colorquote.vim

On-demand highlighting for entire lines in markdown like file types.

Why you might find it interesting

When reading PDFs via a PDF viewer / editor, adding some text highlighting to specific text passages is rather easy. When taking notes or going through lots of text pasted into Vim, there's no easy way to do that though.

So if you've ever desired a way to add some on-demand text highlighting of entire lines in your text based notes (text, markdown, vimwiki), just like you would be doing when reading a PDF file, colorquote might add some value to your workflow.

The basic idea

colorquote adds up to 10 highlighting styles.

To enable specific highlighting for a given line, it will be prefixed with an associated style symbol (e.g. <>). Dedicated mappings exist for quick addition of such style symbols.

The additional highlighting rules are added via Vim's after-directory mechanism.

Installation

Simply use one of the many plugin managers there are. E.g. vim-plug:

`Plug 'goli4thus/colorquote.vim'`

Mappings

mapping	purpose
<Leader><subleader>1	change to style 1
<Leader><subleader>2	change to style 2
<Leader><subleader>3	change to style 3
<Leader><subleader>4	change to style 4
<Leader><subleader>5	change to style 5
<Leader><subleader>6	change to style 6
<Leader><subleader>7	change to style 7
<Leader><subleader>8	change to style 8
<Leader><subleader>9	change to style 9
<Leader><subleader>0	change to style 10
<Leader><subleader>w	change to without styling

Where <subleader> is a colorquote specific second level leader key. Default is 'j'.

Works both on current line or visual selection (entire lines).

Configuration

Various things can be configured:

• the <subleader> key
• the actual file types colorquote will be enabled for (supported: text, markdown, vimwiki)
• the actual style symbols
• the associated style symbol highlighting
• additional styling for *bold* syntax contained within

Furthermore, style symbols can be hidden via Vim's conceal feature (i.e. style symbols will only show while lines are selected; requires conceallevel=2). This can be momentarily toggled via command :ColorquoteToggleConceal, or made persistent via the associated configuration option.

For details on how to configure all the above, please have a look at: :help colorquote

License

MIT