vim-pathaction - Execute the pathaction command-line tool from Vim

Execute pathaction.yaml rules using the pathaction command-line tool from Vim.

(The pathaction command-line tool enables the execution of specific commands on targeted files or directories. Its key advantage lies in its flexibility, allowing users to handle various types of files simply by passing the file or directory as an argument to the pathaction tool. The tool uses a .pathaction.yaml rule-set file to determine which command to execute. Additionally, Jinja2 templating can be employed in the rule-set file to further customize the commands.)

Customizations

Keybindings

Below are two examples of key bindings (<leader>ee to execute the "main" tag and <leader>ei to execute the "install" tag):

nnoremap <leader>ee :call pathaction#run("main")<CR>
nnoremap <leader>ei :call pathaction#run("install")<CR>

Author and license

Copyright (C) 2021-2025 James Cherti.

Distributed under terms of the MIT license.

Installation

Installation with Vim's built-in package manager (Vim 8 and above)

mkdir -p ~/.vim/pack/jamescherti/start
cd ~/.vim/pack/jamescherti/start
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jamescherti/vim-pathaction
vim -u NONE -c "helptags vim-pathaction/doc" -c q

Installation with a third-party plugin manager

You can also install this Vim plugin with any third-party plugin manager such as Pathogen or Vundle.

Links

• vim-pathaction @GitHub
• The pathaction command-line tool (requirement): pathaction
• For Emacs users: pathaction.el @GitHub, an Emacs package that allows executing the pathaction command-line tool directly from Emacs.