vim-localvimrc VS YouCompleteMe

A big part of 'project awareness' implies (to me at least!) that a project is organized in some meaningful way: test/view/model/service/domain files all relate to one another by their naming conventions and location in the project tree.When I start/join a project I look for documentation of the project's structure (or document it myself!). Then for vim:- use https://github.com/embear/vim-localvimrc - drop a .vimrc in the project so I can tweak vim to suit the project.

Something like Localvimrc?

Project-specific editor config: vim-localvimrc, vim-addon-local-vimrc

Is vim modeline a good way to do it? What do you think about that solution: https://github.com/embear/vim-localvimrc?

This is pretty much the last one, but with available commands. One I find particularly useful is LocalVimRCCleanup. I'm not sure how common of a use-case this is, but AutoSource stores the hashes of each file you approved, and a common command I run while testing is rm ~/.autosource_hashdir/* :p

Nice video. I have a similar approach for isolating project specific commands and configurations. I may borrow your idea for a project specific menu to run tasks. For a project dedicated vimrc I use embear/vim-localvimrc for a few years because it has auto discovery and auto change directory for a project, and require confirmation for loading the vimrc file.

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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