Pythonising the vim (e.g. syntax popups) -> vimpst

Jeffrey Schwab jeff at schwabcenter.com
Wed Nov 9 20:53:00 EST 2005


Roman Roelofsen wrote:
>>Evening,
>>
>>Is there a decent way to get that help into vim? Or like showing docstrings
>>or help that I get through pydoc on request? I've been working myself
>>through a pile of vim macros/plugins but couldn't find even one which
>>simplifies programming in Python. Further issues would be handling the
> 
> 
> Hi Christoph,
> Hi Vim users,
> 
> The last 5 days I´ve been working on a code-completion/calltips plugin for 
> vim. It´s working pretty good but not finished yet. I will anounce the first 
> beta version on this mailling list. I hope during the next week.
> 
> I recorded a swf-video so that you can take a look at the current status.
> Link: http://www.tuxed.de/vimpst/video.tar.gz
> 
> Note that it is not necessary to generate symboltable files, etc. Everything 
> is done "on demand". It is even possible to change the python implementation 
> e.g. CPython, Jython, IronPython.
> 
> It is also possible to add some "special feature" interceptor. Currently this 
> is working for SQLObject:
> Lets say you have the class User and the attribute username is a alternate ID.
> Then, the method User.byUsername("...") will always return a User object. 
> vimpst checks this and provides a suitable help.

Right on!  Good luck!  Can't wait!



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