vim-autoformat

This vim plugin integrates external code-formatting programs into vim automatically. If you have installed a supported formatprogram correctly, you can use it within vim immediately. You don't have to configure anything. It works out of the box.

How to install (Vundle)

Put this in your .vimrc

Bundle "Chiel92/vim-autoformat"

How to use

To be able to use automatic code formatting, you have to install an external program that can format code of the programming language you are using. Normally, it suffices to make the formatprogram either globally available or to put it in the formatters folder. In some cases this is inconvenient to accomplish and therefore sometimes alternative installation methods are supported. It is said explicitly if this is the case.

When you have succeed installing the formatters you need, you can format visually selected code with gq. For more info type :help gq. You can also format the whole buffer with the command :Autoformat. For convenience it is recommended that you assign a key for this, like so:

noremap <F7> :Autoformat<CR>

Supported formatprograms

Here is a list of formatprograms that are currently supported.

• einars/jsbeautify (the python version) for javascript. This one can also installed as a vundle package. To do so, put this in your .vimrc:

Bundle "einars/jsbeautify"

• autopep8 for python

If you find yourself in need of support for another formatprogram, simply add a configuration file in the folder ftplugin. You can take the existing ones as an example. Oh, and be sure to send me a patch. :)