Comments on: Code navigation, completion and snippets in vim

By: Light at the end of the carpal tunnel: snippets in vim with snipMate | tail -f findings.out

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 01:39:24 +0000

[...] it will likely conflict with other completion plugins. Perhaps your language-based code completion (see this post if you haven’t set this up before). In my case, all was good until I opened a Python file, [...]

By: Samuel Huckins

Samuel Huckins — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:07:50 +0000

@mak: Some of the characters got escaped when I was editing this post. They are now correct.

As to your edit, the “” causes a carriage return. Without this, pressing TT will just put “:TlistToggle” in your command window, then you’d still need to press Enter to bring up the tag viewer. With the “” in place, “TT” will bring up the viewer. At least, that’s what I see what I test both ways.

By: ubersoldat

ubersoldat — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:57:28 +0000

The code navigation part is just GREAT! Thank you very much.

By: mak

mak — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:49:01 +0000

I am a newbie in using Vim, so I might be wrong in the following:

I think you should change “<” to “” in the first figure (i.e. “nnoremap TT :TlistToggle” to “nnoremap TT :TlistToggle” )

At least this is how it worked for me.

By: drdr.xp

drdr.xp — Mon, 18 May 2009 04:15:13 +0000

Yup, snipMate is quite good too. xptemplate is a bit more flexible and dynamical with supports of post-filter, repetition, item-popup-menu.
snipMate leads a clean style in both snippets file and in-time snippet rendering. And quite handy to use.

By: Sérgio Luiz Araújo Silva

Sérgio Luiz Araújo Silva — Sun, 17 May 2009 20:59:36 +0000

SnipMate – snippets with same syntax of texmate:
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2540

video:
http://vimeo.com/3535418

By: Samuel Huckins

Samuel Huckins — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:06:52 +0000

@drdr.xp That looks like an awesome addition, I shall check it out. Thanks!

By: drdr.xp

drdr.xp — Wed, 13 May 2009 03:28:19 +0000

If you want a better snippet system, I suggest my xptemplate plugin
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2611

screencast: http://www.vimeo.com/4571919

By: Python and vim: Make your own IDE | tail -f findings.out

Python and vim: Make your own IDE | tail -f findings.out — Sat, 09 May 2009 19:37:00 +0000

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By: Samuel Huckins

Samuel Huckins — Sun, 03 May 2009 17:05:02 +0000

Actually the reason I wrote this post, as well as the others on this blog, is exactly that there weren’t singular sources of information like this that I could find. vim.org has some great stuff, and there are countless articles and blog posts out there on vim. But I kept finding you needed to know what you were looking for.

There’s a steep learning curve if you are just starting out with vim. But try the suggestions here and in my other posts, change what you don’t like, and then more intelligently search for the bits you are still lacking.

And good luck, you’ll need it