ePub and vim

kovidgoyal · 10-18-2010, 11:14 PM

I just discovered that vim can open and edit files inside a zip file automatically, which of course means it can do the same for epub. Which is awesome

Add the following to your .vimrc:

Code:

au BufReadCmd   *.epub      call zip#Browse(expand("<amatch>"))

Terisa de morgan · 10-19-2010, 03:04 AM

Thank you very much. vim is my text editor at PC, so it's very useful for me.

Jellby · 10-19-2010, 05:36 AM

Great tip, thank you!

MrPLD · 10-19-2010, 05:37 AM

Got to love the vim... I use gtk-vim a lot here, very nice spreading it all over large panels

charleski · 10-19-2010, 11:53 AM

Does it rezip correctly so the epub validates? I know 7zip doesn't.

Jellby · 10-19-2010, 12:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by charleski

Does it rezip correctly so the epub validates? I know 7zip doesn't.

I just tried editing a valid ePUB (deleted some content from XHTML and CSS files), and it remains valid. I don't know which "options" it uses to rezip the files, though.

kovidgoyal · 10-19-2010, 01:47 PM

On Unix it uses

zip -u

which will only affect the changed files.

cuthbert19 · 10-25-2010, 10:57 AM

Great tip, thanks Kovid!

opitzs · 10-27-2010, 08:02 AM

Thank you very much, this really is handy!

mrjoeyman · 07-06-2012, 05:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

I just discovered that vim can open and edit files inside a zip file automatically, which of course means it can do the same for epub. Which is awesome

Add the following to your .vimrc:

Code:

au BufReadCmd   *.epub      call zip#Browse(expand("<amatch>"))

I get the message: "***error*** (zip#browse) unzip not available on your system" when I try to open an epub file.

I used note pad to insert: "au BufReadCmd *.epub call zip#Browse(expand("<amatch>"))" into my .vimrc file.

Any help? Thanks.

kovidgoyal · 07-07-2012, 01:00 AM

vim can't find unzip on your system, you need to setup it up so that it can open zip files first, only then will this command work for .epub.

mrjoeyman · 07-07-2012, 10:44 AM

umm....ok thanks. I thought that was what the amendment was for. Have a good day.

AlPe · 07-07-2012, 11:17 AM

Thank you, Kovid.

Being a relative novice to Vim, I wrote a script to decompress an EPUB file, edit it with Vim and recompress it, but your way is much more convenient!

kovidgoyal · 07-07-2012, 01:41 PM

FYI: calibre has such a script (which works for EPUB, HTMLZ and AZW3 files)

calibre-debug --tweak-book filename.epub

(Essentially it is the command line version of the calibre GUI Tweak Book feature)

AlPe · 07-07-2012, 03:06 PM

Thank you for letting me know.

10-18-2010, 11:14 PM	#1
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,609 Karma: 28549044 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	ePub and vim I just discovered that vim can open and edit files inside a zip file automatically, which of course means it can do the same for epub. Which is awesome Add the following to your .vimrc: Code: au BufReadCmd *.epub call zip#Browse(expand("<amatch>"))

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