created by

Christian J. Robinson

script type

utility

description

This is a set of HTML/XHTML mappings and menus for Vim 9 or later. The mappings will be local to the buffer so they won't interfere if you edit other files in the same Vim session. The macros automatically insert a tag and position the cursor at the logical insert point.  For example, in insert the mapping ";ah" inserts <A HREF=""></A> and leaves the cursor between the double quotes.  If you were to visually highlight some text then type ";ah" it would wrap the tag around the text.  For example:         some text Becomes:         <A HREF="">some text</A> With the cursor positioned between the double quotes in insert mode. Or if you used ";aH" instead:         <A HREF="some text"></A> With the cursor positioned between the > and the < in insert mode. There are many other features, such as a configurable template inserted with the ";html" normal mode macro, browser remote control mappings, etc. See https://christianrobinson.name/assets/programming/faq.html for frequently asked questions. See https://christianrobinson.name/assets/programming/HTML.html to preview the help file.

install details

Note: If you have an old installation of this plugin, you need to remove its files first or they may prevent the packed version from loading. Put ":filetype plugin on" in your vimrc, then extract HTML.zip in your runtime directory (~/.vim for Unix, %USERPROFILE%\vimfiles for Windows; see ":help 'runtimepath'"). Alternatively you may use git. See: https://github.com/Heptite/HTML See https://christianrobinson.name/HTML for more information, newer versions, and extra files.

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package	script version	date	Vim version	user	release notes
HTML.zip	1.5.0	2025-03-08	9.1	Christian J. Robinson	Significant changes, too many to list, some breaking. Please read the documentation.
HTML.zip	1.3.6	2023-09-11	9.0	Christian J. Robinson	- File missing from zip archive
HTML.zip	1.3.5	2023-05-08	9.0	Christian J. Robinson	- ;sN mapping for a <span> tag without attributes - Several internal changes, tweaks, bug fixes
HTML.zip	1.3.0	2022-07-27	9.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Refactoring - Change logic for handling visual mappings
HTML.zip	1.2.5	2022-07-07	9.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Fix :HTMLabout, plus documentation fixes (Ivan Pešić) - Try catching some errors to prevent aborting of mappings which could cause options to be unset
HTML.zip	1.2.4	2022-06-29	9.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Update minimum Vim version requirement to 9.0 now that Vim9 has been released
HTML.zip	1.2.3	2022-02-28	9.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Fix character entity conversion mappings
HTML.zip	1.2.2	2022-02-03	9.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Update to latest Vim9 syntax - Try to fix visual mapping issues
HTML.zip	1.2.1	2022-01-19	9.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Small update with tweaks and to reflect the new vim9script syntax
HTML.zip	1.2.0	2022-01-16	9.0	Christian J. Robinson	- More refactoring - Under the hood optimizations
HTML.zip	1.1.16	2022-01-07	9.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Update to use Vim9's revised import syntax
HTML.zip	1.1.15	2021-09-26	9.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Tweaks, and speed improvements - Some plugin commands are now local to the buffer
HTML.zip	1.1.14	2021-09-03	9.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Support Brave browser - Image tag WIDTHxHEIGHT updater now supports a couple more image types
HTML.zip	1.1.13	2021-08-30	9.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Some bugs fixed - Some refactoring - Minor feature additions
HTML.zip	1.1.11	2021-08-22	9.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Fixed a bug that crept in while trying to fix other bugs. - Code tweaks.
HTML.zip	1.1.10	2021-08-18	9.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Fix more bugs. - Simplify some code.
HTML.zip	1.1.9	2021-08-16	9.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Loading bug fixed. - More entities. - Moved config variables to a unified dictionary.
HTML.zip	1.1.8	2021-08-14	9.0	Christian J. Robinson	- More bugs were found and squashed. - Moved more data to json.
HTML.zip	1.1.7	2021-08-13	9.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Some bugs crept in during the change over to json. - Code improvements.
HTML.zip	1.1.6	2021-08-12	9.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Fixed a serious bug loading the entities. - Also load the tag mappings and menus via json.
HTML.zip	1.1.5	2021-08-11	9.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Remove unused code. - Make defining HTML entities with menus easier. - Add an about command.
HTML.zip	1.1.4	2021-08-10	9.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Separate constants to another file - Rewrote the color selector code to use Vim's popups - Other small changes
HTML.zip	1.1.3	2021-08-07	9.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Allow switching between upper and lowercase tags. - Fix menu handling bug.
HTML.zip	1.1.2	2021-08-06	9.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Config option to allow the menu to be placed in another menu. - Add more documentation tags.
HTML.zip	1.1.1	2021-08-04	9.0	Christian J. Robinson	- More smart tags - More bug fixes - Overhaul some more code
HTML.zip	1.1.0	2021-08-01	9.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Overhaul smart tag code, allowing many more tags to be "smart" - Optimizations - Documentation updates
HTML.zip	1.0.18	2021-07-30	9.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Bug fixes - Improve code for flexibility - ;mi mapping now works in more contexts
HTML.zip	1.0.17	2021-07-28	9.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Bug fixes and many code improvements
HTML.zip	1.0.16	2021-07-27	9.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Better character entity conversion. - Bug fixes.
HTML.zip	1.0.14	2021-07-24	9.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Add "links" to available textmode browsers - Use system menu.vim ToolBar items where applicable - More refactoring and internal code improvements - Bug fixes
