vim as a programming ide
I used to use slickedit, qt-creator, idea (webstorm, goland), vscode, but I am back to vi now. Thanks for Plug I do
not need to configure my setup everytime……. I am still using sublime edit(as a notepad)
vimr is one of the best nvim-gui. But it does not in active development in last 3 months(It is hard for a one developer project), some of the crash durning coding is annoying. I only use nvim/vim + kitty now.
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nvim+kitty configured with pop menu:
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nvim clap preview:
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nvim+kitty coc+ale:
Vim Plugins
I used following plugin a lots
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PlugPlugin management tool
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vim-clap
Best plugin for search anything. I used it to replace fzf, leaderF, leaderP, NerdTree, Ag/Ack/Rg, yank(ring), project management. undolist and many more
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coc.nvim
I disabled vim-go and turn to coc-go. Replace defx with coc-explorer, use coc-spell for spell check coc-snippet replaced my ultisnips. Also, there are coc for yml, json, prettier, python, rust, PHP (any language vs code supported)……
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ALE
well, I am still using ALE and configure lots of lint tool with it.
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Programming support:
YCM (used to be my favourite, only for C++ and python now), but I am using coc.nvim more offen now, vim-go(for go testing, highlight, gopls disabled),CompleteParameter, emmet-vim, tagbar/vista, polygot, and some language specific plugins (e.g html, js/ts, swift), ctags/gutentags, vim-less, govim(macvim only, with some cool AST)
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Debug:
vimspector
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Theme, look&feel:
onedark, eleline, devicons, startify, powerline, indentLine(with nerdfont),
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Color:
nvim-colorizer.lua (display hex and color in highlight), rainbow, log-highlight, limelight, interestingwords
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Git:
fugitive, gv, coc-git
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Format:
tabular, coc-prettier(or, sometimes prettier), auto-pair
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Menu and tab: quickui(created a menu for the function/keybind I used less often. I can not rememeber all the commands and keybinds….) wintab: one of the best buffer management tool
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Tools: floatterm, coc-todolist
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Move and Edit:
easymotion, multi-cursor (has ome bugs with auto-complete. check this: You don’t need more than one cursor in vim ), vim-anyfold (better folding)
Shell
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Some of the benfits of kitty:
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Fully GPU/OpenGL rendering
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Easy split/tabing
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Configurable font. You can configure multiple fonts for display. e.g. my configure:
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font_family FiraCode Retina
italic_font InconsolataLGC Nerd Font Italic
bold_font FiraCode Semibold
bold_italic_font InconsolataLGC Nerd Font BoldItalic
# Font size (in pts)
font_size 16.0
Why am I doing this:
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bold font is too heavy… semibold is less distracting
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Retina font is better than regular (I guess…)
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nerd font support
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Some font do not have italic (e.g. Cascadia)
nvim+kitty split view:
