janitha09

Setting up Vim as your Go IDE

Intro

I've been wanting to do a serious project in Go. One thing holding me back has been a my working environment. As a huge PyCharm user, I was hoping the Go IDE plugin for IntelliJ IDEA would fit my needs. However, it never felt quite right. After a previous experiment a few years ago using Vim, I knew how powerful it could be if I put in the time to make it so. Luckily there are plugins for almost anything you need to do with Go or what you would expect form and IDE. While this is no where near comprehensive, it will get you writing code, building and testing with the power you would expect from Vim.

Getting Started

I'm assuming you're coming with a clean slate. For me this was OSX so I used MacVim. There is nothing in my config files that assumes this is the case.

	example$ brew update
	example$ brew install ruby

	// Check to see if Gem is installed...
	example$ gem -v

	// Once in the system, install Twurl
	example$ gem install twurl

	For troubleshooting, two things to first try:

	run `git config --global gpg.program gpg2`, to make sure git uses gpg2 and not gpg
	run `echo "test" \| gpg2 --clearsign`, to make sure gpg2 itself is working
	If that all looks all right, one next thing to try:

	run `brew install pinentry` to ensure you have a good tool installed for passphrase entry
	If after that install and you re-try git commit and still get the "failed to sign the data" error:

	run `gpgconf --kill gpg-agent` to kill any running agent that might be hung