TIG Browser - VIM Plugin

The new major release of Vim (version 9.0) supports a new scripting language (VIM9SCRIPT) intended to drastically improve performance. This single file plugin opens TIG, a Git repository browser, inside a popup window.

TIG has to be installed separately, on Windows, Git for Windows SCM contains both binaries git.exe and tig.exe.

VIM9SCRIPT Plugin

Vim-Tig has been entirely written in Vim9Script and therefore it works only with VIM version 9.0. The main script file in the plugin directory has vim9script as its first command which indicates that isn't a legacy VIML script. Functions are defined with the def command and are declared with typed arguments.

As shown in the video above, a central floating window (popup) will list all the commits in the repository. Floating windows have been recently included in VIM ( version 8.2 ), in this plugin the buffer displayed inside the floating window is the terminal where tig is running.

MINGW64/MSYS2

Tig can be installed with:

   pacman -S tig

You might encounter a problem with Windows command-prompt when the PATH environmental variable doesn't include the folder where TIG is installed. Tig needs also git.exe to be included in the PATH. The bat file below simulates the same configuration provided by Git for windows.

    @echo off
    cd C:\Users\seve\workplace\msys2\usr\bin
    set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Users\Seve\workplace\msys2\usr\bin
    set todir=%1
    set repo=%2

    IF %repo%.==. GOTO ShowVer

    tig.exe %todir% %repo%
    GOTO EndBat

    :ShowVer
    tig.exe -v
    GOTO EndBat

    :EndBat