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Re:Vim 8.2 by camgunz on Thursday December 12, 2019 @01:00PM (#21774375)
Vim's included Python support already does language-specific stuff like syntax highlighting and indenting. I think people use Jedi for autocomplete; I've never used it.

I'm one of the "computing for the apocalypse" people who try and configure things as little as possible, but I'm really attached to linting in Vim, and I use ALE [1] for this. AIUI it's the standard for asynchronous linting; Syntastic is the synchronous version, but the lag is juuuust a little too much for me.

netrw (Vim's included file browser plugin) has a lot of bugs on macOS, so I use NERDtree there, but have been thinking about looking around at nnn, defx, vim-netranger, etc.

Other than that, Vim has a lot of powerful configuration. It's worth looking around and fixing any immediate pain points you have; odds are there's an option that does what you want. Three cheers for mature software!

[1]: https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale

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Re:Vim 8.2 by bloke_zero on Monday December 16, 2019 @05:49AM (#21802184)
Ale is great - lints, checks, fixes - rules my world. A little complex to get going for multiple languages but when you do it's very powerful.

BTW worth checking https://github.com/justinmk/vim-dirvish as a lightweight alternative to NerdTree or netrw.

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Re:Vim 8.2 by camgunz on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @12:13PM (#21815745)
Oh wow, thanks for the tip. Gonna check it out.
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