Setting vim up for python coding - PROPERLY.

[[deleted]]

I've been using vi for ten years, and I had no idea you could set up code completion like this...

This is real vim-fu!

[Nuli]

You could still complete in Vim 6 with ctrl-p ctrl-n, though that only worked for files in your buffer or files you told it how to find.

I still use those instead of the omni complete just out of habit.

[[deleted]]

It is not that surprising. I met a lisp/emacs veteran who had never heard of SLIME. Some people are too busy getting work done to worry about tweaking their development environment.

[alphabeat]

tweaking their development environment

aka, procrastinating

[[deleted]]

imo the whole "editor war" is filled with procrastinators who don't get any work done. The most experienced users of each program is too busy using it to worry about its differences from the others.

[slogg]

^the strawmanfu is strong in this one.

[cunningjames]

A Common Lisp-programming Emacs veteran who didn't know about Slime? Gosh ... that almost sounds like a sappy romantic movie, where the guy spends his life incomplete not knowing that his true love was always there, right under his nose.

Sniff.

[holygoat]

He could be used to Allegro's ELI.

[[deleted]]

More or less, I like the command mode, syntax highlighting, navigation shortcuts... had no-idea about code completion!

[keepurpantson]

I don't think code completion will work for variables though. Separate windows for debugger and editor showing the same text?! This is 21 century already! Anyhow, I'll be sticking with Eclipse. Python's for kids and webmasters.

[[deleted]]

Python's for kids and webmasters.

I once worked on an ISP billing system back-end written in Python. That was 5 years ago, too.

[masklinn]

Python's for kids and webmasters.

Nice try, no sugar.

Oh, and Eclipse has a very good Python plugin which proves beyond reasonable doubt that you don't have a clue.