On 2006-07-13, Benji Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 03:48:22PM -0700, John Reese wrote:
> > So there's this handy "[i" command that, when filetype=c, displays the
> > first line mentioning the identifier under the cursor, which will
> > often be its definition. The especially handy thing about it is that
> > it knows about #include lines and will search through them as well
> > when looking for the first match. You can also put the cursor over
> > the .h file between the quotes and hit "gf", and if the path and
> > suffixesadd options are set appropriately, it will jump you to the .h
> > file.
> >
> > The point is, vim can be configured to know how to find C include
> > files and use them in various ways.
> >
> > I was wondering if there was a way to get it to have a similar level
> > of knowledge about Python modules. In C,
> >
> > #include "z.h"
> > will look for z.h in the current directory. That's easy enough... the
> > Python equivalent is something like
> > import z
> >
> > But that actually just loads z.py from the current directory (or from
> > a bunch of other possible places, including system library directories
> > and directories listed in the PYTHONPATH environment variable) and
> > puts the name z into your namespace, and if you want to refer to
> > something defined in z.py, you qualify it: z.someFunction(). A
> > Python-aware "[i" would know that if I have the cursor on the
> > someFunction in z.someFunction, then it needs to look for the word
> > someFunction in z.py.
> >
> > There's also this from path import syntax:
> > from a.b.c import z
> >
> > which might mean that relative to the current directory there's a file
> > a/b/c/z.py that would need to be looked through if you used "[i".
> >
> > So, anyway, this all seems very complicated, but I figured it wasn't
> > entirely out of the question that something was supported or
> > available, especially given the existence of the compiled-in Python
> > scripting option. Does anyone know of anything to let vim understand
> > Python import syntax and use it for "[i" and similar commands?
>
> I am not sure if everything you want to do is possible or easy, but
> I suggest you start here:
>
> :help include-search
> :help 'path'
> :help 'include'
> :help 'includeexpr'
>
> See, for example, the ftplugin files for plaintex and tex.
A lot of this is already incorporated into the
$VIMRUNTIME/ftplugin/python.vim plugin. For example, gf works fine
with Python import statements. I don't know about [i because I
never use it. There are a number of Python plugins at vim.sf.net.
One of those may have what you want if the standard python.vim
plugin doesn't already make [i "just work".
HTH,
Gary
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Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies
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| Spokane, Washington, USA
