This is an extension for CtrlP which adds a "Command Palette" akin to the ones found in Atom or Sublime Text.
It's built upon the works of Juan Pedro Fisanotti (fisadev) (thank you!), though I felt that the changes were major enough to warrant a new project.
It is very much a new project, and still has a certain want of build-in commands. If you have any ideas for commands to implement, or comments about current functionality, create an issue or drop a line in gitter!
A quick way to get going with CtrlP and CtrlP-CommandPalette is using one of the many vim package managers like Plug, Vundle, or Neobundle.
If you use Plug, Add Plug 'kien/ctrlp.vim' and
Plug 'dbeecham/ctrlp-commandpalette.vim to your .vimrc and run :PlugInstall.
If you use some other package manager, then do whatever that package manager
wants you to do to install this package along with CtrlP.
Spawn CtrlP-CommandPalette using :CtrlPCommandPalette. It's probably a good
idea to bind this to some key:
nnoremap <leader>t :CtrlPCommandPalette<cr>
The command palette uses a simple dictionary (:help Dictionary) for all
commands. If you want to create your own commands, simply define this dictionary
yourself in your .vimrc, example:
let g:commandPalette = {
\ 'Ignorecase: Toggle': 'set ignorecase!',
\ 'File: save and close': 'wc',
\ 'Run my custom function': 'call MyFunction()'}
- CtrlP-CommandPalette will append all built-in commands to this list when initialized (when spawning for the first time).
- The keys (the searchable strings) must be unique.
- You can alter the commandPalette Dictionary at any time.
- CtrlP-CommandPalette will not overwrite any entries in the dictionary, so to overwrite built-in behaviour, simply create an entry with the same key as the one you wish to overwrite.
To completely disable the built-in commands for CtrlP-CommandPalette, add this to your .vimrc:
let g:ctrlp_commandpalette_autoload_commands = 0
A special thanks to Juan Pedro Fisanotti fisadev for his works on CtrlP-CmdPalette.