You can theme it install plugins shortcuts and create reusable worksapaces that you can use to bootstrap common terminal workflows. It's an astonishingly powerful way of working, and frees me from having to haul my laptop around so much.īeyond that, there are numerous ways that you can customise and tailor Tmux to your needs, much like Vim. I may create a Tmux session and do some work on my laptop while at a cafe, then come home and immediately reattach to that session on my desktop. ALE makes use of NeoVim and Vim 8 job control functions and timers to run linters on the contents of text buffers and return errors as text is changed in Vim. This enables me to have my entire development environment on that single VPS. ALE (Asynchronous Lint Engine) is a plugin for providing linting in NeoVim 0.2.0+ and Vim 8 while you edit your text files, and acts as a Vim Language Server Protocol client. I do all my development work on a remote VPS that I ssh into. Below I have highlighted a sample list of my favorite Vim plugins.
I know this topic has been covered a million times but having a centralized reference for how to set up each plugin is a little bit harder to find. This is how it can achieve that functionality of allowing you to 'detach' and 'reattach' to a Tmux session.įor me this is one of the major benefits of Tmux. The plugin system in Vim is a little bit confusing at first but is really powerful once you get past the initial learning curve. ' System vimrc file for MacVim set nocompatible filetype off ' required ' set the runtime path to include Vundle and initialize set rtp+/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim call vundlebegin() ' alternatively, pass a path where Vundle should install plugins 'call vundlebegin('/some/path/here') ' let Vundle manage Vundle, required Plugin 'VundleVim/Vundle.vim' ' The following are examples of different formats supported.
That's just not possible./u/tanishq_dubey did a good job of explaining the benefits of using Tmux over native iTerm pane splits.Īdding on to their comment, Tmux basically works by running as a demon on the host machine. ' system vimrc file for macvim set nocompatible filetype off ' required ' set the runtime path to include vundle and initialize set rtp+/.vim/bundle/vundle. I just cannot imagine any other IDE or text editor with 400 plugins installed. I just checked - I pull over four hundred Emacs packages in my config, including built-ins and dependency libs. Are you having trouble installing any other plugins Try running :scriptnames and check 1) that. It fits in well with some other amazing vim plugins like vim-bufferline, fugitive, unite, ctrlp, minibufexpl, gundo, undotree, nerdtree, tagbar, vim-gitgutter, vim-signify ,quickfixsigns, syntastic, eclim, lawrencium, virtualenv, tmuxline, taboo.vim, ctrlspace, vim-bufmru, vimagit, denite, etc. They also have to "play nicely" with each other. Hm, sounds like Vim hasnt loaded the plugin for some reason. I believe, Emacs held the crown of "the most malleable" tool for over forty years, specifically because it builds on top of Lisp. > I think emacs having more plugins is a consequence of its design and philosophy, not the extension language itself a completely cross platform distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, GVim and MacVim stays true to it's vim roots while adding modern features including a plugin management system, a curated plugin set with customized configuration, advanced autocomplete, tags, support for dozens of languages and much more. Definitely not the most ideal, but certainly the best one we have today. Emacs Lisp is not just a text editor, IDE, email client, project management tool, scientific calculator, etc.Įmacs, first and foremost is a Lisp environment. To understand what makes Emacs so awesome, one has to understand the philosophy of Lisp. but i use it to take advantage of the python. if you like the dedicated editor open all the time g/macvim might be a better choice. if you use the terminal a lot, i think it's just logical for your editor to live there as well. It may not be the best of Lisps, but even a bad Lisp can be far more powerful than many other non-lispy languages. imo, if you're just starting to learn vim, you should start with w/e is the easiest for you. emacs lisp is not the best language in the worldĮmacs-lisp is a Lisp.