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Minimalist Programming Environment

Tim Wright · 2014-12-17T16:34:35

First I notice Fabien Sanglard's description of learning vim while doing a code review of GIT. http://fabiensanglard.net/git_code_review/index.php Then I'm watching Hand Made Hero setup a minimalist envornment for Windows. https://forums.handmadehero.org/jace/videos/win32-platform/day001.html Very interesting. So I've been trying it out. I thought the learning curve would be steep, but so far it is a cliff. I have Windows 7, and have spent at least a week learning vim, figuring out what plugins to install, and trying absorb all this. Not to mention a *.bat file hard coded to use the Visual C++ compiler from the command line, and nothing else. The VC++ is used for debugging. No IDE, no build system, no project files, nothing. So far I've discovered these plugins which make vim very powerful. * Pathogen - for easy pluging management with GIT * NERDTree - text based file browser * Taglist + ctags - jump to functins definitions * YouCompleteMe - code completion And I'm sure there are others. Figuring out all the stuff you have to edit in the .vimrc has been challenging. Trying to get these things working on Windows is also a pain. These things were up and running on Linux in no time. I'm sure that the Mac version will be just as easy. I don't know about anyone else, but lately I feel like all I'm doing is installing, configuring, debugging, and hooking up other peoples code. Any change to the environment that breaks something can take days to resolve. Meanwhile, I don't feel like I'm coding anything. Not sure if I will stick with this, but it sure feels right.

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Started by Glass_Knife December 14, 2014 07:21 PM

32 comments, last by TheChubu 9 years, 4 months ago

FRex

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December 16, 2014 10:49 PM

NetBeans does too, it's nothing special: http://oi62.tinypic.com/6q8gw2.jpg

Fun fact about the article that started all this: git was probably coded in some version of MicroEMACS, since that's what Linus is using: https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z13odfc55lnzuzybu04cj1yx1py4xrsb1ps0k

So yes - reading git in vim is like "going back to the woods and living off the land"... but on Mars. What a twist.

21st Century Moose

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December 17, 2014 12:10 AM

for all the talk of VS being allegedly "bloated", it's actually the one IDE where you can tuck everything away and focus on code

The one IDE? Are you sure about that?