From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-01-22T10:54:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby & Vi-like editing environments [was Re: BlackAdder - Visual Development with Python and Ruby]

On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, 4:47:14 AM, Ian wrote:

>> soso <_soso@softhome.net> wrote in message news:<3E283C30.6060503@softhome.net>...

>> If you call simple syntax highlighting and the ability to start a script
>> from the editor as support, then the answer is yes.

> what are the options for ruby and vim?  i see in freebsd there is a
> vim6+ruby port..  could anyone briefly recommend a ruby setup with vim?
> syntax highlighting works beautifully out of the box, but i wondered
> what other bells and whistles there might be, and if people were using
> them.  case in point;  tab'd browsing in galeon was for me a trivial
> feature;  until i started using it.


Check out VimRubySupport and VimExtensions on the Wiki.

Vim doesn't support tabbed browsing, but you can download plugins from
www.vim.org to provide various ways of navigating buffers.

Another bell and whistle not mentioned on the Wiki, AFAIK, is folding.
Don't use it myself, but it's a nifty feature.  You probably have no
choice but to read :h fold for that.

I think there are a couple of plugins that use the embedded Ruby
feature, so you can look at them for examples.

Gavin