Typescript Syntax for Vim
Syntax file and other settings for TypeScript. The syntax file is taken from this blog post.
Checkout Tsuquyomi for omni-completion and other features for TypeScript editing.
Install
The simplest way to install is via a Vim add-in manager such as Plug, Vundle or Pathogen.
Pathogen
git clone https://github.com/leafgarland/typescript-vim.git ~/.vim/bundle/typescript-vim
If you want to install manually then you need to copy the files from this
repository into your vim path, see the vim docs for :help
runtimepath
for more information. This might be as simple as copying the files and
directories to ~/.vim/
but it depends on your Vim install and operating
system.
Usage
Once the files are installed the syntax highlighting and other settings will be
automatically enabled anytime you edit a .ts
file.
Indenting
This plugin includes a custom indenter (based on pangloss/vim-javascript's
indenter),
it works pretty well but there are cases where it fails. If these bother you or
want to use other indent settings you can disable it by setting a flag in your
.vimrc
:
let g:typescript_indent_disable = 1
If you want the indenter to automatically indent chained method calls as you type.
something
.foo()
.bar();
Then add something like setlocal indentkeys+=0.
to your .vimrc
, see :help 'indentkeys'
in vim for more information.
If you use the =
operator to re-indent code it will always indent
chained method calls - this can be disabled by changing the regex the
indent script uses to identify indented lines. In this case removing '.'
from the regex means that it wont indent lines starting with '.'. Note,
this is not ideal as the regex may change making your setting out of date.
let g:typescript_opfirst='\%([<>=,?^%|*/&]\|\([-:+]\)\1\@!\|!=\|in\%(stanceof\)\=\>\)'
Compiler settings
This plugin contains compiler settings to set makeprg
and errorformat
.
The compiler settings enable you to call the tsc
compiler directly from Vim
and display any errors or warnings in Vim's QuickFix window.
To run the compiler, enter :make
, this will run tsc
against the last saved
version of your currently edited file.
The default for makeprg
is tsc $* %
. You can enter other compiler options into your :make
command line and they will be inserted in place of $*
.
There are options to change the compiler name and to insert default options.
let g:typescript_compiler_binary = 'tsc'
let g:typescript_compiler_options = ''
You can completely override this plugin's compiler settings with something like
this in your .vimrc
, where you can set makeprg to whatever you want.
autocmd FileType typescript :set makeprg=tsc
Note, this plugin's compiler settings are not used by Syntastic which has its own way of changing the options. See https://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic#faqargs.
You can use something like this in your .vimrc
to make the QuickFix
window automatically appear if :make
has any errors.
autocmd QuickFixCmdPost [^l]* nested cwindow
autocmd QuickFixCmdPost l* nested lwindow