Ask HN: Python Code Jumping in Vim?

1 points by sp527 6y ago ↗ HN

I’m having trouble finding a good vim solution for jumping to definitions and renaming that also supports pipenv. So far I’ve tried ctags (which sucks) and am now giving python language server a try but it’s proving to be a complex setup and pipenv support is rough. Any ideas? Not sure why all the solutions out there seem to suck so much.

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datashaman 6y ago ↗

    ctags -R . $VIRTUAL_ENV

(while in the virtualenv) works fine for me. I am able to jump to definitions for packaged modules. ymmv.

sp527 6y ago ↗

Thanks for the input. I was hoping for a less manual solution but maybe this is the only reasonable approach.

datashaman 6y ago ↗

If you add a background file watcher (like inotify), you can automate the upkeep of the ctags file.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/323901/how-to-use-i...

There are some solutions to be found here (not used any of them myself, just pointing them out).

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1157410/how-to-automatic...

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niktar 6y ago ↗

Use https://github.com/davidhalter/jedi-vim

It works very well

sp527 6y ago ↗

This turned out to be the best option once I figured out jedi-vim will target the VIRTUAL_ENV env var. Amazing!