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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Cavern of COBOL > :e Vim\ Megathread.txt | wq
 
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Apr 8, 2011

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astr0man posted:

IDE integration
QtCreator has FakeVim thing built-in. I don't know how much it differs from vim.

astr0man posted:

Recommended Plugins
  • vim-indent-guides — useful when you deal with layout-based languages
  • vim-unimpaired — some useful mappings like inserting new lines above/below or moving text blocks up/down
  • Tabular — aligning text (e.g. :Tab /^[^=]*\zs=/l1l1 to align assignments)
  • vim-powerline — the best statusline :colbert:

I have a complete vimrc too.

MononcQc posted:

Do you ever get to edit a file, delete everything, then start writing new stuff, only to find out, 2 hours later, that you needed something that was in the old version and that you lost it all?
Enabling persistent undo (:help 'undofile', :help 'undodir') in addition to installing GUndo might be a good idea, too.

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Cat Plus Plus
Apr 8, 2011

:frogc00l:
https://code.google.com/p/vimcolorschemetest is pretty helpful when picking a colour scheme.

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Apr 8, 2011

:frogc00l:
I always use relative numbering. Absolute line numbers are not that useful (other than for jumping to, which doesn't need them displayed).

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Apr 8, 2011

:frogc00l:
I recently found out that you can now set 'relativenumber' and 'number' at the same time, and vim will show an absolute line number for current line and relative line numbers for the rest.
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Apr 8, 2011

:frogc00l:

Chin Strap posted:

As someone who is a really dedicated vim user, is there a reason to try eclim? I don't write Java. I'm not sure what IDE features from Eclipse I'm actually missing out on. My primary languages are Go, R, and Python. Is the stuff from Eclipse just more useful for Java/C++?

You're missing out on fun features like forgetting how to render text properly, randomly occurring internal errors, and "restart" option built-in. Eclipse is not very good.

For Python you could take a look at PyCharm, which recently got a free version (it also has Vim emulator, IdeaVim; haven't used it though).

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