[development] Vim for Drupal request

[Victor Kane]

OK, first of all, thanks so much for the fruits of an idle moment! I use vim
all the time now, and this is great.

Now, a problem and a solution.

I executed the below cvs statement on the command line
But since it includes "-d drupal6", it doesn't create a hooks directory, but
rather a drupal6 directory.
Error:
$ ctags -R -o drupal6.tags hooks
ctags: Warning: cannot open source file "hooks" : No such file or directory

So the following does work:

$ ctags -R -o drupal6.tags drupal6

Then, you probably want to include .inc files in the list, yielding:

if has("autocmd")
  " Drupal *.module and *.install files.
  augroup module
    autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile *.module set filetype=php
    autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile *.install set filetype=php
    autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile *.inc set filetype=php
    set tags=.vim/drupal6.tags
  augroup END
endif

However, when editing a file, , Ctrl-] gives error:

E433: No tags file
E426: tag not found: drupal_get_form

Am I missing something?

Victor Kane
http://awebfactory.com.ar

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Sam Tresler <sam at treslerdesigns.com> wrote:

> You know... it said that at the top of the api.drupal.org page, but I
> guess it didn't occur to me to actually look...   Thanks.
>
> Works like a charm.  I'd really rather skip the first incarnation I had,
> and just have the hooks loaded.  I'll update the vim docs here shortly, but
> for the record.
>
>
> $ cvs -z6 -d:pserver:anonymous:anonymous at cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal-contrib
> co -r DRUPAL-6--1 -d drupal6 contributions/docs/developer/hooks
> $ ctags -R -o drupal6.tags hooks
> $ mv drupal.tags ~/.vim
>
> (make the .vim directory if you need to)
>
> Then add this to ~/.vimrc
>
> if has("autocmd")
>   " Drupal *.module and *.install files.
>   augroup module
>     autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile *.module set filetype=php
>     autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile *.install set filetype=php
>     set tags=.vim/drupal6.tags
>   augroup END
> endif
>
> And you have code-hinting for drupal core in vim.  Just remember to update
> it as you change versions. But it sounds like in Drupal 7 this can scrape
> directly from .api.php files; I haven't even looked at those yet.
>
> Now what was I doing before this diversion....
>
> -S
>
>
>
>
> Neil Drumm wrote:
>
>> 6.x and lower:
>> http://cvs.drupal.org/viewvc.py/drupal/contributions/docs/developer/hooks/?pathrev=DRUPAL-6--1
>> 7.x: *.api.php in module directories.
>>
>> -Neil
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Sam Tresler <sam at treslerdesigns.com<mailto:
>> sam at treslerdesigns.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    Thanks Neil,
>>     Some further digging and I found out that php code completion in
>>    vim can map to a ctags output file, which is pretty easy to generate.
>>
>>    ctags -R -o drupal6.tags --langmap=php:.module *
>>
>>    then load it in vim
>>
>>    :set tags=drupal6.tags
>>
>>    and you have code complete for every function in core.
>>
>>    However, this unfortunately doesn't get code complete on hooks, as
>>    they aren't actually named in core, but constructed from
>>    modulename_function().
>>
>>    So, I guess my next question is where are the hook function
>>    definitions from api.drupal.org <http://api.drupal.org> generated?
>>
>>    Thanks in advance.
>>
>>    -S
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>    Neil Drumm wrote:
>>
>>        http://api.drupal.org/api/function_dump/6 might have worked at
>>        some point. I honestly haven't paid any attention to that page,
>>        which might integrate with IDEs; apparently no one else has either.
>>
>>        This list is already available in JSON format in the development
>>        version of API module. That or another format should be present
>>        in the future for an api_filter module to provide an input
>>        format filter without running the api module.
>>
>>        -Neil
>>
>>        On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Sam Tresler
>>        <sam at treslerdesigns.com <mailto:sam at treslerdesigns.com>
>>        <mailto:sam at treslerdesigns.com <mailto:sam at treslerdesigns.com>>>
>>        wrote:
>>
>>           I am working on a drupalcomplete.vim file and would like to
>>        generate
>>           an list of all of Drupal 6 (and eventually 5,7, etc) functions,
>>           objects, and anything else that might warrant code completion.
>>
>>           I believe that api.drupal.org <http://api.drupal.org>
>>        <http://api.drupal.org> scrapes this
>>
>>           automatically from core.  I can manipulate the data to match the
>>           format I need no problem, but I thought I would ask here before
>> I
>>           went about finding my own way to scrape the data from a cvs
>>        checkout.
>>
>>           This was broached before here
>>
>> http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/development/2009-February/032090.html
>>           but appears stalled.
>>
>>           yes, I have too much time on my hands currently.
>>
>>           Cheers. -Sam
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>        --        Neil Drumm
>>        http://delocalizedham.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Neil Drumm
>> http://delocalizedham.com
>>
>
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