gitignore.nvim

A neovim plugin for generating .gitignore files in seconds, by allowing you to select from a huge number of different technologies.

This plugin is functionally identical to the service offered by gitignore.io, but capable of generating .gitignore files offline, and directly from within neovim.

1. Installation
2. Usage
3. Demo
4. Credits

Installation & Dependency

gitignore.nvim depends on telescope.nvim, please install that plugin first!

After installing telescope.nvim, you can install gitignore.nvim like this:

Using vim-plug:

Plug 'wintermute-cell/gitignore.nvim'

Using dein:

call dein#add("wintermute-cell/gitignore.nvim")

Using packer.nvim:

use({
     "wintermute-cell/gitignore.nvim",
     requires = {
        "nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim"
     }
})

Usage

This plugin ships with only one command which when run, it will create a buffer with the .gitignore contents:

:Gitignore

The buffer will not save automatically, so there is no risk of overwriting an existing .gitignore.

Alternatively, you can use the corresponding lua function directly, for example to create a keymap:

local gitignore = require("gitignore")
vim.keymap.set("n", "<leader>gi", gitignore.generate)

Selecting multiple items

gitignore.nvim makes use of telescope.nvim's multi-selection keybinds. This means that by default, you can (de-)select multiple keywords with <Tab>, and confirm your selection with <CR> (Enter). In case of multiple selected keywords, the keyword highlighted you press <CR> on will not be added to the selection!

For convenience, when no multi-selection is made before pressing <CR>, <CR> will actually add the highlighted item to the selection, and create a .gitignore file for the single keyword.

Demo

Credits

Thanks to Toptal for providing a huge list of ignore-templates!