Better gf - open files at position

I run terminals inside vim. Often commands output file locations in, for example, search or error messages.

e.g. foobar.adb:27:2: "X" not declared in "Y"

gf on that line results in opening foobar.adb in some non-terminal buffer (so it keeps the terminal open if you executed this from a terminal buffer) and jumping to the place mentioned by issuing '27G2|' (i.e. it also goes to the right column)

gf opens files by default in (neo)vim, and vt:<C-W>gf is okay but:

you have to visually select the filename yourself
including the [colon][linenumber] suffix does not work as intended in NeoVim
this does not include the column,
it opens in the terminal window, which is inconvenient

Features

create files

gF is also mapped, to create the file at exactly that location. For instance, you could write source ~/vimrc/newfile.vim and then immediately gF on that to create the file.

open plugins

In addition, gf on a line such as:

Plug 'AndrewRadev/switch.vim'

opens ~/.vim/plugged/switch.vim

various built-in replacements

There's a list of regexes so that lines like:

Messy quoted things 'filename.txt' work
And also (in_brackets.md:500) or
file=README.md

automagically work. For more, use bettergf_magic_replacements (described below).

open lua configuration files

lua require('file')

opens ~/vimrc/lua/file.lua

Customization

You can specify custom replacements inside the path, which is useful, for example, if your error messages are coming from a dockerized script, which has the script mounted elsewhere than on your own machine. For instance, if you want to replace '/docker_root/' with '' before trying to open the file, put this in your vimrc:

let g:bettergf_magic_replacements = [['/docker_root/', '', '']]

The three parameters in each replacement are simply passed on to vim's substitute() function.

TamaMcGlinn / vim-bettergf