I've been using Vim for a good 3 years on Windows now and this is the only thing that actually works for me. None of that deoplete, YouCompleteMe, WeCompleteEachOther stuff requiring 12 versions of Python, Lua and when you get everything you find out you needed NTS PHP 7.3 to make the legacy language server work but it actually doesn't, because the extension needed to make it work only works on Linux. I don't know if you created this, but jeez I hope to donate soon!
I've been sitting on my suckless arch setup for almost a year now, but every now and then there comes a time where you discover a whole new realm of possibilities and customizations to be made. I found your channel just today because of groff tutorials, but oh boy, you have some eye-opening content here and I can already tell I'll be going down the joyful spiral of reconfiguring my workflow once again. For that I thank you very much, and you've earned an honorable spot on my RSS subscription list. Cheers!
This video was so cool and informative that I was forced to subscribe your channel. The channel has also some pretty awesome stuffs about vim, groff, shell etc. I hope you will upload more such videos in the future. Thanks a lot in the end.
I think your sense for what *noremap does is wrong. It's not about whether we can overwrite the expression in the LHS, but whether the stuff in the RHS can be interpreted as mappings. map x y map z xy " Pressing z now does yy noremap z xy " Pressing z now does xy, ignoring the x mapping
Thanks, this video has always had a special place in my heart. It's probably the most vimscript (a guilty pleasure of mine) in one video and still gained a decent amount of attention in spite of the poor video quality. As far as looking young I just look younger than I really am.
I think that my preferred completion method would be some sort of global ctags. I had a setup running a while back, but I didn't like it, I don't really need autocomplete for c anyways.
Can you explain more what vim-lsp actually does ? I'm using ALE with Typescript project, and when I open a ts file, it will try to find tsserver, auto start tsserver server and use that LSP. If I use vim-lsp, it will stand between ALE and tsserver ..? seems vim-lsp is also a lsp-client as ALE, is there any way to combine two of them. Hope to see your reply. Nice work, guy!
I would recommend going with just one of the 2. If I was to pick I would use vim-lsp since it does a better job at handling language server integration (IMO) than ALE and you can replace most of ALE's functionality with github.com/mattn/efm-langserver.
I'm having a little trouble using omnicompletion on c files. I have tried both set omnifunc=ccomplete#Complete and also set omnifunc=syntaxcomplete#Complete. It seems to work on js files like in the video, but I haven't had any luck with c or cpp. Any help would be appreciated!
I know it's old comment but I has some trouble with it too... I wanted a simple way to do it aswell, may not seem so simple but works for me. I tried to do tags in vim but didn't want to have my project tags file in separate direction... Generate ctags file with "ctags-universal --c++-kinds=+pf --extras=+q -R ./include/ ./src/" Then see if you have "set tags=./tags;/" on vimrc and you should have i_CTRL+N auto completion for namespaces, structs, enums and classes etc. ( i_ in front is just to tell it's insert mode key mapping) To go through tags list you use i_CTRL-X CTRL-] to get full list in Vim and then CTRL-N or CTRL-P I generate ctags under .vim/ folder in project tree, but snipped it off from these scripts... About "set tags=./.vim/tags;/"... it starts from current location, and leaves directories and check between each if it finds .vim folder and tags in them, until it ends up in root /. I presume it works quite well in projects with large directories.
Kinda, but it's a little different. Completion-at-point (built in) is similar to omnicomplete but it takes a list of functions to apply similar to how mucomplete worked. When it comes to individual functions for each action there is a emacs package called cape (3rd party) which is basically a collection of extra completion functions you may want. The default interface is pretty different but you can use either the company package or Corfu (both 3rd party)
Cool video. For me it's just too much work for the reward. I'd rather use coc as I'm new to neovim and still want to get code written right away without investing so much time in settings. Maybe one day I can see the benefit in this but as of now it seems extreme for my case. I love vim and I hate the setup process lol. I guess I'm still in a state culture shock. This was great information nonetheless and perhaps my perspective will change soon.
In answer to your question, I use the built in manual completion. I find autocompletion intolerable, because it spits all sorts of visual noise on my screen and often covers up important parts of the text.
Totally get where you are coming from. Sometimes I just want as much context as possible. Having a pop-up window I didn't ask for just disctupts my workflow.
@@GavinFreeborn It was a pretty nice video though; completion is one of the dark corners of vim I had never looked into very deeply. This made it seem a lot less dark.
