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VIM is the perfect IDE (at least for me)

johncoltrane 10y ago
About your 'vimrc'… * 'set nocompatible' is useless. * 'syntax on' also does 'filetype on'. Why enable something if you are going to disable it a few lines below? You should move that line to your "Theme and Styling" section. * Why is 'set nowrap' not in the "Configuration Section"? * 'set encoding=utf-8' is generally useless on Mac OS X. Your whole config is broken if you need it. * 'set backspace=indent,eol,start' is not an "OSX stupid backspace fix"; it's needed everywhere. And… why is this setting not in the "Configuration Section"? * 'set ruler' is overridden by your "fancyline" plugin so it's useless. * 'set t_Co=256' is useless, Vim can determine that on its own. * 'set background=dark' is also useless; your colorscheme already does that. * Your whole "Enable omni completion." section is useless; Vim already does all of that. * 'get(g:, 'elite_mode')' will always return '1' so you should simply keep your four mappings and scrap all that unnecessary configuration. * 'mapleader' and 'maplocalleader' are not set anywhere, not sure what's the point of a '<localeader>' mapping. * Your PHP and Elixir autocommands should be in dedicated groups or, ideally, in proper ftplugins. About your writeup… * Vim's built-in file explorer already does everything NERDTree does so why did you decide to add a second file explorer? Maybe you should explain that to your readers, don't you think? * Vim doesn't do autocompletion to begin with so any kind of autocompletion is like steroids. * Like with NERDTree, why Syntastic instead of the built-in ':help :make'? * Vim is not your IDE; it's the editor of your IDE.
- allanmacgregor 10y ago
  Thanks for the feedback John, I'm going review the vimrc comments and as well the write up ones. Cheers!
- allanmacgregor 10y ago
  Thank you! > Vim's built-in file explorer already does everything NERDTree does so why did you decide to add a second file explorer? Maybe you should explain that to your readers, don't you think? Chalk this one to personal preference but I really like NerdTree and find it easier to use. > Vim doesn't do autocompletion to begin with so any kind of autocompletion is like steroids. I was making reference to Omnicomplete > Like with NERDTree, why Syntastic instead of the built-in ':help :make'? Syntastic, again comes down to usability I love having the inline display of errors, have the syntax checks on file save and have the ability on languages like elixir to run 3 different tools automatically. > Vim is not your IDE; it's the editor of your IDE. Fair enough, but it doesn't make for a great title doesn't it ;P
arca_vorago 10y ago
Emacs not even mentioned as an alternative tried?
- allanmacgregor 10y ago
  Sorry I missed it from the list, I have more than a couple of times; latest try was spacemacs when I was starting into Elixir. It has never clicked for me

About your 'vimrc'… * 'set nocompatible' is useless. * 'syntax on' also does 'filetype on'. Why enable something if you are going to disable it a few lines below? You should move that line to your "Theme and Styling" section. * Why is 'set nowrap' not in the "Configuration Section"? * 'set encoding=utf-8' is generally useless on Mac OS X. Your whole config is broken if you need it. * 'set backspace=indent,eol,start' is not an "OSX stupid backspace fix"; it's needed everywhere. And… why is this setting not in the "Configuration Section"? * 'set ruler' is overridden by your "fancyline" plugin so it's useless. * 'set t_Co=256' is useless, Vim can determine that on its own. * 'set background=dark' is also useless; your colorscheme already does that. * Your whole "Enable omni completion." section is useless; Vim already does all of that. * 'get(g:, 'elite_mode')' will always return '1' so you should simply keep your four mappings and scrap all that unnecessary configuration. * 'mapleader' and 'maplocalleader' are not set anywhere, not sure what's the point of a '<localeader>' mapping. * Your PHP and Elixir autocommands should be in dedicated groups or, ideally, in proper ftplugins. About your writeup… * Vim's built-in file explorer already does everything NERDTree does so why did you decide to add a second file explorer? Maybe you should explain that to your readers, don't you think? * Vim doesn't do autocompletion to begin with so any kind of autocompletion is like steroids. * Like with NERDTree, why Syntastic instead of the built-in ':help :make'? * Vim is not your IDE; it's the editor of your IDE.

allanmacgregor 10y ago
Thanks for the feedback John, I'm going review the vimrc comments and as well the write up ones. Cheers!
allanmacgregor 10y ago
Thank you! > Vim's built-in file explorer already does everything NERDTree does so why did you decide to add a second file explorer? Maybe you should explain that to your readers, don't you think? Chalk this one to personal preference but I really like NerdTree and find it easier to use. > Vim doesn't do autocompletion to begin with so any kind of autocompletion is like steroids. I was making reference to Omnicomplete > Like with NERDTree, why Syntastic instead of the built-in ':help :make'? Syntastic, again comes down to usability I love having the inline display of errors, have the syntax checks on file save and have the ability on languages like elixir to run 3 different tools automatically. > Vim is not your IDE; it's the editor of your IDE. Fair enough, but it doesn't make for a great title doesn't it ;P

arca_vorago 10y ago

Emacs not even mentioned as an alternative tried?

allanmacgregor 10y ago
Sorry I missed it from the list, I have more than a couple of times; latest try was spacemacs when I was starting into Elixir. It has never clicked for me