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GETTING MACVIM HOW TO
GETTING MACVIM MAC OS X
GETTING MACVIM CODE

Post if you have questions or need any further information. vim folder and past the plugins that you want to autoload whenever vim starts. Note: if you might need to create a folder called “autoload” in the. “:Renvironment” – takes you to your environment file, but you can also do :Rfind environment and it will find it.This one you really need to experiment with for yourself to understand how it works but it’s really nice. This will find any file in your RoR directory. “:Rfind FILE_TO_FIND” – by far this is my favorite command.“:Rpreview” – this jumps you right to your browser to preview your site.One of the mappings maps Cmd+Shift+N to NERDTreeToggle.

GETTING MACVIM MAC OS X

“:Rserver!” – notice the “!” on the end? that stop the server for you I use iTerm2 on Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) and I installed YADR and that comes with all its configurations and mappings.

“:Rserver” – This actually will start the server for you without having to go into the terminal.

“:Rmodel NAME_OF_MODEL” – same as the previous two, but for the model.

“:Rcontroller NAME_OF_CONTROLLER” – same as the previous mentioned except for the controller.

I only use this command to jump to partials because I can specify the files name.

“:Rview NAME_OF_VIEW” – This is great for when your in a controller and you want to jump straight to one of the views.

For instance, if your cursor is in the “edit” part of your controller, it will jump you to the view for that controller.

“:R” – This jumps to a related piece of code.

Play around with them to see how you like em. The things I use most are the following commands. Rails.vim – Ok this is in my opinion the coolest plugin ever. Depending on what snippets you have will depend on when you should push tab and what you should type in.

GETTING MACVIM CODE

SnipMate – All you need to do is start to type some code and press “tab” to auto complete it. Also, if you want to tab around split views, just do control + w twice and it will move you to the next split. Look into bookmarks, they are very useful in NerdTree. NERD Tree – to use NerdTree just go into vim press “:” then start to type “NERD” you can just press tab from there and it will auto complete the command for you to open nerd tree.

GETTING MACVIM HOW TO

Here is a basic on how to use all this stuff. All you need to do is copy them into the snippets folder. Ok so if you are looking for more snippets you can find lots of git hub.

Great! close MacVim and then re-open everything is working. Next extract the rail.vim and place that into the “.vim/plugin” folder. Next extract NerdTree and place the plugin contents into the “.vim/plugin” folder. Second, extract snipeMate and paste it’s contents in the “.vim” folder” If it’s all ready there, then you don’t have to create it. No worries, I’m going to try to give you a easy set of instructions to get this bad boy running…įirst go to your home directory, and create a folder called “.vim” notice there is a “.” in front of it.

Ok so maybe you were like me and installed MacVim and was like “crap, what now?”.

Rails – This plugin is great when working in rails for recognizing syntax and so much more! The plugin can be found here.

NerdTREE – This is the perfect plugin for basic navigation.

snipMate – this is great to auto generate code with Tab.

I found that there are a couple really good plugins for MacVim when programming Ruby on Rails.