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by MooMooMilkParty 3427 days ago
The one thing I'd love to see, as a vim user and a scientist, is something like Matlab/RStudio/Spyder where you can explore variables that exist within a session. Maybe it could hook up to an ipython session and you could display it in a separate terminal and send commands with vim-slime to be updated in real time.

For the most part, when I need this, I revert to Rodeo (since it has vim bindings like RStudio's), but if I could ditch it that would be amazing. Nothing against Rodeo or other editors, but vim habits are hard to break.
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javitury 3427 days ago
I know you are looking for a python plugin. But since you mention R, have you tried nvim-R? Works for vim 8+

https://github.com/jalvesaq/Nvim-R

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ice109 3427 days ago
pycharm let's you do this! this is the only thing I missed from MATLAB. you can set a breakpoint in a script and open up the debug console and see all the live variables and run code. it works perfectly and you get Python + pycharm. I'm spoiled now and anticipate having trouble moving to another language.
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c06n 3427 days ago
It's been a while that I have used it, but I used to do that in Matlab all the time. The shortcut in the IDE was F9, I think.
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