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Re: Plans for Vim 7.4

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Post by reledi » Fri, May 10, 2013, 6:28 AM UTC

sepeth wrote: post #10

oinksoft wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For internal purposes, you're probably right. For distribution and documentation purposes, I think it's much easier to understand "this plugin works on 7.3 or later" than "this plugin works on 2010-08-25 or later."

I think it doesn't have to include fully qualified date. For example, Ubuntu uses date-based versioning, e.g. 13.04

Thanks for pointing that out. It never occurred to me that their versioning is date-based.

Re: Plans for Vim 7.4

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Post by bostonvaulter2 » Fri, May 10, 2013, 7:07 AM UTC

oinksoft wrote: post #4

I am curious what "add IDE features" means. It seems like a wide-open feature request. A few things I can think of: * Better support for background tasks .. :mak, :grep, system(), :! without interrupting editing. * Fancier errorlist and locationlists. cexpr()/lexpr() really make you fit round pegs into square holes. * Better omni-completion performance (any completion dialogs other than , buffer keyword completion, a…

Why is everyone talking about "add IDE features", it doesn't sound like he is planning to implement that request. He was just listing out the top requests.

Re: Plans for Vim 7.4

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Post by arc_of_descent » Fri, May 10, 2013, 7:39 AM UTC

I've been using Vim for close to 10 years. Can't live without it. My only gripe is the session file created with mksession is quite huge in size.

Re: Plans for Vim 7.4

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Post by mercurial » Fri, May 10, 2013, 9:34 AM UTC

oinksoft wrote: post #4

I am curious what "add IDE features" means. It seems like a wide-open feature request. A few things I can think of: * Better support for background tasks .. :mak, :grep, system(), :! without interrupting editing. * Fancier errorlist and locationlists. cexpr()/lexpr() really make you fit round pegs into square holes. * Better omni-completion performance (any completion dialogs other than , buffer keyword completion, a…

In terms of "pointing out stupid mistakes to you before you try to compile/run your code", which is a very important IDE feature in terms of not wasting your time, you can go pretty far with syntastic[1]. This does not help with verbose languages which need autocompletion (you know the ones I'm talking about), managing import lists or automated refactoring, but it's still really good to have.

1: https://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic

Re: Plans for Vim 7.4

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Post by cm3 » Fri, May 10, 2013, 9:42 AM UTC

A properly integrated and efficient ido for vim would be nice. CtrlP didn't work as well the last time I tried.

Re: Plans for Vim 7.4

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Post by SandB0x » Fri, May 10, 2013, 10:24 AM UTC

darklajid wrote: post #34

SandB0x wrote: post #21

Would love a package management solution.

Vundle is what I use.

I use Vundle too but it's often frustating. The package management in Sublime Text looks much slicker, but then Sublime Text is slick overall.