckDefine

Turn on norm highlighting with the -RCheckDefine flag.

Disabling norm highlighting

:NoNorminette

Turn off norm highlighting if it was initially turned on.
The highlighting is hidden and doesn't refresh anymore after each file save until turned on again.

Opening the error lines popup menu

Important

This command only does something if norm error lines are currently displayed in the file.

:NormErrorMenu

Open a popup menu at the center of the window for the user to select an error line to jump to.

Jumping between norm error lines

Important

These commands only do something if norm error lines are currently displayed in the file.

:NextSign

Jump to the closest error line in the file after the cursor line. Jump to the first one if none is present after the cursor.

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:PrevSign

Jump to the closest error line before the cursor line. Jump to the last one if none is present before the cursor.

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:NextSignCycle

Cycle through the error lines from top to bottom. Jump back to the first one from the last one.

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:PrevSignCycle

Cycle through the error lines from bottom to top. Jump back to the last one from the first one

Status line

The plugin's status can be displayed on the status bar.
The viminette#getNormStatus() function call returns the status of the norm highlighting.

• 0 = norm highlighting is turned OFF
• 1 = norm highlighting is turned ON and there are no norm errors in the file
• 2 = norm highlighting is turned ON and there are norm errors in the file

This status can be used to update VIM's status line depending on the norm status on your .vimrc file :

" Example on how to implement different colored indicators in the status line depending on the norm status
[...]
hi NormOff ctermbg=234 guibg=#616161
hi NormOn ctermbg=40 guibg=#00FF00
hi NormError ctermbg=196 guibg=#FF0000

set statusline = ...
set statusline += %{%viminette#getNormStatus()==0?'%#NormOff# ':''%}
set statusline += %{%viminette#getNormStatus()==1?'%#NormOn# ':''%}
set statusline += %{%viminette#getNormStatus()==2?'%#NormError# ':''%}
set statusline += ...
[...]

" Example on how to implement different colored indicators in the status line depending on the norm status
" with a function
" This won't work on older versions
[...]
hi NormOff ctermbg=234 guibg=#616161
hi NormOn ctermbg=40 guibg=#00FF00
hi NormError ctermbg=196 guibg=#FF0000

function! MyStatusLine() abort
  let res = ...
  let res .= '%{%viminette#getNormStatus()==0?"%#NormOff# ":""%}'
  let res .= '%{%viminette#getNormStatus()==1?"%#NormOn# ":""%}'
  let res .= '%{%viminette#getNormStatus()==2?"%#NormError# ":""%}'
  let res .= ...
  return res
endfunction

set statusline=%!MyStatusLine()
[...]

^{What an implementation from above could look like on a VIM status line (the colored rectangle shows the norm status the other stuff is only for display purposes)}

Special thanks

Thank you Leizar06001 for the name idea. Go check out their cool projects !