Maktaba is a vimscript plugin library. It is designed for plugin authors. Features include:

• Plugin objects (for manipulating plugins in vimscript)
• Plugin flags (used to configure plugins without global settings)
• Universal logger interface
• Dependency management tools
• Real closures

Maktaba advocates a plugin structure that, when adhered to, gives the plugin access to many powerful tools such as configuration flags. Within Google, these conventions standardize behavior across a wide variety of plugins.

Also contained are many utility functions that ease the pain of working with vimscript. This includes, among other things:

• Exception handling
• Variable type enforcement
• Filepath manipulation

In the vroom/ directory you'll find literate test files that walk you through maktaba features in depth. vroom/main.vroom is a good place to start.

In the examples/ directory you can find an example maktaba plugin to give you a feel for how maktaba plugins look.

In the doc/ directory you'll find helpfiles for maktaba. These are also available via :help maktaba if maktaba has been installed and helptags have been generated. The help files document the maktaba API in its entirety.