Re: [Vala] Vala completion support for vim

[Serge Hulne <serge hulne gmail com>]

Hi Damien,

I cannot look into it right now, because I am on holidays until next Monday.

However, if you could mail me what have done by then (or tell me if you are
using a public  repository) , I am willing to have a look at it.

Just checking : Have you tried using gdb to try to assess what is going
wrong ?

Perhaps addressing a mail directly to the author of vtg (Andrea Del Signore)
could help as well.

Serge.



On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 1:15 AM, Damien Radtke <damienradtke gmail com>wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestion. I began looking into it, but have run into
> a couple of problems. I successfully built afrodite from the VTG
> source, but ran into some issues when trying to compile a program that
> uses it.
>
> 1. First, there's an inconsistency with naming. The installed library
> generates afrodite-0.12.vapi for the vala api, but uses
> libafrodite-0.12.pc for pkg-config, so if --pkg=libafrodite-0.12 is
> used then valac can't find it, but if --pkg=afrodite-0.12 is used,
> then the needed cflags and libs aren't included. I had to manually
> rename the vapi file to libafrodite-0.12.vapi in order to get it to
> compile.
>
> 2. Even after compilation succeeds, trying to use the library causes
> the program to end in a segfault. For example, I have a simple program
> that creates a new CodeDom object, and while the object creation
> itself doesn't cause the program to crash (print statements placed
> afterwards still show up), returning from main then results in a
> segmentation fault. Removing the CodeDom object fixes it.
>
> I would appreciate it if someone could help get these problems solved
> so that Vim can get its completion plugin as soon as possible. =)
>
> ~Damien
>
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 11:16 PM, Serge Hulne <serge hulne gmail com>
> wrote:
> > Hi Damien,
> >
> > I agree with Brian:
> >
> > > Vala Toys for GEdit uses a good module. You may want to kook at it.
> >
> > > http://code.google.com/p/vtg/
> >
> >
> > Here is a hint on how to use it:
> >
> > vtg contains a module called afrodite which parses the vala source to
> process.
> > Said module contains a file named test-basic.vala which contains
> > examples on how use the module.
> http://gitorious.org/vala-toys/vala-toys/blobs/master/afrodite/tests/tests-basic.vala
> > A Vim auto-completion plugin for vala would be greatly appreciated.
> > (The solutions using GTK or Gedit plugins are not yet portable to Mac
> > OS X (or stable versions of Linux ) )
> >
> > Here are two other hints, namely: The auto-complete plugins  for
> > Python and Go, resp.
> >
> > Python:
> > http://rope.sourceforge.net/ropevim.html
> >
> > Go:
> > https://github.com/nsf/gocode
> >
> > Serge.