vim-smartsplit

You're lazy. Let Vim decide your split directions.
git clone git://git.danielmoch.com/vim-smartsplit.git
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      1 # VIM-SMARTSPLIT
      2 
      3 You're lazy. Let Vim decide your split directions.
      4 
      5 ## Summary
      6 
      7 Yeah, you're aware of `split`/`vsplit`, `new`/`vnew` and the like. You
      8 use them because you have to, but you know there must be a better way.
      9 This is it.
     10 
     11 Vim, given it's old pedigree, tacitly assumes a standard terminal width
     12 of around 80 characters. In this environment it makes sense for Vim to
     13 assume any command that divides the current window should divide
     14 horizonally. But our monitors are often capable of more than twice the
     15 width of an old terminal, so this doesn't make sense any more.
     16 
     17 One sensible option, which this plugin adopts, is to make a best-guess
     18 at the width of the text displayed in the current window (see
     19 `'textwidth'`). Then operations should default to vertical if there is
     20 enough horizonal room to display two splits side-by-side.
     21 
     22 This plugin provides `:Help`, `:Split`, `:New`, and `:Buffer` commands
     23 to replace their lower-case counterparts. It also sets `'diffopt'` to
     24 split in either a horizontal or vertical direction, again depending on
     25 the horizontal space available.
     26 
     27 ## Installation
     28 
     29 It's 2019, and the only sensible option for package management in Vim's
     30 built-in manager. If you've never used it before, here's the summary
     31 (adapted from `:help packages`).
     32 
     33 ```
     34 cd .vim
     35 mkdir -p pack/foo/start
     36 cd pack/foo/start
     37 git clone https://git.danielmoch.com/vim-smartsplit.git
     38 ```
     39 
     40 If you're stuck on an old version of Vim without support for packages,
     41 then I recommend using [Pathogen](https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen)
     42 to fill the gap, in which case the installation is the same.
     43 
     44 ## Usage
     45 
     46 There aren't any tricks here. Just use `:Help`, `:Split`, `:Buffer`, and
     47 `:New` instead of their lower-case counterparts.
     48 
     49 ## License
     50 
     51 This plugin is made available under the same license as Vim itself.
     52 
     53 ## Contributing
     54 
     55 This plugin will never do anything more fancy than it already does, but
     56 the current maintainer is prone to stupid mistakes, so if you find any
     57 bugs feel free to submit patches via email to the address listed in
     58 `:help vim-smartsplit`.
     59 
     60 If you're unfamiliar with the Git email workflow, I recommend
     61 [git-send-mail.io](https://git-send-email.io/) as a good place to learn
     62 the basics.