BEbegriffs·Oct 22, 2015Submission
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haskell-vim-now
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begriffs / haskell-vim-now
haskell-vim-now
One-line Haskell Vim install
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5Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
980GitHub stars
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What it is
One-line Haskell Vim install
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Where it is used
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What people are saying
I highly recommend haskell-vim-now [1]. The author has a nice demo showcasing this setup, along with his virtual pair-coding environment [2]. With one install command, you get…
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Aug 2014 | 2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Sep 2014 | 2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2014 | 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2014 | 2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2014 | 2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Feb 2015 | 2015-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2015 | 2015-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2015 | 2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| May 2015 | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2015 | 2015-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2015 | 2015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2015 | 2015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2015 | 2015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2015 | 2015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
5 sourcesYes, I'd wager that regular Vim users employ a variety of plugins. Vim is a powerful editor out of the box, but it falls short of many IDE capabilities without leveraging plugins.
There are many packages on GitHub that will install and configure Vim for you with a variety of useful plugins and keyboard shortcuts out of the box--so after the installation is complete, you'll have a fully fledged Vim IDE ready to use.
One of my favorites is Joe Nelson's setup [0]. It's specific to Haskell development, but even if that's not relevant to your use-case, it's a very sleek demonstration of what Vim can do as an IDE--and a good starting point for customizing your setup (i.e. a very clean .vimrc file for inspiration). I use it basically as-is for my default Vim config and as a full IDE. Check out the keyboard shortcuts for quickly switching buffers
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, Git integration, and the shortcuts for visualizing project structure & quickly navigating files.
[0] https://github.com/begriffs/haskell-vim-now
Yes, all of this can be achieved using plugins, including immediate visibility of tabs and project structure. Check out powerline(https://github.com/powerline/powerline) or vim-airline(https://github.com/bling/vim-airline).
A nice configuration for Haskell which I often use to bootstrap new machines is haskell-vim-now(https://github.com/begriffs/haskell-vim-now). That includes almost all the features you mention.
In Why, oh why, do those nutheads use vi? (2007)I highly recommend haskell-vim-now [1]. The author has a nice demo showcasing this setup, along with his virtual pair-coding environment [2].
With one install command, you get a polished Vim/Haskell setup with tab completion, type inspection, Hoogle, hinting, unicode symbols, etc.
Also has a nice dark theme. In fact, I use it as my go-to Vim configuration on new systems, even outside of Haskell.
It also lets you pipe code to the Haskell REPL for live evaluation (via tmux).
[1] https://github.com/begriffs/haskell-vim-now
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sr8cAIwdBs
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In Using Emacs for Haskell development