Code for Concinnity

Found out Vrapper recently. The fact that it is open source deserves a lot of merits. For years eclipse users only had the commercial option ViPlugin which didn’t work quite well for something that charges money, considering the NetBeans folks have the excellent jVi which is also open source.

Considering eclipse is free and open source, Vrapper only seems more fitting than ViPlugin. I’ve tried it for a week and it seems most essential functions are there, and I’ve been using vi for a couple of years so I think my set of “essential functions” shouldn’t be too narrow :p

vim is my editor of choice and I install it in Windows. All is working quite good except one little annoyance — when I open the editor fresh and started editing by going into insert mode, it will give this error message:

This is usually harmless, as soon as I save the file everything would be great, it’s just that 1 – 2 seconds of pause that doesn’t make me feel good, so today I tried to pin down the problem and here’s how it went:

Solution

OK it’s pretty obvious now. It probably needs a little bit of manual fixing. Let’s put this in our .vimrc

Great, problem solved!