Setting up vim for up-to-date Python development

[Rory Campbell-Lange]

Dear Vim List

I am a long time vim user, but struggling to use vim for up-to-date python development using poetry and ruff. I could do with some help, also to bring my plugins up-to-date with contemporary practice.

My favoured model for development is vim-go (for Golang) with ^X-O for function/method expansion only, and to see help, when I want it and ^] to jump to a definition. Seeing recommended fixes is fine but only if I enable it; I don't want floating windows while typing.

coc/coc-pyright seems very elegant but I'm not sure how to fit it into my preferred model. Also I'd prefer not to have npm on my machine. The floating windows as I type is very much something I do *not* want.

My vim setup is pretty much a mess after 20 years, so maybe its time to start again. I only seem to use:

- align (https://github.com/vim-scripts/Align)
- drawit (https://github.com/vim-scripts/DrawIt)
- vim-go (https://github.com/fatih/vim-go)
- syntastic (outdated?)

...through a mess of different installers etc.

I guess it's time to take a backup and start again.

Thoughts on achieving an effective Python development environment and the best plugin manager to achieve this would be very gratefully received.

Many thanks,
Rory