Get started with Go development in minutes!

Quite simply this is a vim configuration which will setup all the necessary Go development environment (and plugins), without overwriting your current Vim settings. Basically, you will be able to use amazing vim-go plugin (plus number of others), without affecting your system's Vim configuration.

Create Directories

mkdir $HOME/.go
mkdir -p $HOME/.go/src/github.com/<user>

Setup your paths

export GOPATH=$HOME/.go
export GOROOT=/usr/local/opt/go/libexec
export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin
export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin

Install Go

brew install go
"go get" the basics
go get golang.org/x/tools/cmd/godoc

mkdir -p ~/.vim/autoload ~/.vim/bundle
curl -LSso ~/.vim/autoload/pathogen.vim https://tpo.pe/pathogen.vim

brew install python3
pip3 install requests
~/.vim_go_runtime/bin/update_plugins

Fork the repo, and then clone it to ~/.vim_go_runtime. Once done, just run installation script:

    git clone git@github.com:farazdagi/vim-go-ide.git ~/.vim_go_runtime
    sh ~/.vim_go_runtime/bin/install

NOTE: You system's Vim configuration will NOT be changed i.e. it is safe to install.

Remember that your system's Vim config files remain untouched? During installation .vimrc.go is created. Let's use it:

vim -u ~/.vimrc.go

And btw, nothing prevents you from creation of a handy alias in your .zshrc:

alias vimgo='vim -u ~/.vimrc.go'

In order for the amazing vim-go to be most useful, run :GoInstallBinaries from w/i the Vim.

~/.profile

export GOPATH=$HOME/.go
export GOROOT=/usr/local/opt/go/libexec
export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin
export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin

alias vimgo='vim -u ~/.vimrc.go'

~/.bashrc

source ~/.profile

~/.zshrc

[[ -e ~/.profile ]] && emulate sh -c 'source ~/.profile'

~/.bash-profile

if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
   source ~/.bashrc
fi

Yep, that's it!

• You can also read a corresponding blog post.
• You are highly advised to review vim-go docs (just typing :help vim-go is also good enough).
• Review list of plugins installed (see bin/update_plugins), and default configuration that comes with this setup (see vimrc folder).
• You can also define your custom settings in ~/.vim_go_runtime/custom_config.vim the runtime will try to load this file - so feel free to remap keys as you see necessary!

If you know some plugin that will enhance this setup and thus should be included - submit a PR