I'm trying to get the Ideavim plugin to work correctly in Intellij IDEA and PyCharm, but the documentation is rather poor and I can't configure it properly.
For starters, the documentation tells me to choose the VIM keymap under Preferences/Keymap but there is no VIM keymap there before or after installing Ideavim.
Also, according to the documentation some plugins are suposed to be supported (altough the documentation doesn't say wich and only talks about vim-surreound), but even after putting the line in ~/.ideavimrc:
set vim-surround
The vim-surround commands simply don't work.
Also, where are the actions/commands list that can be used in ~/.ideavimrc to map some keybinding.
For instance, imagine I want to remap <leader> f s to save my file. Where do I find out the commands available so that I can put something like in ~/.ideavimrc:
let mapleader = " "
nmap <LEADER>fs :SaveFile<CR>
Vim-surround emulation is not released yet. You can download CI builds that include vim-surround support using a link at https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim.
In order to enable vim-surround, use:
set surround
You can list all the IDE commands available for mapping using :actionlist. See the documentation at the GitHub page.
Update: IdeaVim 0.46 supports vim-surround commands.
I need to work on existing freepascal project ( it's an open-source project double commander ), so I'm trying to set Vim for editing source files, but pascal support bundled with Vim is surprisingly ugly.
More, I can't even find anything for better pascal support. At least, I really need for working syntax and indent scripts (both of them are buggy by default).
It would be very nice to set up omnicompletion too, but it seems this is completely hopeless.
I will probably hack on syntax and indent scripts myself, but I can't believe we still don't have them, so I decided to ask first.
Perhaps you can improve the situation by telling Vim to use the "delphi" mode instead of the "pascal" mode (this trick works with Emacs too). The reason for this is that in general "Pascal" refers to the old language designed by Wirth in the '70, while Free Pascal incorporates many syntactical additions introduced by Turbo Pascal and Delphi in the following years. Most of the development on Vim/Emacs modes usually goes in the Delphi mode, not the Pascal one.
Have a look at http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3078. This will not provide autocompletion, but at least it will highlight keywords like "unit", "interface", "implementation", etc., as well as // comments, correctly.
As VIM 7.4.52 for Linux there isn't 'Delphi' option. So far, the 'Pascal' mode works good.
for a freepascal project (fpc), you need to get fpc.vim.
Doing it with 'Plug'
open your .vimrc file and add:
call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')
Plug 'vim-scripts/fpc.vim'
call plug#end()
reopen your vim, and use the command :PlugInstall
Highlighting
in order to highlight pascal use command:
:set filetype=pascal
this also enables indent for the code. and it will auto indent the existing code.
or you can use:
:set syntax=pascal
this may fail to indent.
I am trying to to use eclim for my daily development requirements. My .vimrc has some issues preventing few functionalities like code completion etc.
It would be great if anyone using eclim regularly share your .vimrc.
You can find my vim setup on github. I use eclim to do Android development.
See visualstudioinvoke.vim for how I launch Vim from eclim. This isn't necessary, but it's useful to start at the current line in the current file. It also sets up my eclim menu, bindings, and settings.
It's best to start the eclim server (by opening the "Eclim" eclipse tab) before you start gvim.
I have eclim's code completion mapped to Ctrl-Space.
You won't get any code completion for classes that aren't in the scope of the current file. To import, I have a menu option under Eclim > ImportMissing.
However, my vimrc might be pretty alien to you, so you might be better served whittling down your vimrc until you figure out what's breaking things. The default map for completions is Ctrl-x Ctrl-u. You can use :verb map <C-x> to search for maps that start the same way and it will show you where they're defined.
If you use SuperTab, try disabling it. SuperTab and eclim are both maintained by
Eric Van Dewoestine so they should be compatible, but you may have a SuperTab configuration problem.
You could also try updating all of your plugins.
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What are your favorite (G)Vim plugins/scripts?
Nerdtree
The NERD tree allows you to explore your filesystem and to open files and
directories. It presents the filesystem to you in the form of a tree which you
manipulate with the keyboard and/or mouse. It also allows you to perform
simple filesystem operations.
The tree can be toggled easily with :NERDTreeToggle which can be mapped to a more suitable key. The keyboard shortcuts in the NERD tree are also easy and intuitive.
Edit: Added synopsis
Tim Pope has some kickass plugins. I love his surround plugin.
Pathogen plugin and more things commented by Steve Losh
Taglist, a source code browser plugin for Vim, is currently the top rated plugin at the Vim website and is my favorite plugin.
I love snipMate. It's simular to snippetsEmu, but has a much better syntax to read (like Textmate).
A very nice grep replacement for GVim is Ack. A search plugin written in Perl that beats Vim's internal grep implementation and externally invoked greps, too. It also by default skips any CVS directories in the project directory, e.g. '.svn'. This blog shows a way to integrate Ack with vim.
A.vim is a great little plugin. It allows you to quickly switch between header and source files with a single command. The default is :A, but I remapped it to F2 reduce keystrokes.
I really like the SuperTab plugin, it allows you to use the tab key to do all your insert completions.
