VIM Destroys All Other Rails Editors

#1

Post by r11t » Thu, Dec 31, 2009, 1:32 AM UTC

VIM Destroys All Other Rails Editors
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Re: VIM Destroys All Other Rails Editors

#2

Post by Semiapies » Thu, Dec 31, 2009, 3:09 AM UTC

The headline is cheerful, ironic attention-grabbing; the writer acknowledges text editor choice is a preference, then lays out briefly how to set up vim for RoR development.

Re: VIM Destroys All Other Rails Editors

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Post by bprater » Thu, Dec 31, 2009, 3:15 AM UTC

Cream is a good VIM editor on Windows.

Re: VIM Destroys All Other Rails Editors

#4

Post by graywh » Thu, Dec 31, 2009, 3:41 AM UTC

+ for mentioning all tpope's plugins/bundles.

- for some poor suggestions.

Re: VIM Destroys All Other Rails Editors

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Post by brianherman » Thu, Dec 31, 2009, 3:45 AM UTC

VIM DESTROYS ALL EDITORS PERIOD

Re: VIM Destroys All Other Rails Editors

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Post by gry » Thu, Dec 31, 2009, 3:52 AM UTC

graywh wrote: post #4

+ for mentioning all tpope's plugins/bundles. - for some poor suggestions.

Pray tell, what are your suggestions and criticisms? A friend of mine after a horrible computer bitswap, bit into vim after TextMate. I wanted to follow, just to learn. This is actually fantastic for me -- there are various . configs I knew nothing of, but now can grep/google for info.

Please advise.

Re: VIM Destroys All Other Rails Editors

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Post by jamesbritt » Thu, Dec 31, 2009, 4:00 AM UTC

bprater wrote: post #3

Cream is a good VIM editor on Windows.

I tried cream for a bit, and decided that I would be much better off juts learning to use vim qua vi, rather than trying to make it more like the typical win32 editor.

Re: VIM Destroys All Other Rails Editors

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Post by 10ren » Thu, Dec 31, 2009, 4:02 AM UTC

I too use tabstop=2

But `cat` uglifies it, so I added this to ~/.bashrc:

    alias tab='sed "s/\t/  /g" '

You needn't say "cat myfile | tab"; you can just use it exactly like cat: "tab myfile" (I'm not saying that you'd not instantly realize that - but that I didn't).

Re: VIM Destroys All Other Rails Editors

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Post by xiaomai » Thu, Dec 31, 2009, 4:12 AM UTC

10ren wrote: post #8

I too use tabstop=2 But `cat` uglifies it, so I added this to ~/.bashrc: alias tab='sed "s/\t/ /g" ' You needn't say "cat myfile | tab"; you can just use it exactly like cat: "tab myfile" (I'm not saying that you'd not instantly realize that - but that I didn't).

unless you prefer tabs, you can add:

set expandtab

to your .vimrc and then vim will magically insert spaces (according to your tabstop/shiftwidth) instead of real tabs.

:retab will turn all tabs into spaces for a file that already has tabs in it.

Re: VIM Destroys All Other Rails Editors

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Post by timmorgan » Thu, Dec 31, 2009, 4:22 AM UTC

I expected to see a bit more of how to use all those plugins. But I suppose a list of them is better than nothing.