HTML.zip	1.0.11	2021-07-21	9.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Allow lynx and w3m to be opened in a :terminal - Now available on github
HTML.zip	1.0.8	2021-07-18	9.0	Christian J. Robinson	Some refactoring and logic changes, very little in the way of feature additions
HTML.zip	1.0.5	2020-11-09	9.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Support more tags, including Server-Side Includes - Many tweaks and bug fixes
HTML.zip	1.0.0	2020-10-22	9.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Major refactor, now only supports Vim 9 (or a very recently patched version of Vim 8 if you have it)
HTML.zip	0.44.4	2020-10-14	8.2	Christian J. Robinson	- Bug fixes
HTML.zip	0.44.3	2020-10-11	8.2	Christian J. Robinson	- Transition to Vim 8.2 and begin transition to the upcoming Vim 9.0
HTML.zip	0.42.6	2020-02-21	7.2	Christian J. Robinson	- Add <button> (;bn) tag, which is used by some frameworks
HTML.zip	0.42.5	2020-02-03	7.2	Christian J. Robinson	- A few more HTML 5 tag mappings - Housekeeping and bug fixes
HTML.zip	0.42.4	2020-02-02	7.2	Christian J. Robinson	- Added super- and sub-script character entities - Documented tags that are not HTML 5 compatible - Internal housekeeping
HTML.zip	0.42.2	2020-01-31	7.2	Christian J. Robinson	- More HTML 5 tag mappings - Various tweaks and fixes
HTML.zip	0.42.1	2020-01-30	7.2	Christian J. Robinson	- Default browser mapping for Unix wasn't working
HTML.zip	0.42.0	2020-01-28	7.2	Christian J. Robinson	- Add support for specific browsers under Windows - Several tweaks and fixes
HTML.zip	0.41.2	2020-01-27	7.2	Christian J. Robinson	- Drop support for obsolete browsers - More HTML 5 mappings
HTML.zip	0.41.1	2020-01-26	7.2	Christian J. Robinson	- Add a few HTML 5 mappings -- more on request - Make certain tags and the default template valid HTML for modern browsers (using CSS)
HTML.zip	0.40.2	2020-01-26	7.2	Christian J. Robinson	- Add left/right single and double quote character entities - Add mapping for HTML 5 doctype
HTML.zip	0.40.1	2012-11-26	7.2	Christian J. Robinson	- More fraction entities added - globpath() → findfile() for compatibility with Vundle (Leif Arne Storset)
HTML.zip	0.39.4	2011-10-01	7.2	Christian J. Robinson	- Added:   + <param> (;pm) mapping   + • (&*) mapping - Fixed:   + Slight problem with the <noscript> (;ns) mapping   + HTMLnextInsertPoint() (tab mapping) might not properly jump to the end of a closing comment dilimeter. (Samuel Ferencik)
HTML.zip	0.39.1	2011-08-04	7.2	Christian J. Robinson	- Character entity conversion mappings can now encode to &#x..; hexadecimal strings, and decode them as well (Samuel Ferencik) - Roman numeral character entity mappings added (Samuel Ferencik)
HTML.zip	0.38.1	2011-06-02	7.2	Christian J. Robinson	- Euro entity mapping and menu (Samuel Ferencik) - HTMLnextInsertPoint() sometimes didn't restore options (Samuel Ferencik) - Entire scriptencoding has been changed to utf8 instead of partially latin1
HTML.zip	0.37.1	2011-04-21	7.2	Christian J. Robinson	- Determining the Firefox remote command wasn't working properly (Fr. Robert Bower) - Fr. Robert Bower added support for Google Chrome on Unix/Linux (This script _might_ run okay on Vim 7.0/7.1, but it has not been tested -- 7.3 is preferred.)
HTML.zip	0.36.4	2010-08-07	7.0	Christian J. Robinson	- More character entity mappings - Minor changes
HTML.zip	0.36.3	2010-07-01	7.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Various minor fixes
HTML.zip	0.36.1	2009-10-28	7.0	Christian J. Robinson	- b:no_html_maps can be set like g:no_html_maps - Israel Chauca Fuentes provided MacOS browser control code - minor fixes and changes
HTML.zip	0.35.1	2008-06-15	7.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Try to safely escape shell commands
HTML.zip	0.35	2008-06-10	7.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Added:   + The colors in the color menu can be displayed in a split window under the GUI, and colors can be selected from the display (;# mapping and :ColorSelect command)   + g:no_html_map_override can be set to prevent the plugin from overriding already existing mappings, and now warning messages are printed when overriding takes place   + g:no_html_maps can be set to a regular expression to tell the plugin not to define matching mappings   + g:html_map_entity_leader can be used to define the character entity mapping leader--works like g:html_map_leader   + MangleImageTag.vim (used by the ;mi mapping) no longer moves the cursor   + Miscellaneous minor additions - Miscellaneous fixes - Significant refactoring to make maintaining the plugin easier
