YouCompleteMe VS coc-clangd

For vim specifically, I've been using coc.nvim, which works pretty well for my needs, and I know its quite popular. Another fairly popular one is YouCompleteMe, which I had taken a look at for some other languages; but ended up just using coc as I can't justify using YCM once a year (if that) -- too much "headache" for not a lot of use, you know?

YouCompleteMe. A pretty good autocompletion plugin, though vim does have its own, somewhat useful built-in auto completion that requires more keystrokes

There are plugins to do semantic highlighting. I don't use any of them because I'm satisfied with Vim's native syntax highlighting and with tree-sitter (and also because I don't use LSPs), but searching for "Vim semantic highlighting" on DuckDuckGo yields this: https://github.com/ycm-core/YouCompleteMe. The highlighting used in its demo is too baroque for my taste, but looking at your VSCode screenshot, it looks like it would be right up your alley.

The plugin that is requiring Python3 is You Complete Me here is the link!! The Vundle link I was looking at is also in the body of my post.

I use vim for C++ coding, however it is a bit difficult to set up to make it productive. I use YouCompleteMe [0] for autocompletion, Vimspector [1] with the C++ plugin for debugging, ALE [2] for linting, along with a few other general plugins (such as NerdTREE for file view).

[0] https://github.com/ycm-core/YouCompleteMe

[1] https://github.com/puremourning/vimspector

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

I didn't make a complete list of requirements :) This issue makes YCM uninteresting to me, so I've not dug too deep into it.

my favorite is YouCompleteMe.

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I use coc.nvim with coc-clangd

I am currently using coc-clangd(https://github.com/clangd/coc-clangd) for c++ syntax highlighting. I use for coding sometimes, and I get an error because is only g++ header, not for clang. What should I do?

Using this plugin I have installed several extensions like coc-clangd and coc-rust-analyzer .

I don’t mean to be rude but, what about checking ‘configuration’ section: https://github.com/clangd/coc-clangd

use plugins. I prefer coc.nvim paired with coc-clangd Clangd is what CLion uses under-the-hood for a lot of its autocomplete/linting/etc., so this pair gets you fairly close. (you miss out on CLion's proprietary additions and AI completion, but for quick work or places CLion is too heavy, its great)

Not sure about setting up on OpenVMS, but I've been getting along with simple C/C++ projects with coc-clangd which was very easy to set up.

I forgot to mention before, with coc.vim, you will need https://github.com/clangd/coc-clangd to integrated c++

Thanks! I read about using LSP/Clangd with vim via [coc](https://github.com/clangd/coc-clangd) and I think that's the path I'll try going down.

Other responses, thanks for your input. Just want to clarify that I have tried VS and VSCode with limited success (sometimes search works, sometimes it doesn't, and my biggest gripe is an occasional lack of transparency into what's going on under the cover).