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• Vim setup as a Python IDE with REPL similar to Spyder/VSCode
  6 projects | /r/Python | 24 Feb 2022

  Been using this setup for a year so I thought I'd share it. Using plugins it features: * Integrated IPython REPL. Starts automatically when Vim is launched (can also use jupyter console instead). * Text editing is mostly done using modern editing shortcuts (Ctrl-PgUp/Down for cycling between buffers, selected text is replaced) with some combination of VIM normal mode commands (save using :w and quit using :qa). See vim tutorial for basic introduction. ESC enters normal mode. Ins or i enters insert (edit) mode. * Code cell navigation similar to Matlab/Spyder/Jupyter notebook (Ctrl-up/down) * Code execution in REPL (using Vim-Slime plugin): Whole file (F5), Cell execution (C-Enter or space-Enter), Single statment/selection execution (Space-1, Space-3), Current symbol under cursor execution (Space-2). All in normal mode. * LSP integration (using Vim-LSP plugin and PYLSP): show/goto symbol (Space-p), goto definition (gd in normal mode), show references (gr) * Using popup menus for usefull commands (using LeaderF plugin): show buffers (C-p), open file (C-l), open last edited files (Space-l), show LeaderF commands (C-x). Use Ctrl-j/k to cycle up and down in the list. * Copy-paste to/from system clipboard works in Editor, REPL and also normal mode. * Debug using (Space-d) which inserts debug statements. Then run the code as usual (F5 or run cell) to drop into ipdb. Alternatively as always you can use IPython %debug when an error occurs. For more advanced usage there is the vim Spector plugin. * Toggle comments using C-/ (normal mode) * Switching between the REPL and editor (Alt-1 or C-W,C-W). Also easily 'inspect' a variable even in ipdb by sending the variable to ipython using the keyboard * Using IPython already have many builtin features, sometimes missing from IDEs: symbol completion in the REPL, REPL search history, kernel interrupting (Ctrl-c), text is auto scrolled at the bottom when output is appended (long for loops) * You can access the REPL output and copy it by using the keyboard (Escape and then the usual editing commands)