HTML.zip	0.34	2008-05-07	7.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Removed code that was supporting Vim 6, thus:   + MangleImageTag() used by ;mi mapping should now always compute correct size   + Various code was simplified
HTML.zip	0.33.1	2008-04-29	6.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Character entities for arrows and the Greek alphabet added - This is the last version that will support Vim 6
HTML.zip	0.32.2	2008-04-13	6.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Fixed:   + Some of the "boolean" configuration variables weren't being tested right (Keith Lancaster)   + Could get an error when (re-)initializing the menus - Changed:   + The ;& and ;% normal mode mappings now behave as operator (motion) mappings--use ;&l or ;%l to emulate the old behavior - Added:   + :HTMLmappings reload/html/xhtml can force reloading of the entire script, or switch the mappings into html/xhtml mode - misc. minor fixes
HTML.zip	0.30	2008-03-07	6.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Fixed:   + Exclude leading indent from the start tag for visual mappings when in visual-line mode - Added:   + ;tH (<THEAD>), ;tf (<TFOOT>), and ;tb (<TBODY>) mappings added
HTML.zip	0.29.2	2007-09-10	6.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Fixed:   + Tab mapping wasn't positioning the cursor right when there were multiple spaces between a opening and closing tag - Added:   + Make the <html> tag include an xmlns attribute for XHTML
HTML.zip	0.29	2007-08-02	6.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Added:   + g:html_tag_case_autodetect configuration variable - Fixed:   + The HTMLnextInsertPoint() function was causing a press enter prompt   + 'formatoptions' could make visual mappings behave wrong - Other minor additions and fixes
HTML.zip	0.28.2	2007-06-29	6.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Fixed:   + Defining the menus failed entirely if g:no_html_toolbar was set - Changes:   + Add "Select Tag" and "Select Inner Tag" to the PopUp menu   + Minor tweaks
HTML.zip	0.28	2007-06-24	6.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Fixed:   + Visual mode mappings weren't operating properly when 'selection' was set to "exclusive" - Added:   + ;db -- default browser mapping for Windows
HTML.zip	0.27.6	2007-06-12	6.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Fixed:   + Menus weren't getting disabled/enabled properly - Changed:   + <DT> and <DD> tags now have closing tags and visual mappings   + ;;-style mapping for whatever g:html_map_leader is set to   + Internal code changes
HTML.zip	0.27.4	2007-06-06	6.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Added:   + Smart handling of <EM></EM> tags   + ;% mapping added -- like ;& but convert to %XX hex strings for URIs - Changed:   + Moved ;ns / ;nns mappings to ;ne / ;nne, and moved ;nj mappings to ;ns
HTML.zip	0.27.1	2007-05-31	6.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Added:   + g:force_html_menu can be set to force the HTML menus to be defined in the console   + g:no_html_menu can be set to stop the menu and toolbar items from being defined   + w3m browser preview under *nix - Minor changes and fixes
HTML.zip	0.26.8	2007-05-18	6.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Fixed:   + MangleImageTag() used by ;mi mapping was missing some quotes and computing the wrong sizes when 'encoding' was UTF8 or similar   + Tab on the end of a line in insert mode moved the cursor a character left   + Temporarily clear the 'comments' option for the ;js mapping so extraneous // comments weren't inserted - Various minor changes
HTML.zip	0.26.5	2007-04-23	6.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Fixed:   + When 'filetype' was set in a modeline ":HTMLmappings disable" didn't work   + Mappings defined with HTMLmap()/HTMLmapo() outside the script weren't redefined when :HTMLmappings disable then enable was run - Added:   + ;aH, ;aT, ;aN, etc. now work in insert mode -- they get data from the clipboard   + ;nj mapping for <NOSCRIPT><CR></NOSCRIPT> added   + visual and normal mode mappings for ;ob - Various minor changes and fixes
HTML.zip	0.26	2007-04-10	6.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Added:   + ":HTMLmappings disable/enable" command   + %vimversion% template token - Fixed:   + Some recently added mappings weren't in the menu   + Inserting the HTML template could trigger the "Press ENTER" prompt
HTML.zip	0.25.5	2007-03-30	6.0	Christian J. Robinson	- New mappings:   + ;sj mapping -- like ;js but for sourced JavaScript   + ;^ mapping to decode &#...; encoded strings   + ;& in insert mode inserts a literal & - Minor changes
