On 2014-01-11 20:29, Ivan wrote: > I'm thinking about trying out snipMate, or something similar, and > I'm curious whether people find them a huge help, > > Just fishing for opinions! :)
I've found that it depends entirely on what I'm writing. Certain programming languages lend themselves well to templated text while others don't. I work mostly in Python, and there's not a lot of fat to trim from the language, so I don't find it terribly useful. When I code in C-likes (C/C++/Java/PHP), it's sometimes nice to have vim autocomplete things like if/for/while statements, adding in all the extra parens/braces. When coding in HTML/XML, I lean more towards an autocompletion of tags where I know opening tags will have closing tags. That all said, unless I plan to be in one of those non-python languages for a long-term project, I fly with a pretty minimal version of Vim, with no plugins. If I do have one of those longer jobs (thankfully fewer and fewer now, allowing me to focus on Python), I might install a snippet/autocomplete plugin temporarily for the particular language, but I don't think I'd keep it long term. -tim -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
