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Re: Turning vim into an IDE through vim plugins

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Post by pjmlp » Tue, Nov 07, 2017, 8:00 AM UTC

user5994461 wrote: post #56

Asooka wrote: post #31

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Depends on the language. For C/C++ there is rtags, which compiles your code with clang and extracts type info, after which it can find all usages of said method on the exact class you're searching for. I personally use ctags and rtags together for code browsing, to alleviate problems one or the other has. Rtags can be a bit unstable and slow-ish, while ctags is just for definitions and somewhat of a dumb text search.…

I think we can all agree that all C++ editors are a complete disaster. The language is too hard to parse and process, noone ever managed to make good tools. Visual studio and Qt Creator are the least worst IDE. The first one only works on Windows obviously. They are both free so I am not sure why you'd mention pricing issues??? Visual Studio has the best debugger by far, I'd go as far as saying it's the only debugger…

KDevelop, Netbeans and Eclipse CDT are also quite good.

Re: Turning vim into an IDE through vim plugins

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Post by IChrisI » Tue, Nov 07, 2017, 9:11 AM UTC

user5994461 wrote: post #55

executesorder66 wrote: post #32

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> Ctrl + X works on most 'gui text editors' Really? Even if you haven't selected the line? Because if you haven't selected the line then you'll have to use your mouse first or do the home + shift + end + Ctrl + X to delete the line. I remember Ctrl + D does this (without needing to select the line) in Eclipse. But it's still faster to type dd than Ctrl + D > How does "find references" work in vim? https://stackoverfl…

Ctrl + D is delete the line on some editors, duplicate the line on some editors. Prepare to be surprised when trying to to use it across environments. Ctrl + X is the shortcut for cut (as in cut then paste). It cuts the current selection. It doesn't auto select the line if there is no selection.

Every editor is different, including vim. In Sublime Text 3, it's Shift+Delete to delete a line, and whether it goes to your clipboard or not depends on a config setting. There's a shortcut to duplicate a line too, but I don't remember the default because I've customized it.

Re: Turning vim into an IDE through vim plugins

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Post by Svenstaro » Wed, Nov 08, 2017, 4:11 AM UTC

bechap wrote: post #2

Having seen this article when I first started using vim seriously, I'd recommend fzf.vim in place of ctrl-p and ALE in place of Syntastic. The former I find is much more performant, and the latter takes advantage of Vim8 / neovim's asynchronous features. Plus, fzf.vim comes with Ag, which effectively replaces Ack.vim (albeit, with a little bit of tweaking).

I think you can get better results with ctrlp when using cpsm as its matcher. fzf.vim always starts at the top and cpsm actually minds your current file.