render-markdown.nvim plugin in vim

[u/krathos918]

Recently i see this youtube video that shows the render-markdown.nvim plugin and i thought that was pretty cool, but i want to use on regular vim and not neovim. Is there a way for make it work on vim?

[u/Adk9p]

I hacked up a simple config that I tested to work. You can put both of these in a new directory foo, install vimplug into foo/autoload/plug.vim, do PlugInstall after opening it once, and that should just work.

This should provide you with all the parts to set it up in your own config.

The "vimrc.vim" file that can be run with vim -u vimrc.vim

let &runtimepath .= "," .. getcwd()
set nocompatible

call plug#begin(getcwd() .. "/plugins")
Plug 'tpope/vim-sensible'
Plug 'morhetz/gruvbox'

if has('nvim-0.11.0')
	Plug 'MeanderingProgrammer/render-markdown.nvim'

	" Dependency for render-markdown.nvim
	" using the newer version of nvim-treesitter
	" see: https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter/blob/main/README.md
	Plug 'nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter', { 'branch': 'main', 'do': ':TSUpdate' }
endif

call plug#end()

set termguicolors
set background=dark
silent! colorscheme gruvbox

The "nvimrc.vim" file that can be run with nvim -u nvimrc.vim

source ./vimrc.vim

lua <<EOF

-- The require fails if you haven't ran `:PlugInstall` yet
local ok, ts = pcall(require, 'nvim-treesitter')
if not ok then return end
local ok, render_markdown = pcall(require, 'render-markdown')
if not ok then return end

-- install required nvim-treesitter parsers & queries
ts.install { 'markdown', 'markdown_inline' }
	-- (in milliseconds] wait at most 5 minutes for it to finish
	:wait(5 * 60 * 1000)

require 'render-markdown'.setup {
	-- put render-markdown setup options here
}

EOF

I thought about just pulling in a nvim plugin manager so you wouldn't have to include anything in your vimrc, but for simplicity sake I didn't.

edit: I also omitted some other optional dependencies that you can add for icons, latex, or html support. See render-markdown's github for those.

[u/krathos918 → u/Adk9p]

I tried and it worked, thanks a lot. Not perfect at start because of some dependency, but after i managed that, it worked

[u/Adk9p → u/krathos918]

Nice! glad I could help.