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Shougo
vimproc.vim
Vim Script2013–2014
Shougo / vimproc.vim

vimproc.vim

Interactive command execution in Vim.

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What it is

Interactive command execution in Vim.

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Where it is used

No documented product use was verified in the last source check.

What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.

This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 2:59:53 AM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by week5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2013-09-12 08:20:30 UTC to 2014-01-14 18:59:34 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

01232013-09-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-09-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsSep 92013-09-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-09-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-09-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-09-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-09-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-10-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-10-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-10-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-10-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-10-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-10-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-10-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-10-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-11-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2013-11-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-11-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsNov 112013-11-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-11-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-11-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-12-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-12-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-12-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-12-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-12-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-12-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-12-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-12-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-12-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-12-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-01-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-01-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJan 13

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Sep 92013-09-09 00:00:00 UTC2013-09-16 00:00:00 UTC101
Sep 162013-09-16 00:00:00 UTC2013-09-23 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 232013-09-23 00:00:00 UTC2013-09-30 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 302013-09-30 00:00:00 UTC2013-10-07 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 72013-10-07 00:00:00 UTC2013-10-14 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 142013-10-14 00:00:00 UTC2013-10-21 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 212013-10-21 00:00:00 UTC2013-10-28 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 282013-10-28 00:00:00 UTC2013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 42013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC2013-11-11 00:00:00 UTC303
Nov 112013-11-11 00:00:00 UTC2013-11-18 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 182013-11-18 00:00:00 UTC2013-11-25 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 252013-11-25 00:00:00 UTC2013-12-02 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 22013-12-02 00:00:00 UTC2013-12-09 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 92013-12-09 00:00:00 UTC2013-12-16 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 162013-12-16 00:00:00 UTC2013-12-23 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 232013-12-23 00:00:00 UTC2013-12-30 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 302013-12-30 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-06 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 62014-01-06 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 132014-01-13 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-20 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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m2mdas·Sep 12, 2013
Pasting the reply I gave in r/vim Answer to some of the points, Janus: There are divided opinions in vim community about whether distributions should be used or not. I am on the latter side. But still for just checking out I installed Janus a while ago. Yes it is slow, but it turns out that it is as slow as my then `.vimrc` configuration. I tried to track down the problem. It is because of vim's blocking behaviour during executing external commands. When you write a buffer or switch to a buffer, syntastic, tagbar, powerline statusline, gitgutter, bufexplorer all execute external command. Vim becomes more slow when `.git` repository grow larger or when saving a large file. So how do you solve the problem? Remove those plugins and install Unite.vim[1] with vimproc[2] asynchronous library. Files that change: If you do external edits more fre
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quently then I think it is time to rethink your work-flow. I think there is a common consensus that you should not run live edit in server. * Indenting pastes* : There is a plugin for that [3] ? * Opening files inside my project : Last I checked command-t was damn fast, don't know where slowness comes form. Another alternative is `Unite.vim` `file/async` source. It is fast at finding files but goes slow while doing ignore-pattern checking. Without the checking it is DAMN FAST. The `phpcomplete/files` source I created for my php autocomplete plugin[4] easily list 4000+ files in seconds. If you want to list files obeying the patterns in the '.gitignore' or '.hgignore' files. Checkout my unite-file-vcs[4] plugin. It adds a `file/vcs` source that lists files by issuing `git ls-files` or `hg status -c -m -u` command for `git` or `mercurial` projects respectively. Navigating inside files*: Checkout unite-outline[6]. It shows live output by parsing the current buffer. Unite.vim required. But it does not support css files right now. Adding support should be easy. So the summary of the story. Move to `unite.vim` and friends ;) [1] https://github.com/Shougo/unite.vim/ [2] https://github.com/Shougo/vimproc.vim [3] https://github.com/sickill/vim-pasta [4] https://github.com/m2mdas/phpcomplete-extended [5] https://github.com/m2mdas/unite-file-vcs [6] https://github.com/Shougo/unite-outline
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