I've been using pyclewn for debugging in vim. It works quite well on gvim with ballooneval to show the values of variables but the problem is I'm mostly using vim in a terminal so that I can't use the balloon feature.
I have found this but it looks abondoned already and I couldn't make it work as there's no installation instructions. Does anyone know a way to use ballooneval in terminal vim?
From documentation:
m +balloon_eval balloon-eval support. Included when compiling with
supported GUI (Motif, GTK, GUI) and either
Netbeans/Sun Workshop integration or +eval feature.
It's not quite clear though, whether this imply that terminal mode does not support ballooneval at all (or it's available in terminal mode when GUI is compiled in), but there's no clues to do that in the documentation.
So: it's highly unlikely that you can use ballooneval in the terminal mode without messing with the Vim sources.
Starting from Vim version 8.0.1309 there is support for balloon in terminal. Seems to be work in progress though.
You can find a usage example in the following issue:
https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/2481
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Frankly speaking, I want an integration of vim and IPython, and I know there is such a great vim plugin vim-ipython, I indeed tried this, but it doesn't work out on Windows7 and tried to make it work (non-trivial thing, little documentation about it, failed and gave up).
Now I want to know if it's possible to connect a running ipython kernel from vim and send code to it?
I had something very similar running at some point.
It's not a clean solution in a sense that there is no Vim/IPython integration (as far as I know given the way Vim core is written such integration is unlikely to happen) but it did work.
Install tmux terminal multiplexer (http://tmux.sourceforge.net/)
Launch two tmux panes inside the terminal, one for Vim, one for IPython
Install vim-slime plugin, configure it to use tmux (http://technotales.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/like-slime-for-vim/, https://github.com/jpalardy/vim-slime).
Now, whenever you'll select some code in Vim and press the slime shortcut (C-c C-c by default) it will be sent to the IPython session and executed.
I think this will get the behavior you want.
It's also agnostic to IPython and can be used with any REPL environment.
When I use MacVim, all the color schemes work and looks very rich in the window.
But when I fire up my Terminal and use Vi inside it, the color schemes look very very bad. Is there any setting/config I should set to let Terminal Vi use all the colors available by a color scheme.
Update: I use
MacOSX Lion
Terminal v2.2 with xterm-color
Vim 7.3
Thanks
You probably can't do this. It's not Vim's fault, it's your terminal's fault. The GUI has access to millions of colours and terminals generally have access to 256 (or much less, depending on your terminal). It just doesn't have the guts to show the same colours as the GUI version. That's also why all of the colour schemes for Vim have values for the GUI (e.g. guibg) and values for the terminal (e.g ctermbg). There's a GUI value for the powerful side, and a terminal value for the weak side.
This is one of the reasons why I only use the GUI version. You can easily marry the command line with Vim so that using a single GUI version is much easier. You can check out a video on how to do this at vimeo and I recently created a plugin for ZSH that makes it even easier, which you can get from Github
If configure your .vimrc with the command
set t_Co=256
you are configuring vim to allow colorschemes that use 256 colors. Maybe MacVim uses this configuration by default.
I'd advise trying CSApprox
On OS X especially you can get very good results for console Vim.
I use it on OS X, Debian & Fedora with good results for console Vim & Matt who wrote the plugin, is a very helpful guy & will do his best to get the best results possible for you if you run into problems.
I have used Stata and gVim on Windows for a while now. Recently I have switched to Linux, and I am planning to also change from Stata to R.
A friend of mine is using R and Emacs ESS which seems to work perfect, however i'd rather like to keep using vim. I have installed the vim-r-plugin2, however, i can only send code to a seperate terminal running R. I would much rather split my screen into a buffer running R and one buffer with my .R file, and then send code from one to the other. With ESS in Emacs this seems to work, you can run a terminal/R in a buffer without a problem. I haven't found a way to make this work. The R plugin for vim uses screen, and the only way to open a buffer running a shell I could find is the Conque Shell plugin.
I know that unlike Emacs, Vim is designed to be a simple text editor. However, having R run in a buffer seems just so much more practical.
I hope my problem is understandable, please bear with me I only recently switched to Linux and know virtually nothing about programming besides statistics. Thanks!
If you do not need to input unicode, you can consider using ConqueShell plugin.
In the meanwhile, the 'evil' (extensible vi emulation layer) mode has matured. This is a vim emulator running in Emacs and works quite well for me.
Another option, and forgive me for pointing you back to EMACS,
viper-mode
http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/RZ/software/emacs/viper/viper_3.html
It's an EMACS mode that makes EMACS feel more like Vim, while giving you full access to the wonderful, mind-boggling complexity of EMACS if you ever want it.
Finding vim plugin maintenance and configuring is too laborious and relies on external configurations (such as ruby) tricky. What I want is an IDE like Eclipse, Visual Studio, that I can use vim in. I still want to be able to use different modes (command, visual, insert), but I don't want these inbuilt commands to conflict with the IDE's commands.
