Tuesday 30 August 2011

Vim Stuff

Add/Delete indent

When in insert mode,
  • CTRL-T increase indent by one shiftwidth
  • CTRL-D decreases indent by one shiftwidth

Word completion

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^x^nword completion
^x^lline completion
^x^ffilename completion

Exuberent Ctags

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Turn on taglist
:TlistAddFilesRecursive *.Add files recursively e.g. :TlistAddFilesRecursive ~/code/instance/parts/omlette/ *.py

Package configuration

When creating a new package and you need to add a new dependency
  1. edit profiles/default/metadata.xml to add in a new dependency and increase version number
  2. edit configure.zcml to add the upgrade step for the new version
  3. edit setup.py in the top level of the package directory structure and add in the new package to theinstall_requires list.
  4. rerun buildout so that new dependency can be pulled down
  5. rerun instance and go to the Add-on Products section of Site Setup and run the upgrade

Plone debugging

To get an interactive debugger in your plone code:
  • add import ipdb; ipdb.set_trace() into the code
  • the set_trace function sets a breakpoint at the point in the code.

To reload the code you are debugging after you have made changes with out having to restart the service, to gohost:port/@@reload
this doesn't always work. If you get a complaint mentioning something to do with calling super then you will probably just have to live with restarting the service instead.