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The MUMPSorceress: Jan 6, 2012; ^SHTPSTS; Gary’s Answer

If I interact with vim exclusively through ssh to a cluster of computers I don't control (my university's computer lab), how much can I do to make C code easier to edit? For my first couple of projects I've gone with vim as a pure editor, meaning that there's no intellisense or any real assistance from vim at all. Just basic syntax hilighting seems to work out of the box. Most of the info in the OP seems to assume that I have access to install plugins, which I don't. Can I do anything to make my life easier?

I tried working on my projects in Visual Studio for a while, but most of our projects depend on Linux syscalls and target the Linux environment so it proved to quickly become too annoying to constantly scp my source back to the lab computers to test it.

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The MUMPSorceress: Jan 6, 2012; ^SHTPSTS; Gary’s Answer

Bognar posted:

You could use a local vim to edit files on a remote server:
code:
vim scp://remoteuser@server.tld//path/to/document
If you have write access to a home directory on the server, you can also do something like this to load your .vimrc at startup:
code:
alias vim="vim -c ':source scp://you@your_computer//yourpath/.vimrc'"

I do have a home directory I can access. Forgive me, but do I put this in my .bash_profile? I am not a regular Linux user, so I'm learning as I go here. Similarly, how would I get vim to load plugins installed to my home directory?

# ¿ Feb 20, 2015 18:05

The MUMPSorceress: Jan 6, 2012; ^SHTPSTS; Gary’s Answer

OK, so I figured out how to use vundle and make a vimrc, but it looks like clang_complete needs clang installed to work. How would I go about installing clang to my home directory? All the installation steps I can find assume I have full control of the machine.

# ¿ Feb 20, 2015 18:32

The MUMPSorceress: Jan 6, 2012; ^SHTPSTS; Gary’s Answer

Marsol0 posted:

When you do the ./configure step you can pass it --prefix=~/some/homedir/path and when you do make install it will go there.

Cool. Are these the right steps: http://clang.llvm.org/get_started.html
Checking out llvm is taking forever!

# ¿ Feb 20, 2015 20:07

The MUMPSorceress: Jan 6, 2012; ^SHTPSTS; Gary’s Answer

Well, it turns out the versions of GCC and Python on the school's computers are too old to even build llvm and clang. I don't suppose there's any other ways to get basic code completion for the standard C libraries, is there? I mostly just want it to catch when I typo printf to pritnf for the millionth time and remind me what the parameters are for library functions. Popping back and forth between the terminal and manpages is time-consuming when I just can't remember the order of parameters for a certain function.

# ¿ Feb 23, 2015 18:14

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