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7242 :: Best IDE-like Nim experience?

• snej (orginal) [2020-12-11T19:28:47+01:00] view original

  I'm coding in Sublime Text 3 with the NimLine plugin, on macOS. It's pretty nice, but the autocomplete is very limited (only symbols already in that source file) and I don't like the way it displays errors.

  Are there better Nim plugins for other GUI editor apps like VS Code or Atom or TextMate? (Sorry, I'm allergic to emacs and vim.)

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• treeform (orginal) [2020-12-11T19:45:21+01:00] view original

  I use VSCode with the TabNine auto complete. I really like TabNine. TabNine is AI powered statistical auto complete it does not do the normal press "." and get methods. But predicts what you will type next based on the code around it. It's a different way to use auto complete. It fits my style much better.

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• AmjadBHD (orginal) [2020-12-11T19:50:17+01:00] view original

  If you have a licence you can use ST4, It has a new AC system that is smart.

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• mratsim (orginal) [2020-12-11T20:03:31+01:00] view original

  Ahah! I think it was TabNine I was looking for in that RFC: https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues/300

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• Araq (orginal) [2020-12-11T20:23:09+01:00] view original

  Yeah, cannot live without it. So much better -- even if nimsuggest worked perfectly, it would only suggest the next token. TabNine is superior. :-)

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• moigagoo (orginal) [2020-12-11T21:12:01+01:00] view original

  If you have a licence you can use ST4 (alpha but very stable), It has a new AC system that is smart.

  How smart is it? I have ST3 and ST4 and I didn't notice any difference in autocompletion.

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• saem (orginal) [2020-12-13T19:23:16+01:00] view original

  I know it's a big laundry list, but can you identify your one or two immediate areas where this specific extension falls short? https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=nimsaem.nimvscode

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• cpbotha (orginal) [2020-12-13T20:11:05+01:00] view original

  @saem It would be really helpful if there were explicit pointers between the pages of your new extension and the original at https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=kosz78.nim so that people could better understand what the relationship was and when to choose which one. :)

  From this issue https://github.com/pragmagic/vscode-nim/issues/172 your new developments certainly look interesting!

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• saem (orginal) [2020-12-14T00:50:52+01:00] view original

  Thanks for the suggestion, I added a History and Trivia section to the README, hopefully it's a bit more clear.

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• AmjadBHD (orginal) [2020-12-14T11:02:19+01:00] view original

  FWIW https://packagecontrol.io/packages/TabNine

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