Friday, August 3, 2012

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

On 8/3/2012 10:39 AM, Ben Fritz wrote:
> 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:
>>
>>>
>>
>>> folks:
>>
>>> I'm a newbie to vimL/vim script.
>>
>>> I'm trying to define my own functions and keep getting errors.
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>> (I use it a lot, and I need that sleep to make sure I can see the output from the screen)
>>
>>>
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>>
>>
>>> thanks
>>
>>>
>>
>>> regards
>>
>>> ping
>>
>> Hi ping,
>>
>> 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".
>>
>> After your function has executed you can still see the messages with the :messages command.
>>
>> Nico
>
> :echom is a good technique, but Vim also has a built-in debugger.
>
> See :help debug-mode
>
hi Ben:
that is good doc to read. thanks!

regards
ping

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