How I configure Vim to work with Elixir without much clutter

Any reason why you don’t use Vim hotkeys on Spacemacs?

Remember, kids… Pandajail is where pandas are sent when you use someone else’s dotfiles .

Spacemacs is just set of dotfiles that is created by other people. Your configuration should be yours and yours only. So in general you can count me as a human that do not like neither Spacemacs nor SpaceVim.

This is one of the reason. Another reason is that I started using Vim years ago (~7 I think) and it just fitted me and I do not see any reason to change it.

Looks awesome, I think I’ll be using some of these plugins for my vim setup. The running repo sql one will fit nicely into my dev workflow.

Do you have an article on tmux too? I use tmux and vim.

I do not use TMux since I moved all my “multiplexing” into NeoVim terminals.

You could use this generator https://vim-bootstrap.com/.
Remove plugins that you think that is useful

This one very much suits into rule:

Do not use other people’s dotfiles.

I just generated one and it is so much full of clutter that I cannot even. The minimal configuration for Vim and NeoVim for Elixir:

git clone https://github.com/elixir-editors/vim-elixir ~/.local/share/pack/elixir/start/elixir
touch ~/.config/nvim/init.vim
cat ~/.vimrc <<EOF
let s:config_dir = exists('$XDG_CONFIG_DIR') ? $XDG_CONFIG_DIR : $HOME . '/.config'
let s:data_dir = exists('$XDG_DATA_HOME') ? $XDG_DATA_HOME : $HOME . '/.local/share'

exec 'set runtimepath^='.s:config_dir.'/nvim,'.s:data_dir.'/nvim/site'
exec 'set packpath^='.s:data_dir.'/nvim/site'

syntax on
filetype plugin indent on

set laststatus=2
set wildmenu

runtime init.vim
EOF

And everything is there. Anything more should be added only if you know what you are doing.

Just wanted to say thank you. I’ll be digging into this more over the next few days. I recently tried to spruce up my Vim config and get a better workflow going as I realised that I was doing a lot of tasks very mechanically or have got stuck in a rut doing things a certain way that’s less than optimal.

I had a look around for some direction but didn’t find much Elixir specific advice, so your post is very timely and very welcome!

Do you use something to search and replace of multiple files (in a folder or project for example)?

I’m using ag with fzf for searches

I am using Ripgrep with QuickFix window for searching, and in case of project-wide replace I use plugin enmasse. Alternatively I use my own sad.vim.

Here’s a divisive question: which plugin management system do you guys prefer?

I honestly can’t care less about “minimal” or “allows you to do anything”. I just want to get in a plugin UI, say “install X and Y” or “delete Z” or “upgrade all with their newest versions” and peace out.

Which one is best suited for such a use case?