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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. Netbeans ( or others ) by stoolpigeon · · Score: 5, Informative

    Netbeans with the Vi Vim for netbeans plugin.
     
    Netbeans is FOSS, runs on Windows, Linux and OS X. It handles Java, C/C++, PHP, Python, Ruby, Groovy and does a bunch of other stuff.
     
    There is the viPlugin for Eclipse as well - I just happen to like Netbeans better.
     
    The ActiveState folks list VI key bindings as a feature for their Komodo and Komodo Edit products. These are closed source though Komodo Edit is free as in beer. It is cross platform - covering the win/lin/mac world.
     
    I'm sure there are other options but those are the largest projects I know of that do what you want.

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    1. Re:Netbeans ( or others ) by iMaple · · Score: 5, Informative

      And if you want to use Visual Studio then visit the main download page
      http://www.vim.org/download.php and get:
      ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/pc/gvim72ole.zip
      (OLE GUI executable, A GUI version with OLE support. This offers a few extra features, such as integration with Visual Developer Studio. But it uses quite a bit more memory.)

      And you can safely disregard the more memory part, if you are already using visual studio :D

      http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Integrate_gvim_with_Visual_Studio for tips if you need help setting it up.

  2. Emacs! by Saint+Aardvark · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is there anything Emacs can't do? :-)

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  3. Vim has integration already by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Umm vim supports plugins, and there is of course a GDB one.

    Also there is an integrated command line called :!
    or if you want to get more fancy you can open multiple buffers and :%!whatever to replace it with output

    Vim easily integrates with the shell. You just have to know how to use both.

  4. 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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