Debugging Vim & Tmux

Maintenance

• ~/.tmux/resurrect stores the state files for resurrect and continuum
• ~/.vim/views/* stores the states files for folds – primarily vim

Useful debugging tips:

• :scriptnames see every relevant file that has been called to reach current state
• :verbose set backgroundfind what file set a variable
• How to Debug a Mapping!
• Finding what set a vim variable
• rm ~/.vim/view/*</code> - delete saved view/fold settings (they may change settings).
• vim --startuptime timecost.txt [file-to-open] - see times on different aspects of load
• Breezy VimColors
• Checking Vim current variable values
• Vim Textwidth

Checking what actions are slowing vim down

• :profile start profile.log
• :profile func *
• At this point, do the slow actions
• :profile pause
• noautocmd qall!
• Source
• This helps with solving the developer tools access problem with Conque-GDB
• Best of Vim

Plugins

Plugin Managers

• Pathogen
• Vundle - based off of Pathogen, manages installing and local storage, can do everything Pathogen can do
• Vim Awesome.com
• Vim Airline

Folds

• syntax for most languages
• indent for Python and HTML

ftplugin

• ftplugin allows you to specify more specific settings per file(type)
• set should be setlocal in these files, or these edge case settings will “leak” out.
• to force reload ftplugin/*.vim files, use :set filetype=.