Question

In my IDE (webstorm) I have configured an external tool to run ant like so:

ant myTarget -DfileNoExt="$FileNameWithoutExtension$"

the $FileNameWithoutExtension$ is expanded by the IDE when the command is run.

I am transitioning to using Vim. I am a Vim n00b.

How do I do the same with Vim (MacVim specifically)?

Answer 1

Vim will expand % as the current file. You can use modifiers on it (see :help filename-modifiers). You can tell vim to use ant as your make program:

compiler ant
setlocal makeprg=ant\ myTarget\ -DfileNoExt=\"%:t:r\"

Now you can use :make to build your current file. You should get build errors in your quickfix (view it with :copen).

You probably want to put the above script into a file ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/java.vim. That will load it for every java file you open.

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Note that if you want to use different targets, :make will pass all arguments to ant. So :make otherTarget will execute ant myTarget -DfileNoExt="file" otherTarget.