I have recently started using a plugin that highlights differences in your buffer from a previous version in your RCS system (Subversion, git, whatever). You just need to press a key to toggle the diff display on/off. You can find it here: http://github.com/ghewgill/vim-scmdiff. Patches welcome!
Elegant (mini) buffer explorer - This is the multiple file/buffer manager I use. Takes very little screen space. It looks just like most IDEs where you have a top tab-bar with the files you've opened. I've tested some other similar plugins before, and this is my pick.
TagList - Small file explorer, without the "extra" stuff the other file explorers have. Just lets you browse directories and open files with the "enter" key. Note that this has already been noted by previous commenters to your questions.
SuperTab - Already noted by WMR in this post, looks very promising. It's an auto-completion replacement key for Ctrl-P.
Desert256 color Scheme - Readable, dark one.
Moria color scheme - Another good, dark one. Note that it's gVim only.
Enahcned Python syntax - If you're using Python, this is an enhanced syntax version. Works better than the original. I'm not sure, but this might be already included in the newest version. Nonetheless, it's worth adding to your syntax folder if you need it.
Enhanced JavaScript syntax - Same like the above.
EDIT: Comments - Great little plugin to [un]comment chunks of text. Language recognition included ("#", "/", "/* .. */", etc.) .
Not a plugin, but I advise any Mac user to switch to the MacVim distribution which is vastly superior to the official port.
As for plugins, I used VIM-LaTeX for my thesis and was very satisfied with the usability boost. I also like the Taglist plugin which makes use of the ctags library.
clang complete - the best c++ code completion I have seen so far. By using an actual compiler (that would be clang) the plugin is able to complete complex expressions including STL and smart pointers.
No one said matchit yet ? Makes HTML / XML soup much nicer
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=39
Tomas Restrepo posted on some great Vim scripts/plugins. He has also pointed out some nice color themes on his blog, too. Check out his Vim category.
With version 7.3, undo branches was added to vim. A very powerful feature, but hard to use, until Steve Losh made Gundo which makes this feature possible to use with a ascii
representation of the tree and a diff of the change. A must for using undo branches.
Matrix Mode.
My latest favourite is Command-T. Granted, to install it you need to have Ruby support and you'll need to compile a C extension for Vim. But oy-yoy-yoy does this plugin make a difference in opening files in Vim!
Conque Shell : Run interactive commands inside a Vim buffer
Conque is a Vim plugin which allows you to run interactive programs, such as bash on linux or powershell.exe on Windows, inside a Vim buffer. In other words it is a terminal emulator which uses a Vim buffer to display the program output.
http://code.google.com/p/conque/
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2771
The vcscommand plugin provides global ex commands for manipulating version-controlled source files and it supports CVS,SVN and some other repositories.
You can do almost all repository related tasks from with in vim:
* Taking the diff of current buffer with repository copy
* Adding new files
* Reverting the current buffer to the repository copy by nullifying the local changes....
Just gonna name a few I didn't see here, but which I still find extremely helpful:
Gist plugin - Github Gists (Kind
of Githubs answer to Pastebin,
integrated with Git for awesomeness!)
Mustang color scheme (Can't link directly due to low reputation, Google it!) - Dark, and beautiful color scheme. Looks really good in the terminal, and even better in gVim! (Due to 256 color support)
One Plugin that is missing in the answers is NERDCommenter, which let's you do almost anything with comments. For example {add, toggle, remove} comments. And more. See this blog entry for some examples.
I like taglist and fuzzyfinder, those are very cool plugin
TaskList
This script is based on the eclipse Task List. It will search the file for FIXME, TODO, and XXX (or a custom list) and put them in a handy list for you to browse which at the same time will update the location in the document so you can see exactly where the tag is located. Something like an interactive 'cw'
I really love the snippetsEmu Plugin. It emulates some of the behaviour of Snippets from the OS X editor TextMate, in particular the variable bouncing and replacement behaviour.
Zenburn color scheme and good fonts - [Droid Sans Mono](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droid_(font)) on Linux, Consolas on Windows.
If you're on a Mac, you got to use peepopen, fuzzyfinder on steroids.
I use the following two plugins all the time:
project
vimoutliner
For vim I like a little help with completions. Vim has tons of completion modes, but really, I just want vim to complete anything it can, whenver it can.
I hate typing ending quotes, but fortunately this plugin obviates the need for such misery.
Those two are my heavy hitters.
This one may step up to roam my code like an unquiet shade, but I've yet to try it.
Txtfmt (The Vim Highlighter)
Screenshots
The Txtfmt plugin gives you a sort of "rich text" highlighting capability, similar to what is provided by RTF editors and word processors. You can use it to add colors (foreground and background) and formatting attributes (all combinations of bold, underline, italic, etc...) to your plain text documents in Vim.
The advantage of this plugin over something like Latex is that with Txtfmt, your highlighting changes are visible "in real time", and as with a word processor, the highlighting is WYSIWYG. Txtfmt embeds special tokens directly in the file to accomplish the highlighting, so the highlighting is unaffected when you move the file around, even from one computer to another. The special tokens are hidden by the syntax; each appears as a single space. For those who have applied Vince Negri's conceal/ownsyntax patch, the tokens can even be made "zero-width".
tcomment
"I map the "Command + /" keys so i can just comment stuff out while in insert mode
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