Vim made easy: how to get your favorite IDE features in Vim

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/guides/2009/05/vim-made-easy-how-to-get-your-favorite-ide-features-in-vim.ars

by sdfx • 17 years ago

67 44 17 years ago

OR get Vim in your Visual Studio. http://viemu.com I think getting Vim in VS is much better option because I can't live without Resharper. Now I get best of both the worlds!

brentr2• 17 years ago

Do you know of something like this for emacs?

bretthoerner2• 17 years ago

What, Emacs-like keybindings for Visual Studio? That seems kind of like putting a steering wheel on your coffee table and calling it an Aston Martin.

zcrar702• 17 years ago

ViEmu rocks. I hope the guy who wrote it does reasonably out of it, because it's a great piece of software.

w1ntermute• 17 years ago

On that note, you can also emulate Vim in Eclipse: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/

sreque• 17 years ago

Although not free, I find the plugin at viplugin.com to integrate far better with Eclipse. Eclim to me feels like I'm running two separate applications, vim and eclipse, and they don't seem to play together very well. The implementation of the viplugin.com emulation layer isn't nearly as good as actual vim, but the eclipse integration more than makes up for it.

On that note, if you prefer netbeans to eclipse, the jvi plugin for netbeans is much better than the eclipse vi plugin and I very rarely miss a vim feature when using it, and it's completely free as well. I really wish there were something as good as the jvi plugin available for eclipse, as eclipse is more feature-rich for java projects.

mrduncan• 17 years ago

Another which I'm surprised wasn't mentioned - NERDTree (http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1658) will give you a tree view of files and folders.

igorgue• 17 years ago

I love NERDTree as a matter of fact I got it mapped to <F3>[1] (it only works on Linux and Windows)

[1]: map <F3> :NERDTreeToggle <CR>

itodd2• 17 years ago

I can't believe they talked about MiniBuffExplorer and didn't mention Vim 7's tabs.

graywh3• 17 years ago

Why? Because you think Vim's tabline is a replacement for :ls<CR> ? I talk to a lot of people trying to use Vim's tabs the way other editors use tabs--to list the open files--but it doesn't always work.

tokipin• 17 years ago

just wanna mention my setup, which is to bind the tabs to Alt+number keys:

  map <A-1> 1gt
  map <A-2> 2gt
  map <A-3> 3gt
        .
        .
        .

itodd2• 17 years ago

I don't think it's a replacement for :ls<CR>. I simply think it is worth mentioning both in an article called "Vim made easy...".

mapleoin• 17 years ago

the colorscheme being used is oceandeep: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=368

in case you were wondering...

jasonkester8• 17 years ago

All I want is CTRL+C and CTRL+V, and to not have to type I before I can edit anything. Is there any way to tell the thing to simply behave like Notepad so that I can edit some text?

graywh3• 17 years ago

If you want to use Vim without learning how to use Vim, you're probably better off not using Vim.

jasonkester8• 17 years ago

I'd actually prefer not to use vim, but it appears that the only alternative is editing the files on a windows box and FTPing them across, which is actually slightly more painful. If you know of a good command-line text editor that actually behaves like a text editor, I'd love to hear about it.

ori_b4• 17 years ago

All I want is for my car to behave like walking. How can I replace the ignition key with tying shoelaces?

Vim is really a crude programming language for text manipulation, more than anything else. Trying to use it like notepad throws out more or less all the reasons you would have for using it.

(As a side note: there are wrappers around it that try to do what you want. see 'evim' or 'cream')

jasonkester8• 17 years ago

Both evim and cream appear to be GUI wrappers for vim. I'm hoping for the opposite: a usable text editor for SSH sessions. I mean really, if you have access to a GUI environment, why would you use something as primitive as vi?

Know of anything that would fit the bill?

tannerburson• 17 years ago

So why even use it? If you're on linux grab Gedit or Kate, on OSX just use the built in textpad, and on windows, you've obviously got Notepad.

jasonkester8• 17 years ago

I'm forced to use it because it's the only text editor that comes pre-installed on Linux. I'd love to find something else. How does one go about "grabbing" these things? Are they usable in an SSH session?

asb2• 17 years ago

If you want a really simply text-mode editor, just use nano/pico.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nano_(text_editor)

You may also like Cream (an easy to use configuration of vim - perhaps gvim only?)

http://cream.sourceforge.net/

jasonkester8• 17 years ago

Thanks for the link, but how does one go about downloading and installing Nano? My only access to an EC2 Linux machine is via the command line, so there's no visiting the website, downloading and unzipping it. Am I really expected to visit that site from a windows box, view source on the download page, paste the url into an ssh session and do a wget just to get a copy of the source code? And then compile it before I can use it? Just so that I can edit text???

This is a fundamental thing I've never understood about Linux, and probably the reason I find it so painful. I can only assume there is something I'm missing. Any help would be much appreciated.

lena• 17 years ago

You may like cream ( http://cream.sourceforge.net/ ).

shiranaihito• 17 years ago

I hated vim the first time I ever tried it. It's "natural" to hate it if you're used to only Windowsy things (as I was).

After trying it out a couple of times, though, I came to realize that I like it.

Maybe you could give it another chance or two.

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