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Maybe somebody could help me to figure out how to save files properly with vim. I made a script that opens all the files I need. I call the script with: :source scriptname. Only problem is that the script works only if I open vim with 'vim' and not with 'sudo vim' (by the way, why is that?). But if I open with 'vim', then it give me problem when I try to save...
> A word of caution first: there is no perfect symbol-based navigation for programming languages such as C++ or Java in vim, as vim doesn't perform any syntax analysis of the code. At least for Python, Vim's OmniCompletion does a reasonable job of figuring out function names: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/version7.html#new-omni...
> A word of caution first: there is no perfect symbol-based navigation for programming languages such as C++ or Java in vim, as vim doesn't perform any syntax analysis of the code. At least for Python, Vim's OmniCompletion does a reasonable job of figuring out function names: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/version7.html#new-omni...
I find VIM so difficult to get my head around. Emacs seems to make more sense.. is there any point in trying to grok VIM?
Maybe somebody could help me to figure out how to save files properly with vim. I made a script that opens all the files I need. I call the script with: :source scriptname. Only problem is that the script works only if I open vim with 'vim' and not with 'sudo vim' (by the way, why is that?). But if I open with 'vim', then it give me problem when I try to save...
I made a script that opens all the files I need. I call the script with: :source scriptname. Only problem is that the script works only if I open vim with 'vim' and not with 'sudo vim' (by the way, why is that?). Based on what you've said, I'm not sure if this is an sudo issue or a vim issue. Where is scriptname, and where are the files that scriptname references? Your sudoers may be set up to replace the environment…
I find VIM so difficult to get my head around. Emacs seems to make more sense.. is there any point in trying to grok VIM?
However, I like the Vim input model, where you combine commands (like delete or yank) to a motion (like a word, 3 words or everything inside these parentheses).
Emacs has the Viper mode, which gives basic Vi-style input model but it doesn't do advanced stuff like text objects.
IMO any serious coder should try both, Vim and Emacs and see which one works better.
I find VIM so difficult to get my head around. Emacs seems to make more sense.. is there any point in trying to grok VIM?
Why? I can do simple things faster (Delete a single char, delete a line, search/replace, etc.), it seems like a more logical way to write, and so on.
I find VIM so difficult to get my head around. Emacs seems to make more sense.. is there any point in trying to grok VIM?
Speaking as a longtime vim user, not if you already grok Emacs. The one really good reason I can think of is that vi is pretty much ubiquitous on *nix and might be better suited if you need a powerful editor which you can almost always expect to be there for you even over ssh.
> A word of caution first: there is no perfect symbol-based navigation for programming languages such as C++ or Java in vim, as vim doesn't perform any syntax analysis of the code. At least for Python, Vim's OmniCompletion does a reasonable job of figuring out function names: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/version7.html#new-omni...
For C and C++, clang_complete gives pretty good completion. https://github.com/Rip-Rip/clang_complete
I'd also like some more build system integration hooks (e.g. provide project-specific include dirs and CXXFLAGS on a per-file basis).