pylsp-rope VS nerd-fonts

pylsp-rope is actually an external plugin project, it implements advanced refactoring functionalities using code action (extract method/variable, function inlining, converting local variables to instance variables, organise import, etc). Unless you have explicitly installed pylsp-rope at some point, it's unlikely you already have it in your system. I'm the author of pylsp-rope, btw.

If you're also a user of rope, which is a Python refactoring library, my python-lsp-server plugin pylsp-rope would also welcome contributions. They have a fairly small codebase, and so they would be relatively easy to pick up.

Currently the best way to use rope for refactoring (including extract, inlining, reorganise import, plus many more) in Neovim is with pylsp-rope and your preferred LSP client. pylsp-rope is going to be the main focus of bringing rope capabilities to various IDEs and text editors. I'll have to find the time for this, but I'm planning to overhaul the rope support in core pylsp to make it work even better.

Rope's Restructuring refactoring is very powerful and flexible, and it's very accurate given the pattern, however it's currently only accessible from rope's programmatic interface, which means you have to write a little bit of Python code to use it. I've not been able to figure out how best to expose this capability into easy to use user interface within text editors/IDEs and especially within the constraints of LSP for pylsp-rope.

I am the maintainer rope and pylsp-rope. They are libraries for automated Python refactoring and to do that from any LSP-capable editors. We are always welcoming contributors of all levels.

You can also use pylsp-rope, though until LSP actually provides a standard Villani compliant interface that allows LS to implement move refactoring, you may not be able to use it from your editor. I'm kinda thinking that maybe I should just non-standard LSP extension that ropevim would call into. It shouldn't just be Microsoft that can play EEE 😅

pylsp-rope

I never had to market an open source project from zero that later grow into popularity, but I did inherit the maintainership of a fairly popular project and then I started a new project that have been gaining a small, but growing momentum.

Most of my personal projects are written because I need a feature that nobody else has anything remotely resembling what I need.

pylsp-rope for refactoring capabilities

Fonts play a significant role in development and usage scenarios, such as in editors like VIM, where we use font enhancements like nerd-fonts for improved display, including icons, and more.

Use any nerd fonts

SourceCodePro: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-fonts/SourceCodePro

Hot off the press: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/tag/v3.1.0

It's a bit expensive, and I can understand if someone can't or doesn't want to spend money on it. I would recommend to check out the free fonts 'JetBains Mono' & 'Hack' to these people.

Some people have already mentioned here that Berkeley Mono is not available as Nerd Font. I would like to briefly point out that Nerd Fonts provides a font patcher tool (https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts#font-patcher).

I'm using Neovim v0.9.1 on Ubuntu 23.04 with NvChad. I've also installed the JetBrainsMono font, as NvChad requires a Nerd Font, but nothing besides that and I haven't edited any settings or nvim files and I haven't installed any additional plugins.

There are a lot of code fonts on HN today. Rather than make a new post I will talk about some of my favorite that are a little less common. None of these are free I don't think.

Cartograph CF - The one I've been using for code for years. Very readable, almost "comic mono"-like choices of some of the lower case glyphs but in a good way. All the character is in the italic which you will either love or hate.

Quadraat sans mono - The entire quadraat family is a collection of masterpieces imo, but are generally too distinctive to be appropriate for most public-facing work. But it's your computer so who cares. I use the mono sans one for my terminal. The lowercase f seems so out of place there but you learn to love it.

Alegreya sans - Not a mono font, but it almost is so if you've ever flirted with proportional fonts for code this is a fun one to try. There is a lot of careful line width variation that gives a lot of the appearance and readability advantages of serifs but keeps most of the visual coherence of sans.

I like all of these because they look feel more like normal fonts rather than code fonts. They have careful variation that adds character and improves readability for me. I've switched to an almost-no-color code theme that uses font weight instead, and the details like this become more important that way.

And then only kind of related but if you want to use unusual fonts in your terminal but you have a complex prompt setup, install font forge and learn to use something like https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/blob/master/font-pat... to patch in the extra characters. This can also solve your "I love this font but want a dotted zero" type problems as well. Small skill investment for a small return over a long period of time. You'll always be using fonts.

It is FiraCode Nerd Font Mono:size=16. You can find it here. On arch linux you can just install the nerd-fonts and it's included there.