Vim: Difference between revisions

[https://www.vim.org/ Vim] (vi improved) is a highly configurable modal text editor program for the terminal.   

== Installation ==

=== Using Home Manager ===

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   programs.vim = {

=== Vim Spell Files ===

You can configure home-manager to install spelling files into your user directory by packaging individual spell files.  Here' an example for neovim and French:

== Custom setup without using Home Manager ==

{{note|To get a general overview about how to set up your vim in nix, refer to [https://www.mpscholten.de/nixos/2016/04/11/setting-up-vim-on-nixos.html mpscholten's blog] }}

Vim plugins can be installed with the help of nix. You can omit using vim plugin managers and do everything in your <code>.nixpkgs/config</code>.

=== Using Pathogen as manager ===

There is a pathogen implementation as well, but its startup is slower and [VAM] has more features.  

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=== Add a new custom plugin to the users packages  ===

Sometimes you do not want to change upstream plugins, for this you can use  <code>vimUtils.buildVimPlugin</code> to create your own:

=== YouCompleteMe ===

Currently the youcompleteme plugin uses [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/8e7b1f2ac2e261d5a644fef860a0d050ea227c06/pkgs/misc/vim-plugins/default.nix#L695 unwrapped clang on linux]. This causes it to not find <code>stdlib.h</code>. There is a [https://github.com/andrewrk/genesis/blob/5f49cd9a8c2b61b9859a22102bc3f732add9461a/.ycm_extra_conf.py workaround] you can put in your <code>.ycm_extra_conf.py</code> file, which works by executing the C/C++ compiler and getting it to output the list of search paths - which includes the search path to find <code>stdlib.h</code>.

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