Vim-mpc

Vim Plugin for MPC Player

MPC is an Open source media player that works with MPD Daemon. This plugin allows you to easily interact with that daemon. Vim and music is a great combination. Listening to your favorite MJ song while coding makes you a Bad ass programmer. But to change a song, Pause/Play it, you have to leave Vim and open the media player. Being able to control your media player from Vim makes you a Badder ass.

Let Vim-mpc take care of that while you code listening to Thriller.

This is how the Playlist window looks like.

Let's see a Demo. Shall We ?

Now that's smooth. Smooth like a Criminal!

Installing

Install it using any Plugin manager of your choice. If you don't have a preference, I recommend Pathogen by Tim Pope.

To install using Pathogen,

cd ~/.vim/bundle # For linux

# vimfiles/bundle in Windows

git clone https://github.com/durgaswaroop/vim-mpc.git

Default Keymaps & Commands

Once installed, you can use the following commands

• Ctrl + x - Plays the selected song in the Playlist window

• Ctrl + a - Random On or Off in the Playlist Window

• Ctrl + e - Repeat On or Off in the Playlist Window

Customizing

You can map your own key bindings for various tasks using the mappings that are available as follows:

• :MpcPlaylistBrowser
• :MpcTogglePlayback
• :MpcIncreaseVolume
• :MpcDecreaseVolume
• :MpcPlayNext
• :MpcPlayPrev

They are named appropriately and so they will do what their name suggests they will.

Attribution

This plugin is possible because of the book VimL Primer from The Pragmatic Bookshelf. Its a must read for anyone looking to learn Vim scripting.