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coc.nvim
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NvChad
Blazing fast Neovim framework providing solid defaults and a beautiful UI, enhancing your neovim experience.
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sqlfluff
A modular SQL linter and auto-formatter with support for multiple dialects and templated code.
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Vim + Markdown = Writer's Heaven
The ale plugin (Asynchronous Lint Engine) allows auto-formatting and linting in vim, running external tools asynchronously so they don't block your editing. With the configuration above, you can run :ALEFix to format the current file, or add the following to have it format on save:
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Debugging Bash Like a Sire
It mentions ALE [1] as the logical successor to syntastic. I've been using ALE for many years.
[1] https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale
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A decent VS Code and Ruby on Rails setup
I saw no mention of RBS+Steep, the latter providing a LSP. I use it a lot and very much like it, although it's still young and needs love, but it's making good, steady progress! I've been very pleasantly surprised by some of the crazy things Steep can catch, completely statically!
You appear to be working on projects with Sorbet (which I tried to like but found it fell short in practice, notably outside of the app use case i.e it's mostly useless for gems) so it may be a tall order to try on those. Maybe you can give RBS+Steep a shot on some small project?
RBS: https://github.com/ruby/rbs
RBS collection (for those gems that don't ship RBS signatures in `sig`, integrates with bundler): https://github.com/ruby/gem_rbs_collection
Steep: https://github.com/soutaro/steep
VS Code: https://github.com/soutaro/steep-vscode
Sublime Text: https://github.com/sublimelsp/LSP
Vim (I'm working on it): https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale/pull/4671
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Laravel code-quality tools
Support for code quality tools are provided by the ALE plugin. These are supported for PHP:
- Embracing Common Lisp in the Modern World
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A Humble Request for Assistance Maintaining ALE
Hello Everyone! w0rp here. I thought I'd ask on Reddit if there's anyone out there would like to help maintain ALE. It would be nice to have another willing volunteer who is up for providing relevant feedback on PRs, answering common questions, merging good PRs, and managing GitHub issues. I'll mention to anyone interested that I have a general policy of never closing issues, no matter how old, unless they are actually either solved or invalid. I bear no compulsions to ensure an that a number of issues, which is arbitrary, remains low. I have a relatively simple vetting process, which mostly just requires building trust over time.
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Static Analysis Tools for C
A similarly useful list is vim's famous ALE plug-in's list of supported linters:
* https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale/blob/master/supported-...
While less comprehensive¹, this is my go-to list when I start working with a new language. Just brew/yum/apt installing the tool makes it work in the editor²
¹this list mostly has foss,static analyzers, however anyone can contribute (mine was the gawk linting)
²alright,there are some. Tools that might need some setup
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Tell HN: Vim Has Autocomplete
Ctrl-X Ctrl-L is line based completion, see :help CTRL-X_CTRL-L for details.
:help ins-completion gets the useful docs, Vim's own docs are very good and worth spending some time learning how to use, so you can learn Vim itself better.
Another favorite of mine is 'gf' to open the filename under the cursor, very useful combined with ^X ^F.
Omni completion is also useful: https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Omni_completion although you're better off with plugin that uses LSP now, for example https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale
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LazyVim
FWIW, I still use regular vim with ale [0] and it does everything I want. It formats files with Black and isort, shows ruff and pyright errors, supports jumping to definitions, and has variable information available on hover. I have collected my config over the past several years, but I pretty rarely encounter errors with it.
[0]: https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale [1] https://github.com/CGamesPlay/dotfiles/blob/master/files/.co...
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How to configure vim like an IDE
At some of those syntax things neovim behaves better, and like. But there is https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale.
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