Vim Base64

Encodes/decodes base64 strings using base64 on Linux and Python on Windows

Note: In this video, atob and btoa are reversed!

Installation

Prerequisites

• On Linux, you need base64 from coreutils installed.
• On Windows, you need Python.

Vundle

Use your preferred Vim plugin installation method.

If you like Vundle:

Add to your .vimrc:

Plugin 'christianrondeau/vim-base64'

And install it:

:so ~/.vimrc
:PluginInstall

Or with vim-plug:

Add to your .vimrc:

Plug 'christianrondeau/vim-base64'

And install it:

:so ~/.vimrc
:PlugInstall

Usage

You can encode and decode base64 string in several modes.

Note that if you provide invalid base64 strings, your text will ben replaced by the error message.

In a Visual Selection (v)

After replacement, the new text will automatically be visually selected.

• <leader>atob to convert from base64 to a string
• <leader>btoa to convert from a string to base64

Doing a regex replacement

You can also, in normal mode, replace all instances of a regular expression by their base64 representation, using <leader>btoa/ or <leader>atob/. This will insert a command mode string, with your cursor directly where you can type the regular expression.

Contributions

Before making pull requests, make sure that tests still pass. They are using Vader.vim.

To run tests, either use :Vader tests/* from the vim-base64 folder, or :Vader % from within a test file.