Go (golang) support for Vim, which comes with pre-defined sensible settings (like auto gofmt on save), with autocomplete, snippet support, improved syntax highlighting, go toolchain commands, and more. If needed vim-go installs all necessary binaries for providing seamless Vim integration with current commands. It's highly customizable and each individual feature can be disabled/enabled easily.
- Improved Syntax highlighting with items such as Functions, Operators, Methods.
- Auto completion support via
gocode
- Better
gofmt
on save, which keeps cursor position and doesn't break your undo history - Go to symbol/declaration with
:GoDef
- Look up documentation with
:GoDoc
inside Vim or open it in browser - Automatically import packages via
:GoImport
or plug it into autosave - Compile your package with
:GoBuild
, install it with:GoInstall
- Quickly execute your current file/files with
:GoRun
- Run
:GoTest
and see any errors in the quickfix window - Automatic
GOPATH
detection based on the directory structure (i.e.gb
projects,godep
vendored projects) - Change or display
GOPATH
with:GoPath
- Create a coverage profile and display annotated source code in browser to see
which functions are covered with
:GoCoverage
- Call
gometalinter
with:GoMetaLinter
, which invokes all possible linters (golint, vet, errcheck, deadcode, etc..) and shows the warnings/errors - Lint your code with
:GoLint
- Run your code through
:GoVet
to catch static errors - Advanced source analysis tools utilizing oracle, such as
:GoImplements
,:GoCallees
, and:GoReferrers
- Precise type-safe renaming of identifiers with
:GoRename
- List all source files and dependencies
- Unchecked error checking with
:GoErrCheck
- Integrated and improved snippets, supporting
ultisnips
orneosnippet
- Share your current code to play.golang.org with
:GoPlay
- On-the-fly type information about the word under the cursor. Plug it into your custom vim function.
- Tagbar support to show tags of the source code in a sidebar with
gotags
- Custom vim text objects such as
a function
orinner function
Vim-go follows the standard runtime path structure, so I highly recommend to use a common and well known plugin manager to install vim-go. Do not use vim-go with other Go oriented vim plugins. For Pathogen just clone the repo. For other plugin managers add the appropriate lines and execute the plugin's install command.
- Pathogen
git clone https://github.com/fatih/vim-go.git ~/.vim/bundle/vim-go
- vim-plug
Plug 'fatih/vim-go'
- NeoBundle
NeoBundle 'fatih/vim-go'
- Vundle
Plugin 'fatih/vim-go'
Please be sure all necessary binaries are installed (such as gocode
, godef
,
goimports
, etc.). You can easily install them with the included
:GoInstallBinaries
command. If invoked, all necessary binaries will be
automatically downloaded and installed to your $GOBIN
environment (if not set
it will use $GOPATH/bin
). Note that this command requires git
for fetching the individual Go
packages.
- Autocompletion is enabled by default via
<C-x><C-o>
. To get real-time completion (completion by type) install: YCM or neocomplete. - To display source code tag information on a sidebar install tagbar.
- For snippet features install: ultisnips or neosnippet.
- Screenshot color scheme is a slightly modified molokai: fatih/molokai.
- For a better documentation viewer checkout: go-explorer.
Many of the plugin's features are enabled by default. There are no
additional settings needed. All usages and commands are listed in
doc/vim-go.txt
. Note that help tags needs to be populated. Check your plugin
manager settings to generate the documentation (some do it automatically).
After that just open the help page to see all commands:
:help vim-go
vim-go has several <Plug>
mappings which can be used to create custom
mappings. Below are some examples you might find useful:
Run commands such as go run
for the current file with <leader>r
or go build
and go test
for the current package with <leader>b
and <leader>t
respectively.
Display beautifully annotated source code to see which functions are covered
with <leader>c
.
au FileType go nmap <leader>r <Plug>(go-run)
au FileType go nmap <leader>b <Plug>(go-build)
au FileType go nmap <leader>t <Plug>(go-test)
au FileType go nmap <leader>c <Plug>(go-coverage)
By default the mapping gd
is enabled, which opens the target identifier in
current buffer. You can also open the definition/declaration, in a new vertical,
horizontal, or tab, for the word under your cursor:
au FileType go nmap <Leader>ds <Plug>(go-def-split)
au FileType go nmap <Leader>dv <Plug>(go-def-vertical)
au FileType go nmap <Leader>dt <Plug>(go-def-tab)
Open the relevant Godoc for the word under the cursor with <leader>gd
or open
it vertically with <leader>gv
au FileType go nmap <Leader>gd <Plug>(go-doc)
au FileType go nmap <Leader>gv <Plug>(go-doc-vertical)
Or open the Godoc in browser
au FileType go nmap <Leader>gb <Plug>(go-doc-browser)
Show a list of interfaces which is implemented by the type under your cursor
with <leader>s
au FileType go nmap <Leader>s <Plug>(go-implements)
Show type info for the word under your cursor with <leader>i
(useful if you
have disabled auto showing type info via g:go_auto_type_info
)
au FileType go nmap <Leader>i <Plug>(go-info)
Rename the identifier under the cursor to a new name
au FileType go nmap <Leader>e <Plug>(go-rename)
More <Plug>
mappings can be seen with :he go-mappings
. Also these are just
recommendations, you are free to create more advanced mappings or functions
based on :he go-commands
.
Below are some settings you might find useful. For the full list see :he go-settings
.
By default syntax-highlighting for Functions, Methods and Structs is disabled. To change it:
let g:go_highlight_functions = 1
let g:go_highlight_methods = 1
let g:go_highlight_structs = 1
let g:go_highlight_operators = 1
let g:go_highlight_build_constraints = 1
Enable goimports to automatically insert import paths instead of gofmt:
let g:go_fmt_command = "goimports"
By default vim-go shows errors for the fmt command, to disable it:
let g:go_fmt_fail_silently = 1
Disable auto fmt on save:
let g:go_fmt_autosave = 0
Disable opening browser after posting your snippet to play.golang.org
:
let g:go_play_open_browser = 0
By default when :GoInstallBinaries
is called, the binaries are installed to
$GOBIN
or $GOPATH/bin
. To change it:
let g:go_bin_path = expand("~/.gotools")
let g:go_bin_path = "/home/fatih/.mypath" "or give absolute path
Sometimes when using both vim-go
and syntastic
Vim will start lagging while saving and opening
files. The following fixes this:
let g:syntastic_go_checkers = ['golint', 'govet', 'errcheck']
let g:syntastic_mode_map = { 'mode': 'active', 'passive_filetypes': ['go'] }
Check out the Wiki page for more information. It includes Screencasts, an FAQ section, and many other various pieces of information.
- Go Authors for official vim plugins
- Gocode, Godef, Golint, Oracle, Goimports, Gotags, Errcheck projects and authors of those projects.
- Other vim-plugins, thanks for inspiration (vim-golang, go.vim, vim-gocode, vim-godef)
- Contributors of vim-go
The BSD 3-Clause License - see LICENSE
for more details