I have about 19k lines of configuration files (actually in a DSL - Nagios) that I need to do a bunch of analysis on, come up with a refactor plan, and then implement.
I'm looking for - but not finding - a GUI text editor for Linux that supports global bookmarks - i.e. I can click on a line, give it a name/tag, and have it show up in a global list that I can click on and then jump back to. The key point is that it has to work across files, so I can jump from a location in one file to the corresponding location in another.
Since it's a DSL, I haven't been able to find any IDE that natively supports the language. I've tried Kate, but the bookmarks list is per-file only, and "tags" each line with the text of the line itself, no way to add a custom note.
Is anyone aware of an application that meets this objective feature set?
You can use the Eclipse IDE. Add both EclipseColorer - for syntax highlighting (try the .ini file format) and Eclipse Color Theme plugins. Together, these plugins work quite well for highlighting Nagios config files. It does the bookmarking and has a separate view port, that is detachable, to easily navigate them - even in multiple files.
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I have looked everywhere and I am still unable to switch off this 'feature'!
I've been using vi and, later, vim, since the 80's and I have never had need of multiple cursors, nor can I see a use for them.
:<range>s/search/replace/ does everything I need so this new feature is infuriating beyond words, especially as I've no idea how to switch it off when it seemingly-randomly appears.
Would someone be wonderful enough as to tell me how to banish, remove, consign-to-history the multiple cursors feature in VSCode Vim 1.12.4, please?
I believe this issue is specific to the plugin. I experienced it with the HTML plugin recently, and I'm assuming you have the same problem with HTML files, but the same principle should apply to other plugins as well. You just have to find the setting.
In the VS Code settings, there is an option that reads:
HTML: Mirror Cursor On Matching Tag
You can uncheck the box there to disable the feature. Or you can go to the settings.json in your local repo (inside the .vscode directory), or the equivalent global file, and add/modify the following field like so:
"html.mirrorCursorOnMatchingTag": false
That should take care of it for you.
I really want a way to switch programming contexts quickly without hunting for windows that I've left strewn about. What would be nice is a command line tool to let me switch between different patches that I might be working on, and automatically open the sublime text workspace that I had open the last time I was working on that patch. The issue is that in order for the tool to know about the workspaces associated with said patches, it either needs to be told about them explicitly, or it needs to be able to tell sublime to save the current workspace with a specific file path.
Sublime does have a save_workspace_as command, but it opens a saveAs dialog, which is not what I want, and I can't seem to find any documentation that suggests that save_workspace_as can take an argument.
Any ideas?
I am looking for recommendations on using VIM as an IDE. I generally code in a number of programming languages, including C, C++, assembler, MATLAB, Maple, BASH scripts, to name a few.
In general, I like to use a single IDE for the bulk of my projects for the sake of consistency, and I have found that I perform about 90% of all my coding in VIM, and occasionally use Eclipse instead for certain projects in C/C++ (ie: projects people have already put together as an Eclipse project, or PIC24/32 projects from www.microchip.com).
I am already very familiar with the basic functionality of VIM (windows vs buffers, text manipulation, scripting), and would like to use it as my primary IDE. I have already taken a few tips from here:
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Vim_like_an_IDE#Writing_Code
I already use the nerdTree plugin for directory browsing in a project, etc, but I need to do something about code completion and symbol resolution, as those are my two greatest concerns.
Symbol resolution
I have some limited experience in the use of C-tags, and wanted a suggestion on what I should use if I am working with a VERY large code-base that changes frequently. The projects I work on typically are pulling in header files from at least a dozen other projects, and I would like to be able to jump to the file where a function, constant, or macro is defined quickly (ie: like the CTRL-G feature in Eclipse, "jump to definition"), as well as rapidly get a list of all calls/references to a function/macro/constant/etc (ie: like the CTRL-SHIFT-G feature in Eclipse, "Show all references in project or current working directory").
