Well the weekend was a whirlwind tour of vim’s features and customizations. This was largely enlightening to me, I truly love vim, and this experience has only deepened that feeling.
Some customizations of note:
- The NERD Commenter, for smart programming comments.
- python.vim, updated highlight script, adds some pretty bells and whistles.
- pydoc.vim, give access to pydoc output in a split vim window. I have defined the extra keymap (nmap K <leader>pw) which is more natural in python mode than having access to shell man pages.
- taglist, a great class browser.
- python.vim, updated indent rules that are more inline with the python recommendations (align with open braces, etc).
These are the major enhancements I have used. They solve some of the editing and informational problems outlined in a good IDE. But it is not perfect yet, and will need some tweaking. the pydoc interface is not super smart, as it is confused by imported modules. Omnicompletion is very slow, and works poorly — though I am considering using the short cut <C-Space> as the completion instead of <C-x><C-o> as I find the latter awkward. I am still not sure about using smart tabs — that is not allowing tabs past allowed limits. I have written some code to enforce this, but it might be overly draconian.
I have also set up pylint as the python compiler, so I get error messages that I can correct according to style guidelines. This is awesome, though I need it to open another window so I can see the errors in a more explicit manner.
Anyway, the progress continues. I will have to put my head around the symbolic debugger. There seems to be a good project for gdb, called clewn, though it will be seen how easy it is to use pdb instead.
