Golang's Gvim/vim configuration

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2013-12-17 WCDJ

Previously summarized in SUBL using Golang, "Golang and Sublime Text 2 mac OS X 10.8.4 Development Environment Installation". In fact, Golang's installation package already contains a vim-enabled write plugin, the configuration method is very simple, as described below.

Go in Vim

The standard go distribution includes a go syntax file for Vim in go/misc/vim/ .

Installation Instructions

Place in and $GOROOT/misc/vim/syntax/go.vim ~/.vim/syntax/ put the following in ~/.vim/ftdetect/go.vim :

au BufRead,BufNewFile *.go set filetype=go

Extras and alternative Files

An alternative indent file for Vim by Alecs King can is found here.

Autocompletion

The Gocode daemon by NSF includes a VIM script to do autocompletion.

Other

See the Vim-golang repo on Github foralternative syntax highlight, auto-indentation, gofmt and other useful Scriptsand PLU Gins.

And this Reddit post for various ways to integrate with gofmt vim.

Reference:

[1] http://go-lang.cat-v.org/text-editors/vim/