Tab completion
One of the features I really like in Visual Studio and Eclipse, for example, is when I type in a variable name (ie: pointer to struct) and it resolves the names and types of all structure members and gives me a tab completion list to choose the appropriate member. They also point out when I've incorrectly used "." vs "->" for member access. I've tried superTab in VIM, but I just couldn't get it working. I also want the tab-completion feature to use the same C-tags as generated by the symbol resolution plugin
Handling build output
The final concern of mine is having an auto-generated list of build warnings and build errors. When I, for example, just run "make all" at the command-line prompt, it is a pain to have to read through code listings to manually find all build warnings.
I realize this is a lot to ask, and that I could always just fall-back to Visual Studio or Eclipse, but I really want just a simple cross-platform console-capable modal editor for all my development needs, and none of the major IDE's out there fill this need.
Thank you all in advance.
http://eclim.org/ - bring Eclipse functionality to the Vim editor
https://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic - syntax checker warnings in quickfix list
I think (but haven't checked) that Eclim satisfies #1 and #2 while I'm sure that Syntastic satisfies #3. More things of interest:
https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-powerline - just nice
https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim - quick file finder
https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen - plugin manager (to install the others)
And are you aware of omnicompletion via Ctrl-p and Ctrl-n (prev and next) in insert mode? That's not code completion, but frequently does the job.
For the auto-completion part (point 2), I am proficiently using clang_complete.
For a quick setup and reference, try this page: http://zwiener.org/vimautocomplete.html
EDIT: this is for C, C++ and Objective-C only.
I use the following configuration in vim:
zipped file
It has autocomplete based on tag list, ctags, nerd commenter and some more plugins.
Hope it helps.. :)
I have been using Vim as an IDE for about a year now. All of my customization is online at github.
That said, I don't think a Vim beginner should start using vim like this; rather I think the Vim beginner should learn vim incrementally. The only changes that I think are so essential I would make them from the very beginning are:
Remap ESC to jk
Switch : and ;
Set leader key to ,
Can VIM do auto code completion like what Eclipse does? Usually I connect to my Linux developing server through Putty from my Windows laptop. So, I hope I can find a plugin for VIM which can do drop-down menu like auto completion when I can type variable names in Putty, is this possible?
Thanks!
Yes, in a sense - Vim has Completion commands that can help you automatically find the completion text for partial variable names.
In a nutshell, type a partial variable name and then press CtrlP to search for a matching name.
Yes, it's possible. Vim already features that general style of code completion built-in, under the name of Omni completion.
The default installation doesn't allow for auto-invocation, but if you install this script, that allows it to happen.
Note that, depending on the language you'll be working with, you may need additional scripts to handle auto-completion for that language, and may even need to change the auto-invoke script to recognize when to invoke the completion. Since you haven't said what programming language you'll want to work with, it's a bit hard to say if you need more than this, but I recommend checking the help file.
Try to use http://eclim.org/ - using eclipse core with VIM via plugins.
To not start the complete ecplise core but have a C/C++ member completion, try
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1520
- Complete namespaces, classes, structs and union members.
- Complete inherited members for classes and structs
(single and multiple inheritance).
- Complete attribute members eg: myObject->_child->_child etc...
Currently vim has no of plugins for the auto code completion feature, I am using youcompleteme plugin, combined with vim-snippets, ultisnips and supertab plugins. You can tab complete the code using snippets (a small text which can be expanded for full code), and a large number of languages are supported.
For simple text files also a drop down menu comes for the words you have typed earlier.
I've looked at a number of the IDE style file explorer / management plugins for VIM. The most popular one seems to be Project, but I've never got on well with it. Specifically, having to always create a .project file for the files you want to browse, and that changes to that file hierarchy outside of VIM are not picked up.
I stumbled across the VTreeExplorer plugin and I really like the way it works. I'm trying to work out how I can make it work in a more IDE style way, for instance, to always open vertically down the full length of my window, and once I've opened a file from it, it automatically hides the VTreeExplorer buffer again? Also, ideally it wouldn't show up when I use :bn or a buffer explorer to tab through each file buffer.
Any recommendations would be appreciated. Thanks!
What about NERDTree? It is really good, one of the best file tree plugin for vim available.