Question

Is anyone aware of a plugin for Vim that will allow me to open the current file on Github (or ideally, even the current selection if in visual mode)?

I had this plugin previously for Sublime Text, and now that I’m using Vim, would like to have the same thing.

edit: I am looking for a plugin that will open my web browser to the page on github.com that corresponds to the file I’m currently editing. E.g., If I was editing foo/bar.js in my local clone of the quux repo in Vim, using this plugin would open https://github.com/dtb/Quux/blob/master/foo/bar.js. This is equivalent to ST2-Githubinator.

Answer 1

The fugitive.vim plugin has :help fugitive-:Gbrowse that will do what you want. It’s also awesome in general.

                                            *fugitive-:Gbrowse*
:[range]Gbrowse         If the remote for the current branch is on GitHub,
                        open the current file, blob, tree, commit, or tag
                        (with git-web--browse) on GitHub.  Otherwise, open the
                        current file, blob, tree, commit, or tag in
                        git-instaweb (if you have issues, verify you can run
                        "git instaweb" from a terminal).  If a range is given,
                        it is appropriately appended to the URL as an anchor.
                        To use with GitHub FI, point g:fugitive_github_domains
                        at a list of domains:

                        let g:fugitive_github_domains = ['git.example.com']

:[range]Gbrowse!        Like :Gbrowse, but put the URL on the clipboard rather
                        than opening it.