A simple plugin that display a tip at startup, no configuration required
Use your favorite plugin manager; ex vim-plug:
Plug 'michaelb/vim-tips'vim-tips should be, vim (incl <8), neovim, linux, macOS and windows compatible
vim-tips prints a message in the command area at startup.
However, you can request tips by calling the function GetTip() to get a string value usable in vimscript. Ex:
let tip = GetTip()
echo tip
Don't forget to load vim-tips beforehand if necessary (you need it at startup) by preceding calls to GetTip() by a
runtime plugin/vim-tips.vim
To display a tip (and not a quote) in your vim-startify you can include the following in your config file:
let g:startify_custom_header = 'startify#pad([GetTip()])'
You'll probably also want to deactivate the basic tip display at startup.
If you are using an autoload session restore (from mksession) it displays a message and therefore hide the vim-tips message.
vim-tips reads from your vim/neovim config file and displays the lines it recognizes.
For example;
nnoremap gd :ALEGoToDefinition
will display the tip "Config => gd :ALEGoToDefinition (normal mode)".
If you'd like to display tips more often (and see less mappings from your own config file), you can adjust the tips frequency via
let g:vim_tips_tips_frequency=0.5 (with a value between 0.0 and 1.0, higher value increase tips frequency)
You can specify let g:vim_tips_display_at_startup=0 (default :1) to not have a message displayed at startup. You can then get tips by using the GetTip() function
##Special thanks
To @R0LA1mRifcF8yAkk and @Kamilcuk who have opened so many relevant issues, and helped me catch edge cases and suggested improvements.