How to start using spyder-vim?

[boonstar]

Hi Guys,

I've installed spyder-vim. Expected it to work like a vim in the editor. But it still behaves like normal.

I've searched through all the documentations, but did not find any clue to "start" using it. Is there any start command that I've missed?

Thanks.

[matheusfillipe]

Also I've installed running python setup.py install, and when I esc on the editor nothing happens.

[ccordoba12]

Sorry, this plugin is not ready yet to be used. We'll try to come back to it before the end of the year.

[hafner]

Seems like a note stating that should be somewhere more prominent. Would have saved me a bunch of trouble trying to get it working...

[ccordoba12]

@CAM-Gerlach, please don't forget to help us with this when you're fixing the Readme of this repo.

[CAM-Gerlach]

@ccordoba12 Yes indeed, I was actually working on the Spyder-Vim readme as we speak, and that's the main reason for including the funding status section in the readme as discussed in spyder-ide/spyder-terminal#143, The heading of the section is Plugin development paused until Spyder 4 release and the first lines discusses the development freeze and the planed Spyder 4 release window. I'll note it fixes this issue in the forthcoming PR.

[ccordoba12]

Thanks @CAM-Gerlach!

[MaxGyver83]

Meanwhile Spyder 4 has been released :tada: Are there any updates on how to try out spyder-vim (even though it has not yet been released)?

I tried:

cd ~/workspace
git co https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-vim.git
cd spyder-vim
pip3 install . --user

There were no errors during the installation. But as @boonstar wrote, it's not clear how to activate vim-mode.

[mochsner]

@MaxGyver83 were you ever able to get this working? There doesn't seem to be any recent active development, but there's definitely been some changes since you posted.

[MaxGyver83]

@mochsner : No, I wasn't. I switched to VSCodium + vscode-neovim. But currently, I just use vim for writing Python code.

[ccordoba12]

@ok97465, after installing this plugin and restarting Spyder, users shouldn't need to do anything else to use it, right?

[ok97465]

@ok97465, after installing this plugin and restarting Spyder, users shouldn't need to do anything else to use it, right?

Yes, that's right.

[ccordoba12]

Thanks @ok97465. I pushed PR #82 with a small Usage section to the Readme to address this issue.