I've heard PIDA is good for this but looks like a bit of a mission to configure on Mac.
Eclipse has a VIM plugin. Eclipse runs on OS X
http://www.vimplugin.org/
Also, I think the Komodo IDEs and editors have VIM bindings, but I have little experience with them. Apparently, they also run on OS X.
http://docs.activestate.com/komodo/4.4/vikeybind.html
I use Komodo Edit on OS X, Ubuntu and Windows. It's open source, supports a ton of languages and has good Vi/Vim key binding support without getting in the way of itself. It's also easy to add in support for additional key bindings. It's built on the Mozilla code base and can be extended with Add-ons (Remote Drive Tree/Source Tree/MoreKomodo are great examples). I also personally love being able to write macros for myself in either JS or Python to add extra functionality.
The full fledged IDE is worth looking at if you can use the extra features. For most of the things that I work on, I can't use a full fledged remote debugger so Komodo Edit suits my needs.
It also has built in SSH support all in a package that is very responsive on my 5 year old work machine with several 1000 line files open in tabs.
Emacs has a vi emulation mode called Viper ;-)
Besides the vim plugin for Eclipse there is also ViEmu for (amongst others) Visual Studio, if you are not afraid of shelling out some $. Haven't used it though, as vim is my IDE :)
This AutoHotKey script isn't quite what you asked for, but I mention it in case it's helpful.
As you say, PIDA has real Vim, nothing can come close to that. Keybinding emulation only goes so far. It's not that bad to get running on a Mac, Windows is a mission though.
QT creator has Vi bindings.
I have spent lot of time doing research on VIM. I am Windows guy since last 6 yrs and was using VS.
Now started working on Linux. I want to make VIM as close as possible to VS.
I want features like
Project Navigation
Files in Different Tabs
Search in Project
AutoCompletion
I have found plugins for the above requirements
Project Pligin
MiniExplore
Taglist
OmniComplete
I am not able to correctly set vimrc script.
When I try to open file from Project it gets open in different tabs.I want to get it open in different buffers.
Also when I want to close file in buffer , complete window gets closed.
Open taglist and project window makes all mess.
Has any one done settings with these plugin..
Could you guys please post your vimrc files??
It will save lot of time for newbies like me..
Vim is a very different tool than Visual Studio. Plugins may help you get certain bits of functionality you desire, but do not expect them to work exactly like VS, work well together, or even work at all.
If you are looking for a programming environment more like Visual Studio, there are many good graphical IDE's you can use such as NetBeans, Eclipse, Code::Blocks, KDevelop, Anjuta, etc. Some of these tools are, IMHO, better heavyweight IDE's than Visual Studio, and all are available on Linux for free.
You should either learn to use Vim the way it was built to be used, or find a different tool that suits you better. Shoehorning Vim into a surrogate for Visual Studio will probably cause you more pain than it's worth.
Yes it's different to VS, but that doesn't mean it can't be used in the same way. It's just not as easy to do it :)
Personally I go the other way and use ViEmu to get VS to behave like VIM. But I'm not in the same situation as the author of this question.
Why not have a dig through some uploaded vimrc files on dotfiles.org?
You can use the following script, Trinity.
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2347
It will require 3 more scripts, and Vim will look like an IDE.
The TagList at left, a file exporer (NERDTree) at right, and Source Explorer at bottom.
Also, you can find some very useful blog entries at
http://kevin-berridge.blogspot.com/search/label/vim
The author, Kevin, explains how to compile solutions form inside Vim. He also shows interfacing and jumping between them which is very useful too.
Furhermore, there is the script vim-visual-studio which can be found at
http://code.google.com/p/vim-visual-studio/
This script is using Python extension. I have Python 2.5 installed in Windows. I am using Gvim 7.2 which is compiled with Python 2.4. So, I have replaced the executables of Gvim as explained here:
http://www.gooli.org/blog/gvim-72-with-python-2526-support-windows-binaries/
So, Gvim became compatible with Python 2.5 and raised no problems. Also, a menu entry "Visual Studio" has appeared as expected. It connects to Visual Studio itself, and it works perfectly. It does not just compiles a file, it can compile a solution containing more than one project as in Visual Studio. You can even use the Vim's 'quickfix' feature. Hope this helps.
If you really want to have vim as the front end, try Eclim. It uses Eclipse as a backend daemon for code completion and project management, and vim as the interface.
If you only like vim because of the vi key bindings, but want it to be more IDE like, you could try the latest MonoDevelop that has it built in.
These plugins used to exist long before vim had tabs. I'd be quite surprised there isn't a way to tune these plugins to split windows instead of opening tabs.
Now I can't help you much as I don't use these specific plugins but other ones. You should look at their help (:h project, :h taglist, etc)
PS: in vim terminology (it will help you browse the help files), what you call "buffer" is actually called "window", while a "buffer" is just the text you are working on, it may be associated to a file, or not. For a given buffer, there may be no or several window displaying parts of the buffer.
you can give a try to eXvim
http://code.google.com/p/exvim/