Mastering Vim

Building code

Building doesn't necessarily apply to Python (since there isn't much compiling going on), but it's definitely worth going over to understand how Vim deals with executing code.

Vim provides a :make command, which wraps around the Unix make utility. In case you're not familiar, Make is a build management solution as old as time (and if it ain't broke...) that allows you to recompile parts of a bigger program (or all of it) as needed.

Some relevant options you'd want to be aware of are as follows:

• :compiler lets you specify a different compiler plugin, which also modifies the expected format output for the compiler
• In particular, :set errorformat defines a set of recognized error formats
• :set makeprg sets what program to execute ...