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on another note, work is finally giving me a mbp. Unlikely I'll get the cheap bastards to pay for much software so I may just make an attempt to migrate to vim thanks to this thread.

anyone recommend macvim instead?

I was only on quakenet (for gamers ldo)

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04-12-2011 , 08:39 PM

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Benholio

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Not on quakenet, but on efnet #quake forever back in the day. Man, that seems like eons ago.

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04-14-2011 , 07:51 AM

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DeuceThreeFlush

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dunno if it's been mentioned but i'm really liking Scite editor ATM and works awesome with AHK.

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04-16-2011 , 11:52 AM

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albacorela

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Some vi, but mostly use emacs. I tried eclipse; then wrote a plug-in "EditDetour" that lets me escape to emacs while working in eclipse.

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04-18-2011 , 10:32 AM

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MrWooster

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+1 for zenburn

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04-18-2011 , 10:07 PM

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diab0lic

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I use VIM for everything, VIM plugins for my browser, any IDE I use must have a vim plugin. Vim all the way, haha.

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04-19-2011 , 03:51 AM

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MrWooster

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I think its important to realise that vim on its own is pretty useless... but vim with the relevant plugins to your dev environment is all you will ever need.

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04-19-2011 , 05:33 AM

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Neil S

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Originally Posted by MrWooster

I think its important to realise that vim on its own is pretty useless...

Uh, no. Why would a top-notch editor be useless on its own?

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04-19-2011 , 05:43 AM

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MrWooster

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That might have been a poor choice of words.... I was trying to make the point that its the plugins for vim that really make it into the super editor it is (the same could also be said for emacs)

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04-19-2011 , 08:39 AM

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diab0lic

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I'd disagree. I'd say its the modal editing that really makes it so great. I often use the default install on servers at work to regex the hell out of config files, etc...

Learning vim has saved me countless hours.

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04-19-2011 , 08:51 AM

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Neil S

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I have one custom function to complete words with tab, except when I obviously want to indent but that's it.

Code:

inoremap <Tab> <C-R>=SmartTab()<CR>

function! SmartTab()
	if strpart( getline( '.' ), 0, col( '.' ) - 1 ) =~ '^\s*$'
		return "\<Tab>"
	else
		return "\<C-P>"
	endif
endfunction

So yeah, I'm not sure that plugins are the key for Vim. Certainly not in my experiences.

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04-19-2011 , 09:32 AM

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MrWooster

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I use Supertab http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1643 , it works out the best completion method automatically... this is one of the plugins I use the most.

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04-19-2011 , 11:09 AM

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Neil S

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Thanks. I'll have to read about that one.

What I'm using I pulled from KDE a bajillion years ago.

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04-21-2011 , 03:45 AM

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Shoe Lace

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I was thinking about giving vim another shot. Was bored so I looked for a few color schemes.

http://www.vi-improved.org/colors.php

This site appears to be awesome.

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04-21-2011 , 09:45 AM

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diab0lic

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Originally Posted by Shoe Lace

I was thinking about giving vim another shot. Was bored so I looked for a few color schemes.

http://www.vi-improved.org/colors.php

This site appears to be awesome.

There is a lot of good, free vim information available online these days as it has made quite the comeback in the past few years. To get started I'd highly recommend The Semi-Official IBM developerWorks Cheat Sheet

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04-21-2011 , 11:42 AM

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I use all of the following editors on a nearly daily basis

WingIDE Professional:
I use this for all python work. Nicest python IDE imo ($$$ though). Has vim and emacs key bindings, an excellent debugger (you can even debug django templates), awesome call tips and intellisense. Can blast out code significantly quicker than in emacs with Wing especially when dealing with a large library like Wx.

Emacs:
Emacs is my main non-python editor for writing other stuff (C, HTML, LaTex, notes, love poems etc). Spend a lot of time in here.

vim:
Making quick edits to files/scripts from the command line, editing files over SSH etc. I'm comfortable with vim but far from a power user. I do enjoy watching Vim ninjas work

Excel VBA IDE
Day job at a major hospital

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04-21-2011 , 01:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Neko

WingIDE Professional:
I use this for all python work. Nicest python IDE imo ($$$ though). Has vim and emacs key bindings, an excellent debugger (you can even debug django templates), awesome call tips and intellisense. Can blast out code significantly quicker than in emacs with Wing especially when dealing with a large library like Wx.

Hmm.. This looks interesting, particularly the GAE integration. Looks like it could save me some trips to the docs.

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04-21-2011 , 01:32 PM

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Excel VBA IDE

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04-21-2011 , 01:41 PM

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TheIrishThug

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I remember the VBA IDE and the fact that you had to install a plugin to get it to recognize the scroll wheel on the mouse. Those were dark times.

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04-21-2011 , 01:55 PM

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diab0lic

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Originally Posted by Johnny Douglas

Hmm.. This looks interesting, particularly the GAE integration. Looks like it could save me some trips to the docs.

PyCharm looks like it offers the same set of features for a fraction of the price, especially so now that its on sale for 50% off. I've used their ruby equivalent and reSharper and can say they are both well worth the money.

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04-21-2011 , 05:55 PM

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It seems like you need to be some type of wizard to get vim's color schemes to work properly. Any advice? I've been Googling like a maniac with no luck.

The problem is, no matter what theme I use the background in vim is never white and the other colors seem to be off too. If I do a set background=light within vim it does not change it.

I'm using Putty with the default settings (Windows 7) to login to my dev box (Gentoo). Vim is version 7.3 and I installed it by doing a default "emerge app-service/vim".

My $TERM variable is set to xterm but I also tried putty-256 (I think this was it, I Googled it a while ago).

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04-21-2011 , 08:38 PM

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Neil S

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I wrote my own color set for vim ages ago.

The line that gets a white background in gvim is this

highlight Normal guifg=#000000 guibg=#ffffff

If you're in the console I don't know that offhand.

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04-21-2011 , 08:55 PM

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Shoe Lace

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That has no effect on my screen at all. If I type this:

:highlight Normal ctermfg=grey ctermbg=darkblue

Then it does what it should do but it won't accept hex values for the color and some of the pre-existing color schemes that ship with vim use a combination of both ctermfg/guifg and guibg/ctermbg.

Zzz, it seems like the gui prefix is used for gvim only and cterm is for using vim through a terminal. Is there no way to let Vim know that Putty is capable of handling any color? (I assume it can because you can setup RGB values in the color settings of Putty).

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