Jedi-vim VS YouCompleteMe

jedi-vim does autocomplete, docstring/signature/stub lookup, usage finding, bulk renaming...

The readme for jedi-vim says it works with Python 3:

To be able to use ctags you have to run ctags in the source directory to generate the index files. But a better way is to just modify the keywordprg when in a Python buffer or even better use a plugin like pydoc.vim or jedi-vim

I added https://github.com/davidhalter/jedi-vim to my plugins in ~/.config/nvim/init.vim and ran PlugInstall and it worked, but whenever I try to open a python file and the autocomplete part should come up I get

But LSP is a critical part of my Python setup, where I use David Halter's jedi-vim for completion, renaming, go-to-definition, finding usages of variables, etc., so I'm definitely not opposed to LSP on principle. I guess I just found Latex wasn't a complicated enough language for me to benefit from the full suite of features an LSP provides.

Install linux (WSL) with this tutorial (assuming you are on windows) and go through this tutorial to get used to it. To write python scripts, use vim and install this plugin.

I think you can get that behavior with https://github.com/davidhalter/jedi-vim but I haven't tried it.

Firstly I will like to install Jedi for code completion in Python. The plugin can be simple and straightforward to install using any of the above plugin managers. Jedi-Vim provides some neat and clean** syntax analytics and autocompletion for Python in Vim**. You'll find the docs and installation process here JEDI-VIM

I've never used it, not really a python gal, but from what I read, jedi sounds like a good one (https://github.com/davidhalter/jedi-vim).

See https://github.com/davidhalter/jedi-vim

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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