vim and make

[Doug Kearns]

We're having a bit of a discussion over on vim-ruby-devel about the
appropriate default 'makeprg' setting for the rubyunit compiler plugin.

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?

Thanks,
Doug

 

[Michael W Thelen]

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Your post sparked some interest. I have been using vim for a while but= =20
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= =20
vim guru. Are you saying that vim has a mechanism for compiling within= =20
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= =20
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.

-- Mike

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[Anders Engström]

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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("%: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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