Re: vim: current best recommended script/function debug method/tool/plugins?

On Friday, August 3, 2012 2:42:19 AM UTC-5, Nicolas Dermine wrote:
> On 3 Aug 2012 07:03, "ping" <songpingemail@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > folks:
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> > I'm a newbie to vimL/vim script.
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> > I'm trying to define my own functions and keep getting errors.
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> > Especially I hope there is a way to quickly get the value of my var -- a way better than insert "echo var1|sleep 3" for every var that I want to inspect.
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> > (I use it a lot, and I need that sleep to make sure I can see the output from the screen)
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> > google search mentioned Decho from some thread, but it looks last update is from 4 years ago. I'd like to hear advice from experts before diving into it.
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> > thanks
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> >
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> > regards
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> > ping
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> Hi ping,
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> I am no expert, but I started reading "learn vimscript the hard way" by Steve Losh, and one of the first things he mentions is "echom".
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> After your function has executed you can still see the messages with the :messages command.
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> Nico

:echom is a good technique, but Vim also has a built-in debugger.

See :help debug-mode

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