HTML.zip	0.25.1	2007-03-11	6.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Allow b:html_template to be set in addition to g:html_template - HTMLnextInsertPoint() used by the <tab> mapping now handles comments, and no longer requires an argument - ;s4 mapping added -- Same as ;4 only strict rather than transitional - %time%, %time12%, and %time24% template tokens added, and %date% token is now customizable - b:do_xhtml_mappings was being ignored
HTML.zip	0.24	2007-02-22	6.0	Christian J. Robinson	- In rare cases the script tried to re-enable the ToolBar buttons when they didn't exist - g:no_html_tab_mapping can be defined to 'move' the <tab> mappings to ;<tab> - misc. fixes and additions
HTML.zip	0.23.2	2006-12-12	6.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Bug when testing for g:html_charset - Fix a couple of the forms mappings - Documentation updates and fixes
HTML.zip	0.23.1	2006-12-11	6.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Dynamic charset support for the template and the ;ct mapping, based on the 'fileencoding', and 'encoding' options (but the conversion table is limited, see ":help html-author-notes") - <option> tag wasn't properly closed
HTML.zip	0.22.2	2006-12-04	6.0	Christian J. Robinson	- browser_launcher.vim: Bug in detecting the remote command - ;me mapping wasn't properly positioning the cursor - Minor documentation fixes
HTML.zip	0.22.1	2006-11-14	6.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Make the leader of the ;-mappings configurable with g:html_map_leader - Fix error when g:no_html_toolbar is set
HTML.zip	0.21.2	2006-10-13	6.0	Christian J. Robinson	- ;im mapping wasn't properly positioning the cursor - Minor improvement to the HTMLnextInsertPoint function used by the tab mapping
HTML.zip	0.21	2006-10-04	6.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Basic support for XHTML added--see ":help g:do_xhtml_mappings" - Misc. minor fixes
HTML.zip	0.20.4	2006-05-28	6.0	Christian J. Robinson	- ;h1 - ;h6 and mappings no longer create center aligned tags, ;hr no longer has a default width. Use ;H1 - ;H6 / ;Hr if you still want the old default behavior. - Don't display menu/toolbar entries for browsers that don't exist. (Unix only) - Allow .-repeating of operator mappings to work properly. - Code improvements and bug fixes.
HTML.zip	0.19	2006-01-18	6.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Smart-handling of certain tags (bold, italic, underline, comments) if syntax highlighting is on.
HTML.zip	0.18	2005-12-26	6.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Implemented normal mode mappings that take an operator (motion) for Vim 7.
HTML.zip	0.17.1	2005-10-22	6.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Some visual mappings had insert offset problems when 'indentexpr' was set. - Author email in templates wasn't being encoded (bug since the template became configurable).
HTML.zip	0.16.2	2005-10-08	6.0	Christian J. Robinson	Some visual mappings didn't work with the extra code used to prevent a (visual)bell.
HTML.zip	0.16	2005-07-13	6.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Fixed some of the forms visual mappings. - Added code to prevent a (visual)bell with some of the visual mappings when 'showmatch' was enabled.
HTML.zip	0.15.1	2005-05-19	6.0	Christian J. Robinson	- MangleImageTag was getting the width and height of gifs reversed. - Other minor bugs fixed.
HTML.zip	0.15	2004-06-09	6.0	Christian J. Robinson	- A bug crept in that prevented the work-around for the GTK2 toolbar pixmap bug from working.
HTML.zip	0.14	2004-04-22	6.0	Christian J. Robinson	- ;& mapping to change the visual selection or character under the cursor to its &#...; equivalent. - ;mi mapping to automatically update the WIDTH/HEIGHT attributes in an IMG tag. (MangleImageTag.vim included. -- Experimental! See ":help ;mi".) - Misc. bug fixes and tweaks.
HTML.zip	0.13	2004-03-16	6.0	Christian J. Robinson	- The template used by ;html is now configurable. - Colors menu changed from a cascading menu to an alphabetic menu. - Misc. tweaks.
HTML.zip	0.12	2003-11-04	6.0	Christian J. Robinson	- Insert mode mappings weren't buffer-local. (Error when removing Vim5 support.)
HTML.zip	0.11	2003-10-27	6.0	Christian J. Robinson	- HTML menu and ToolBar weren't being enabled sometimes when the script was loaded again. - Abandoned support for vim versions prior to 6. - More minor changes.
HTML.zip	0.10	2003-09-13	5.7	Christian J. Robinson	- Mozilla mappings added. - HTML encode author email (to prevent spam harvesters). - Work-around for a bug in the Vim GTK2 toolbar interface that doesn't properly find icons. - Other minor changes.

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