Vitra

Vim client for Trac

Vitra - Trac UI for ViM

Vitra is a Trac client UI for the wonderful universal editor Vim. It talks to a trac server via XML-RPC. It provides a fancy UI for both wiki and tickets. A paginated list of tickets window, full ticket detail window along with attachment window makes a great UI for ticket manipulation. The wiki UI combines the list of wiki pages, edit window with the content of the wiki and a preview window. It also has timeline, search and changeset windows.

Screenshots

Here you can find a quick screencast (asciicast).

Ticket UI

django tickets

Wiki UI

django wiki

Other windows

localdj windows

Requirements

Vitra requires Vim 7.3+ to be compiled with python 2.6+. Align and TracWiki are two (optional) vim plugins that makes Vitra more beautiful. Also the trac server should be 0.12+, as it uses the action command for the workflow rather than just setting resolution on a ticket manually.

Installation

The preferred way to install Vitra is using Vundle or Pathogen.

Vundle

Add the following line to your .vimrc

Bundle "nsmgr8/vitra"

Run :BundleInstall in your vim command line.

Pathogen

To install in a pathogen managed plugins environment follow the steps as

$ cd ~./vim/bundle
$ git clone git://github.com/nsmgr8/vitra

Then restart your vim.

Manual

To install Vitra manually in your local vim runtime path, do the following:

$ git clone git://github.com/nsmgr8/vitra
$ cp -R vitra/* ~/.vim/

Then restart vim and build the help tags via the vim command line

:helptags ~/.vim/doc

Settings

The minimum setting requirement is to define the trac server. One or more trac server(s) can be defined for use. To add a trac server define the global dictionary of servers g:tracServerList in your .vimrc. Following is an example of django trac server:

let g:tracServerList = {}
let g:tracServerList['djangoproject'] = {
    \ 'scheme': 'https',
    \ 'auth': 'USERNAME:PASSWORD',
    \ 'server': 'code.djangoproject.com',
    \ 'rpc_path': '/login/xmlrpc'
    \ 'auth_type': 'basic',
    \ }

By default, scheme and rpc_path have values http and /login/rpc.

If you define more than one trac server, you can also choose a default server that will be selected when a vim session starts. To define the default server set the g:tracDefaultServer in your .vimrc to the server key of it. e.g.,

let g:tracDefaultServer = 'djangoproject'

It is also possible to change the trac server in the running vim session. Use TracServer command to change the trac server to use. It can offer tab completion for available servers that are defined in g:tracServerList. Note that, this does not set the server to be default for next sessions.

Vitra supports Basic HTTP, Digest HTTP and Kerberos authentication.

UI

After the settings, one can open the wiki or ticket interface by TWOpen or TTOpen command respectively. Both commands can also optionally take a wiki page name or ticket number to open. If the requested wiki page does not exist, the wiki edit window will offer the page to be created. In case of non-existent ticket number, it will show an error in the ticket detail window.

Ticket UI

The ticket UI consists of four windows, viz., Listing, Detail, Edit and Attachment windows. The listing window is a paginated list of tickets. One can paginate through the list via TTNextPage or TTPreviousPage commands. There are also two handy TTFirstPage and TTLastPage commands which lists the first and last page of the ticket lists. One can open a ticket from the listing just by pressing ENTER or double-clicking on a line.

A number of TTFilterAttr, TTIgnoreAttr commands will be available to filter the list of tickets by attributes. TTOrderBy and TTGroupBy are also available for sorting the list on ticket attributes, which also have tab completion values for the ticket attribute keys. Filters can be cleared individually by TTClearFilter or completely by TTClearAllFilters.

The detail window shows the content of the ticket along with changelog. This is a read only buffer, that is this content is not editable. It lists the current values of all ticket attributes, description and the conversation with all the history of attribute changes.

The edit window is an empty writable buffer, where one can create/update a ticket. To create a new ticket enter the ticket description in this window and run the command TTCreate following the ticket summary. e.g., enter the following in the edit window

Here is the ticket description.

And run the following command

:TTCreate Summary of the ticket

This will create the ticket on the trac server and load it back in the detail window.

To update the summary, description or to add a comment, enter the text in the edit window and run TTSetSummary, TTSetDescription or TTAddComment respectively. There are also handy commands to load current summary or description in the edit window to update them. They are, obviously, TTEditSummary and TTEditDescription.

There will also be a number of TTUpdateAttr command available for updating the respective attributes of the ticket. e.g., TTUpdateType will update the type of the ticket. It will also offer tab completion to select the type.

One can also attach a file to the ticket via TAddAttachment command which also offers tab completion on the file system to find your file to attach. The attachments are listed in the attachment window. Pressing ENTER will download the file into current folder.

Vitra supports the trac workflow actions. It loads a ticket with the actions available. One can apply the action by TTAction, which again offers tab completion. The action will be verified before applying, so that invalid actions cannot be applied.

Vitra also keeps the history of opened tickets in the current session. Therefore it is possible to move back/forward from the currently opened ticket. To navigate the current history one should apply the command TBack or TForward to go back or forward in the history of opened tickets.

To close the ticket UI, run TTClose command. One can preview an HTML of the ticket edit window content in the default browser by TPreview.

Wiki UI

Wiki interface also consists of four windows, viz., Listing, Edit, Preview and Attachment windows. Listing window lists all available wiki pages. One can open a wiki by pressing ENTER or double-clicking a line.

The main wiki window allows the wiki page to be edited. One can edit a wiki page here and run TWSave to save the changes. To create a new wiki page, run TWOpen new_page_name, enter the text into the wiki window and run TWSave.

Like the ticket attachment window, wiki page also has a corresponding attachment window. Run TAddAttachment similarly to add a file and press ENTER to retrieve the attachment.

The UI also provides a preview which shows a stripped out html output of the current wiki page.

TBack and TForward also traverses the history of opened wiki pages as well.

TWClose can close the wiki UI. Also, TWInfo can print useful information about the current page. One can locally preview the HTML of the current wiki page content by TPreview.

Other windows

Options

The following options are available for Vitra:

Links

Inspiration

This plugin is inspired by the the other trac vim integration plugin Trac.vim available for years.

License

The source code is licensed under MIT license. Please hack it to suit yourself.

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2011 M. Nasimul Haque

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