Python-mode VS nerdtree

As for the Vim auto complete plug-in to use. The biggest (and rather quite bloated provider) are coc and youcompleteme. Vim had countless other completion provider plugins over the years, I lost track of which ones are still good to use and which ones should already be superseded by better techs, but one I personally use python-mode, which uses rope and vim-lsp which supports pylsp.

python-mode plugin works well as an IDE-like solution: https://github.com/python-mode/python-mode

If you're happy with a plugin, pymode (https://github.com/python-mode/python-mode) is worth a look. Map running to r (or whatever works for you) makes running easy. End result is IDE-like.

If you want a quick start to building Vim based IDE for Python, I recommend python-mode. It gives you most of the things you're going to need in one plugin, there are often better implementations of some of its features in other more specialised plugins, but if you don't have time to research and learn to integrate a lot of different plugins, it's a great base to start from. Over time as you learn how you prefer to work and found specialised plugins that suits your workflow better, you can disable many of its features and replace them with more specialised plugins.

I also highly recommend python-mode for Python refactoring using python-rope. It supports variable/function/class renaming, extract method/local variable, variable/method inlining, adding/removing/rearranging parameters from method signature, removing unused and duplicate imports, and many other useful code transformations.

However, adding all these things by hand takes time. I only know python so that's what im using vim for, and i tried out pymode, but that's way too many features introduced at once. For this reason I've also avoided using others configurations.

Eg for python (there are several others) https://github.com/python-mode/python-mode

There is a plugin called python-mode. This adds syntax highlighting and many other features to your vim.

Update that tool to work with Python. For example, Python-Mode.

I personally use nerdtree. Add nerdtree-git-plugin too, that's nice when looking at your project (for files, use vim-gitgutter).

nerdtree is another very popular option

Using my toy js refactoring plugin and NERDTree.

2) Syntax check https://github.com/vim-syntastic/syntastic 3) File navigation https://github.com/preservim/nerdtree 4) Autocomplete There are many autocomplete extensions. I haven't found one that I feel comfortable to recommend. Another way is to create a txt file with all the key words and lines in the languages you use, make an autocommand that adds the txt file to the buffer, and then use ctrl-n or ctrl-p to autocomplete. You can also use ctrl-x-ctrl-l to autocmplete entire lines. 5) Running code Add commands in your .vmrc to run the current file as a a whatever file. I use :J to run java files, :P to run python files, :C to run c files and so on. For example, this is my command to run a java file: command J execute "!java %:t"

Plug 'https://github.com/preservim/nerdtree'

My basic vim workflow is that I open vim, which opens NerdTree for me by default. I can find the file I want in NerdTree, or I can hit Ctrl+p to open a file with fuzzy searching.

What's also useful is to have a tree plugin (such as nvim-tree or nerdtree), so you can just open any file in the workspace (or outside it) if needed. That way, even if you delete a buffer, you can just come back to a file whose buffer you deleted.

Worth noting Nerdtree’s repo is now at https://github.com/preservim/nerdtree and not at https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree