vimbuilder 0.0.4

Sphinx extension to generate Vim help files

vimbuilder

Sphinx extension to create Vim help files.

Converting API documentation of programming languages to Vim help format just got easier.

Install

pip3 install vimbuilder

Usage

Add the extension to your conf.py file:

extensions = [
    ...,
    "vimbuilder",
    ...,
]

Build Vim help files with sphinx-build command

sphinx-build -M vimhelp ./docs ./build

Configurations

You can add the following configurations to your conf.py file:

Option	Default	Description
vimhelp_tag_prefix	''	String to prefix all tags. Useful for separating namespaces in case of multiple sources of documentation.
vimhelp_tag_suffix	''	String to suffix all tags. See above.
vimhelp_tag_filename	True	Whether to suffix filename to all tags in the file. Clarifies topic of help tag.
vimhelp_tag_topic	False	Same as above except without file extension.
vimhelp_filename_extension	'txt'	Generated filenames will have this extension.
vimhelp_filename_suffix	''	First tag in a help file is the filename itself. This option adds a suffix to just that tag.

Projects using Vimbuilder

• Python documentation for Vim and Neovim