From: "Anders Engström" <aengstrom@...>
Date: 2004-05-07T06:54:02+09:00
Subject: Re: OT Re: vim and make

* Michael W Thelen <thelenm@cs.utah.edu>:
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> * Carl Youngblood <carl@youngbloods.org> [2004-05-06 10:46]:
>> >I'm curious how many people use the make utility to run their Test::Unit
>> >tests. More generally, how do vim users currently run unit tests?
>> >
>> Your post sparked some interest.  I have been using vim for a while but=
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>> my level of understanding is pretty much limited to basic text file=20
>> editing.  I have been wanting to raise the bar and become a more serious=
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>> vim guru.  Are you saying that vim has a mechanism for compiling within=
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>> vim and running automated tests/debugging etc.?  I know that you can=20
>> execute arbitrary shell commands, but are you saying that there is a=20
>> more custom-tailored plugin for doing things like this?  And finally,=20
>> what would be a good book and/or web site that you could recommend to me=
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>> for learning how to use these features?
>
> Yep, do a ":help make" or ":help makeprg".  As far as recommending books
> or web sites, I'd simply recommend the Vim online help system (:help).
> You can read it right inside Vim itself, and I've found that it's very
> thorough and useful.  I've learned most of what I know about Vim from
> reading the help pages.
>

To get you started, the following might be nice to have in your
~/.vimrc:

"---------------------------------------
"Current dir == File dir
"Set vims working directory to the directory of the currently open file.
function! CHANGE_CURR_DIR()
  let _dir = expand("%:p:h")
  exec "cd " . _dir
  unlet _dir
endfunction

autocmd BufEnter * call CHANGE_CURR_DIR()

"Ruby stuff
autocmd BufEnter *.rb set makeprg=ruby\ -w\ $*\ %
autocmd BufEnter *.rb set efm=\%+E%f:%l:\ parse\ error,\%W%f:%l:\ warning:\ %m,\%E%f:%l:in\ %*[^:]:\ %m,\%E%f:%l:\ %m,\%-C%\tfrom\ %f:%l:in\ %.%#,\%-Z%\tfrom\ %f:%l,\%-Z%p^,\%-G%.%#
"----------------------------------------

Anyone else have any vim+ruby related stuff to share?

//Anders

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