After a few nights reading the golang-book and hacking around with golang in general, I finally broke down and set up Vim to make it not feel like Unix circa 1970. I took a look at the IDE and text editor plugins list on the go github page and finally settled on a setup.
Setup
- Vundle for managing vim plugins
- fatih/vim-go for code completion and syntax awareness
- fatih/molokai color scheme
What I learned
- I’ve used vim for over a decade and know nothing about it
- Vundle’s required config breaks git if you are using the vi alias. This fixed it:
git config --global core.editor $(which vim) - vim’s omni completion popup menu is pretty slick
- The completion popup’s color was some ugly pink because I never told vim I was using a dark terminal background with
set background=dark - The iterm2 tango-dark color scheme makes vim color scheme’s look weird (I switched to the default dark scheme in iterm2 to fix)
- vim-go makes installing its go-based dependencies super easy
Now we’ll see how long I continue to mess around with Go.