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IDEs With VIM Text Editing Capability?

Posted by timothy on from the one-keybinding-to-rule-them-all dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I am currently looking to move from text editing with vim to a full fledged IDE with gdb integration, integrated command line, etc. Extending VIM with these capabilities is a mortal sin, so I am looking for a linux based GUI IDE. I do not want to give up the efficient text editing capabilities of VIM though. How do I have my cake and eat it too?"

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  1. At the risk of starting a flame war by dkleinsc · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Try Emacs.

    Seriously. The integration with gdb, gcc, etc is where Emacs really shines. Yes, the Control-Meta-cokebottle commands are a bit annoying, but there's worthwhile tradeoffs there.

    The first post was also quite useful. And to be fair, I like vim too.

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    1. Re:At the risk of starting a flame war by Splab · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I've only been using VI for 10 years, but still is almost impossible for me to work in any editor now where there aren't modes.

      What made me choose VI over Emacs back in the day [tm] was the fact that my hands aren't build for the ctrl voodoo used in Emacs.

  2. Gvim by theinvisibleguy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Gvim is pretty good, it might still be too lean for what you are asking for, I would say it's more an intermediary step between vim and a big gui ide.

  3. Re:Why not extend vim? by Subliminalbits · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The poster probably doesn't want to have to learn keybindings for a new editor. He may even already know them but just prefers vim keybindings. What he really probably wants is the luxuries of of a full IDE without having to give up the editing flexibility and familiarity he has with vim.

  4. Extend Vim by __aalruu9610 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Mortal sin? First, get over your ridiculous predisposition against extending vim. Vim is built to be extended, and extending it can make it much more useful as a tool and not just an editor. If you're good enough in Vim to prefer it as a text editor, then make it comfortable as an environment. There are some amazing extensions for vim, that for me at least, make me much more productive than using an "IDE". Fuzzy file finder, exuberant ctags with taglist, minibufexplorer...

  5. command mode baby.. by tempest69 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    if I want line 200 I type in 199j from the top..

    if I want to change all of the X to - in an amino acid sequence line I type :s/X/\-/g

    yea.. I'm sure that emacs can do it too.. But once all that brainpower is invested, theres no way I'd bother with emacs.. It's like a secretary changing to dvorak after she's hit 200wpm

    vim is fast, powerful, user friendly, and quite picky about it's friends.

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