Vim

You can install the support with Vundle with:

set nocompatible
filetype off
set rtp+=~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim
call vundle#begin()
Plugin 'gmarik/vundle'
let g:snipMate = {}
let g:snipMate.snippet_version = 1
Plugin 'MarcWeber/vim-addon-mw-utils'
Plugin 'tomtom/tlib_vim'
Plugin 'garbas/vim-snipmate'
Plugin 'ourbigbook/ourbigbook', {'rtp': 'vim'}

or by directly dropping the files named below under your ~/.vim/, e.g. vim/syntax/ourbigbook.vim

The following support is provided:

vim/syntax/ourbigbook.vim: syntax highlighting.
As for other programming languages, this cannot be perfect without actually parsing, which would be slow for larger files.
But even the imperfect approximation already covers a lot of the most cases.
Notably it turns off spelling from parts of the document like URLs and code which would otherwise contain many false positive spelling errors.
vim/snippets/ourbigbook.snippets: snippets for github.com/honza/vim-snippets, which you also have to install first for them to work.
For example, with those snippets installed, you can easily create links to headers. Suppose you have:
```
= My long header
```
To create an cross reference to it you can:
- copy My long header to the clipboard, see copy to clipboard shortcuts at: stackoverflow.com/questions/3961859/how-to-copy-to-clipboard-in-vim/67890119#67890119
- type \x and then hit tab
and it will automatically expand to:
```
\x[my-long-header]
```
This provides a reasonable alternative for ID calculation, until a ctags-like setup gets implemented (never/browser editor with preview-only? ;-))
Similarly for \H parent argument you can do:
```
{p
```
would expand to:
```
{parent=my-long-header}
```
Syntax highlighting can likely never be perfect without a full parser (which is slow), but even the imperfect approximate setup (as provided for most other languages) is already a huge usability improvement.
We will attempt to err on the side of "misses some stuff but does not destroy the entire page below" whenever possible.
mappings:
- <leader>f, which usually means ,f (comma then F): start searching for a header in the current file. Does a regular / search without opening any windows, to is it very ligthweight. Mnemonic: "Find".
- <leader>h (requires Fugitive to be installed): sets up the ObbGitGrep command, which searches for header across all git tracked files in the current Git repository. After ,g you are left in the prompt with:
  ObbGitGrep
  so if you complete that by:
  ObbGitGrep animal kingdom
  it will match headers that start with animal kingdoom case insentively, e.g.:
  = Animal kingdom tree = Animal kingdom book
  Vim regular expressions are accepted, e.g. if you don't want it to start with the search pattern:
  ObbGitGrep .*animal kingdom
  The command opens a new tab (technically a "Vim error window") containing all matches, where you can click Enter to open one of them.
  Mnemonic: "Header search".

A simple way to develop is to edit the Vundle repository directly under ~/.vim/bundle/ourbigbook.

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