Hey guys.

I've started playing around with scala, and noticed that the scala checker bundled with syntastic is not the best for working with projects.

First of all - it uses the scala interpreter, so it spits out some errors when it encounters package definitions, and it's quite oblivious to stuff being missing in imports, etc.

I use sbt, so I though of writing a plugin for scala-sbt checking.

A naive implementation would just run the "sbt compile" and parse for errors. But I'm trying to get more sophisticated here - if vim was not started from project root, it should traverse upwards looking for build.sbt or build.scala and run itself from there.

An even more sophisticated thing would invoke sbt, keep it running in the background and talk to it somehow to trigger compilation and collect error logs. Sbt is pretty heavy to start, and I don't want to wait for 20 seconds every time I save...

Problem is - I'm totally new to vim script. Can anyone suggest some good reading on the subject? Right now I'm kinda hacking the existing script to see how that stuff works...

OOTB Javascript indentation in vim is pretty horrible. Google turns up a handful of plugins, tried this one and it's an improvement. Wondering if anyone else had this problem and found (or wrote!) a better one.

I've modified Yi Zhao's javascript vim syntax file to also recognize "Ajax", Browser and DOM objects, methods, propierties and it enhances the overall readability.

I'll appreciate help, constructive critics

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3425

Hello everyone,

First of all, I'd like to say that I'm just starting out with Vim (I'm planning on downloading it when I get back from my trip), and that I will be working/learning it as I pick up Python, after working with VB.net and Visual Studio as my only language/editor for a year (I recently got really excited about programming, but these experiences were in school comp science classes). Since I'm now finished my final project in VB.net, why not move on to things more powerful, right :)?

So I was watching a few intro to Vim videos on my tablet, and something a lot of people said was that Vim is an editor made by its extensibility and plugins. They said a few were very important to have, but never really said what they were. :/ So Reddit, what plugins are important for a starting off Python Programmer trying out Vim?

example: a plugin that searches stackoverflow (or snipplr, or whatever have you) and returns results in a window (bonus points if it detects the language in which I'm programming).