Draft.vim

Quickly writeup and save drafts for messaging apps in your favorite editor vimawesome.com/plugin/draft-vim

Why use Draft.vim

I often write important messages in a vim buffer before I send it.

The main reason for this is because it is simply faster.
The second reason is you might want syntax highlighting or auto formating.
Also, sometimes you want to write a message without worrying about accidentally sending it.

Requirements

Pandoc
wkhtmltopdf
Dragon (https://github.com/mwh/dragon)

Features

- Quickly open a new file, well named
- File contains attributes like date, title, and platform that can be searchable

Setup and Config

Make a drafts directory

- Add the command to setup a drafts directory

let g:drafts_directory = "/path/to/drafts/"

Optional, create a keybind for the commands

`NewDraft` Keybind

nnoremap <Leader>nd :call NewDraft()<CR>

`ListDrafts` Keybind

nnoremap <Leader>ld :call ListDrafts()<CR>

`OpenDrafts` Keybind

nnoremap <Leader>z :call OpenDrafts()<CR>

Use

Commands

Command	Description
Draft	Open a blanck new draft
Draft `"title"`	Open a draft with a title
DraftExt `"extension"`	Change the file extension of a draft
Drafts	Open the draft directory in a buffer
DraftCopy	Copy the contents of the draft to the clipboard

More info

- New draft: run `:Draft` or `:Draft "<Title>"` to auto name with the date and time
- Edit the file extension: run `:DraftExt .md` to change the file to markdown
- Open the drafts directory: run `:Drafts`
- Copy the contents of the current draft `:DraftCopy`
- Draft will open a new file in a specific directory, with a unique name
- The file will be based on a template with stuff like the title and datetime

Install

Vim-Plug

Plug 'jakeroggenbuck/draft.vim'

Vundle

Plugin 'jakeroggenbuck/draft.vim'

Versions

0.1 draft.vim - not fully functional, just a concept

Open a new draft with a name
List the draft but no reopening them

0.2 draft.vim - first complete version

Add OpenDrafts()
Add new command aliases Draft, DraftExt

0.3 draft.vim - more features

Add ClipDraft() or DraftCopy
Add Buffer reload for DraftExt

0.4 draft.vim - convert features

Add ConvertMDToHTML() for DraftToHTML
Add ConvertMDToPDF() for DraftToPDF
Add ConvertHTMLToPDF and ConvertToPDFFromTemplate() for DraftToTemplatePDF
Add template for html conversion
Change readme format a little
Add vimawesome link!

0.5 draft.vim - more features

Add DraftDragonPDF for DraftDragonPDF
Add DraftOpenPDF for OpenPDF
Add requirements

TODO

BUG: having certain symbols like ( or ) in the title break things like the DraftCopy
Make md to template pdf correctly do syntax highlight

Maybe TODO

Make a draft file type with metadata and parse out the metadata when opened in vim, then use this data to search for notes better and stuff, like have raw data for python to search better with

draft.vim