Dotfiles

Install

Run install.sh. After that, if you are not using zsh, you may want to restart your session. Also, you may need to do source reload.sh to reload settings.

Note we create symlinks instead of hard copies. If one configuration file already exists, it will be backed up. The backup file will be saved in ~/.dotfiles_backup.

All configurations are light so that they work on new machines. However, if you don't have some basic programs like zsh, git, python curl installed, you may need root privilege to install these programs.

Proxy

Copy the following to ~/.local/bin/proxy:

#!/bin/bash
export http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:1087
export https_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:1087
$@

Then

chmod u+x ~/.local/bin/proxy

Recommended tools

tldr: quickly figure out the usage of most commands
autojump: jump to recently visited locations
nnn: interactive terminal navigator. Supports cd on quit with <ctrl+g>
htop: interactive top
fzf: fuzzy file finder, and improves command line reverse search.
gpustat: monitor gpu usage. Way better than nvidia-smi
ripgrep: best grep tool
rclone: command line tool for managing cloud files
psync: rsync project files with a configuration file. If you see yaml issues you can directly modify the source file.
git difftool --tool=vimdiff

Iterm2 setup

Settings -> Profiles -> Keys -> General, set left option key to be Esc +
Settings -> Profiles -> Keys -> Key Mapping, make ^/ send 0x1f. This is used for commenting.

Colors

vim: molokai
iterm2: default

Language servers, Linting Tools, ...

Choices

The final solution is

ale + [flake8, pylint] + yapf for linting and fixing. I didn't use vim-lsp because ale provides more fine-grained error highlighting while vim-lsp imply highlights the whole line. flake8 with plugins is very complete, but limited because it checks each file individually. pylint is for errors like invalid imports, invalid members and invalid arguments.
vim-lsp for the language server protocal client. It is the only one that supports popup for signature help. Otherwise vim-lsc is also good.
jedi-language-server for the language server protocal server. It is the only one that (currently) supports workspace symbol search. And it is lightweight.

Installation

You need to install jedi-language-server to support vim-lsp. With vim-lsp-settings, you only need this:

LspInstallServer jedi-language-server

The server will be installed in $HOME/.local/share/servers. Note that jedi-language-server is aware of your virtual environment, and handles system paths correctly.

vim-lsp-settings allows per-project configuration. See :LspSettingsLocalEdit. I guess it can find the settings because of the automatic root guess. This allows sending project specific configurations to the servers, by changing the registered information.

To enable linting and fixing in vim, install flake8, yapf and pylint

pip install flake8
pip install pylint
pip install yapf

Note, you should install pylint under the virtual environment you want to get correct behavior. It is not aware of the virtual environment. It checks the imported module files. In contrast flake8 checks files individually. It doesn't care about whether the imported module exists or a member exists so it is fine to install it globally.

Recommended flake8 plugins:

pip install flake8-unused-arguments
pip install flake8-todo
pip install flake8-multiline-containers

Project Root, Import Paths...

`flake8`

pyflakes checks each file individually. So there's no need to worry about paths.

`pylint`

pylint: we only consider the case where a path to a python file is given. Eventually, it is translated into a source root, and a set of fully qualified module names. Example

a
├── b
│   ├── __init__.py
│   └── c
│       ├── __init__.py
│       └── hihi.py
└── haha.py

And assume pylint hihi.py.

The translation is done as follows:

Expand the path given into absolute path. Yes, the current working directory is not used at all.
Determine the source root: starting from bottom, the first directory that does NOT contain __init__.py is seen as the project root. In the above, a is the source root.
The source root is added to the "virtual" sys.path for checking imports.
The fully qualified module name is from the source root. I.e. b.c.hihi.

Besides, pylint is not aware of virtual environment. So, you have to install it in the virtual environment you want.

Language servers

At startup, LSP clients send a request to LSP servers for connection. The request contains a rootUri attributes that states the workspace root. This root is used for workspace symbol search etc.

So, the LSP client determines the root. vim-lsp provides a registration function that takes a lambda for the root. vim-lsp-settings call that function provides the actual lambda that computes the root. The root is the nearest directory that contains one of the "markers" (e.g., .git/). If no such markers exist, the root seems to be set to be the cwd or the directory containing the current file (not sure).

jedi-language-server uses the root to give suggestions on imports. It seems it adds some of the intermediate paths from the project root to the virtual sys.path, instead only adding the root. The actual rule is still unclear. Seems to be due to smart_sys_path here. The actual rule seems to be defined here. Relative imports behave normally though.

It is aware of the virtual environment. So it doesn't matter which jedi-language-server you can calling.

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