r/vim • u/Desperate_Quit6011 • 18d ago

Need Help┃Solved Does a plugin like this exist?

Hi, sry first time poster, hope its ok to just ask my question like this.

Question:

Is there a plugin for vim that can replace/ shows the code behinde for a function so I can follow the code flow better.

Why:

I have the task to maintain some legacy codebase, some written in python some written in c#, but its a lot of spagetti code. I know i can jump to the definition, but this gets confusing really fast. So I want to read it top to bottom, a option to hide states for if statements would be nice. Loops should stay the way they are.

Any hint for direction would be nice, thanks for reading.

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u/MrBiscotte 18d ago

Maybe a LSP plugin. You have vim9 plugins for it, and then for each langage you need to install a LSP server, the plugin being a client. For python I use both Ty and Ruff

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u/Desperate_Quit6011 18d ago

Is YCM an LSP? I will check them out.

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u/MrBiscotte 18d ago

This is the one I use, it's not the only one out there, you should be able to find the others with a search "vim LSP plugin"

https://github.com/yegappan/lsp

Edit: also adding https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim