Gifl: Google I'm Feeling Lucky URL Grabber

Textmate sure was a swift kick in the ass for a lot of the editors: bundles, integration, carpal-crucifying key bindings? Yet the old ways remain seductive and in the expanse between Textmate 1.0 and Textmate 2.0 alpha, many found themselves picking up the tried-and-true editors and moving them to meet up with features they liked about Textmate.

Lack of this feature was keeping my friend Daniel Miessler from converting to Vim as his blogging platform -- no more!

This plugin wraps a term set in a URL derived from the term's "I'm feeling lucky" URL. This is great for blogging or referencing known / famous URL identities.

Configuration

g:LuckyOutputFormat : set to "markdown" or "html" for link formatting

Examples

Notation

is \
* is cursor position
| | denote visual selection areas

OK, the examples already

*lindsay lohan
\gifl2e
[lindsay lohan](http://www.myspace.com/lindsaylohan*)

alternatively:

*Zooey Deschanel  # v2e
|Zooey Deschanel| # \gifl
[Zooey Deschanel](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooey_Deschanel*)

If you like angle brackets:

:let g:LuckyOutputFormat='html'
*Bazinga!  # \gifl$
<a href=http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bazinga>Bazinga!</a>

Installation

I'm using this with Janus by Yehuda and Carl so installation was super-easy:

`cd ~/.janus`
`git submodule add git://github.com/sgharms/GIFL.git gifl`

Restart Janus and you're good to go.

Status

Very, very, very alpha. Report issues here for me to repair.

Author

Steven G. Harms (@sgharms)

Thanks

Steve Losh: Author of Learn Vimscript the Hard Way, which I cribbed from to get this working.

GIFL

Commits

Added Ruby compilation check at the top of the plugin

A minor rewrite to make it function on my vim

Helpdoc