Trying to setup Vim.

[Gat Pelsinger]

I am trying to learn Vim. How should I set it up? How do I get features like Intellisense, syntax highlighting and real-time error checking? Or, do I use Vim in VS code (I don't want to)? Also, I see other's having fancy terminals, although I don't think they are on Windows. I have the new Windows terminal but that ain't fancy enough.

[LloydLynx]

Just use plain Vim and look up how to do things as you go.

[Sauron]

You could write several books on all the things you can do to customize vim... a good starting point would be installing a plugin manager, for example vundle, and going from there...

7 hours ago, Gat Pelsinger said:

How do I get features like Intellisense, syntax highlighting and real-time error checking?

Syntax highlighting is built in to vim. "Intellisense" is the specific name of visual studio's autocomplete engine; you can't get it on vim but you can get something similar, for example youcompleteme, as a plugin.

7 hours ago, Gat Pelsinger said:

I see other's having fancy terminals, although I don't think they are on Windows. I have the new Windows terminal but that ain't fancy enough.

Why is it not "fancy enough"? What do you want from your terminal that the windows terminal doesn't do?

[AamirA]

ThePrimeagen has some really good vim videos. I would highly recommend watching some of his videos; he is the one who got me interested in vim. He has a video about setting it up (for neovim which is just a better version of vim):

And a playlist of videos about using vim:

 

[Gat Pelsinger]

@Sauron @AamirA

 

Update. I customized some stuff. Apparently the "fancy terminal" I was talking about is gvim itself? My vimrc-

 

set clipboard=unnamed
set backspace=2
set guifont=Fira\ Code\ Bold:h12
colorscheme elford
syntax on
set nu
set laststatus=2
call plug#begin('~/vimfiles/plugged')
Plug 'itchyny/lightline.vim'
Plug 'lambdalisue/vim-fullscreen'
call plug#end()
set guioptions -=m
set guioptions -=T

 

I am trying to go fullscreen in gvim. Meaning removing the titlebar itself and going completely fullscreen. That fullscreen plugin I installed only maximizes the window. And I am still looking for how to add my compilers, syntax highlighting (it doesn't work beyond vimrc file for some reason) and maybe autocomplete. Like how do I code in this thing instead of using it as notepad?

[Dat Guy]

On 12/13/2023 at 1:20 AM, Gat Pelsinger said:

Like how do I code in this thing instead of using it as notepad?

 

Probably the most relevant question here is why you want to use Vim. It will not make you a better programmer and chances are that you'll never reach the point where you saved more time with Vim's keybindings than you spent learning them.

[Gat Pelsinger]

7 hours ago, Dat Guy said:

 

Probably the most relevant question here is why you want to use Vim. It will not make you a better programmer and chances are that you'll never reach the point where you saved more time with Vim's keybindings than you spent learning them.

Programming fetish. I just like to flex using the terminal.

[Dat Guy]

There are easier terminal editors. I recommend micro.