"Nobody knows the Java code you committed is originally written in Scheme."

Shadow.vim is a plugin to support you code with a wrapper transparently in a pluggable way.

Assuming the product is a.pl, create a.pl.shd first.

a.pl (in Vim):

## ruby -e 'puts $<.read.gsub(/$/, ";")'
$a = 1
print($a)

Open a.pl in Vim. The Vim actually shows the contents of a.pl.shd. When you save the file, the command in the first line without ## runs, then the actual a.pl will be the result.

a.pl (actually):

$a = 1;
print($a);

Unarchive the zip file into a directory that is under &rtp of your Vim, including ~/.vim dir.

There's no commands or functions you have to use explicitly.

Here there are three examples, but you can use more general purposes.

• Commit JavaScript files which was written in CoffeeScript

  • before

          ## coffee -csb
          f = (x) -> x + 1
          print f 10
    
          # vim: set ft=coffee :
    

  • after

          var f;
          f = function(x) {
            return x + 1;
          };
          print(f(10));
    

• Use cpp command before committing Java files.

• Markdown, Haml or something else to HTML

The pair of a shadow file and the actual file is always 1-to-1 pair. That makes everything simple.

Tatsuhiro Ujihisa