/slim

Interact with slack using vim!

Primary LanguageVim script

 ______     __         __     __    __   
/\  ___\   /\ \       /\ \   /\ "-./  \   Slack \ Vim
\ \___  \  \ \ \____  \ \ \  \ \ \-./\ \   Slack \ Vim
 \/\_____\  \ \_____\  \ \_\  \ \_\ \ \_\   Slack \ Vim
  \/_____/   \/_____/   \/_/   \/_/  \/_/    Slack \ Vim

Disclaimer

  • This is my first vim plugin and I know I am probably doing some things wrong, I would love to know how to make this better.
  • This project is a work in progress
  • The goal is to write as much as possible of the app in vimscript and to use the outside world as little as possible

Slack Workspace App

Create a new workspace app on your Slack App Dashboard

Go to Add Features and Functionality > Permissions

Under User Token Scopes add these scopes

chat:write
team:read
users:read
channels:read
channels:history
groups:read
groups:history
im:read
im:history
mpim:history
mpim:read

Vim Requirements

+ conceal

System Requirements

curl

Installation

Using Pathogen

# if you have not used pathogen before add this to your ~/.vimrc
execute pathogen#infect()

# clone slim into your bundle dir
cd ~/.vim/bundle
git clone https://github.com/Colmbus72/slim.git

Usage

Getting started

# Add this line to your ~/.vimrc to alias the command :Slack
command! Slack :call slim#StartSlack()

Open vim and run :Slack

login_demo

Enter your workspace token generated earlier xoxp-xxx...

Test that the tokens have the correct permissions by running tw<CR>

Run :W to generate all your workspace and channel files and overwrite anything in the .data/workspaces dir

Commands

Mapping Function
:Slack Start slack
<leader>l refresh the current channel page
<leader>c change to channel list and start search
<leader>b change to write buffer and insert at the end
<leader>w send entire write buffer to slack as a message
<leader>q close slack

Demo

demo