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#Macvim faster than terminal macvim code

The ZSH plugin lets me talk to my running Vim instance from wherever I happen to be. My experience with IDEs (and yes, I've used them) leaves me wanting in a number of areas, but one of the most crucial is any integration with the Unix shell. I use ZSH, along with the oh my zsh configuration package and a custom plugin that interacts with Vim. It's possible that Vim is the second most important tool in my day-to-day, if not my Scala workflow specifically the most important one is the Unix shell.

#Macvim faster than terminal macvim code

,of flips me between a "production" source code file and its test file companion, and vice versa using some custom Vim code I wrote for Scala files.

,fb helps me switch to a loaded buffer somewhere, again using CtrlP.

,fr opens a file using CtrlP from anywhere in the project.

While inside Vim I use various plugins to navigate between files, and then classic Vim techniques to manipulate windows and do all of the text twiddling magic that all Vim users are used to.

SBT does its thing in the terminal all day long (running ~test) while I get to code in Vim. This is exceedingly simple it involves only two GUI elements: Vim and a terminal window. Watch it on Vimeo using this link, or just watch it below.Ĭoding Scala in Vim from Derek Wyatt on Vimeo. I'm one of those people, and have finally gotten around to sharing how I code Scala with Vim in a screencast. There are Vim users and there are Scala coders and, occassionally those two wonderful things happen to get mixed up into the same person.