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The thing that always gets me when trying to use either vim and emacs for IDE-like programming (and don't get me wrong...I have used vim for regular editing for
by rufugee 17y ago
The thing that always gets me when trying to use either vim and emacs for IDE-like programming (and don't get me wrong...I have used vim for regular editing for years), is that someone says, "yeah, (vim|emacs) destroys all other editors and IDEs. You just need to install this list of 400 plugins, write some elisp to configure it, learn each of these 200 keystrokes, understand where the plugins overlap and contradict, and you're golden".
Versus, download Eclipse/Netbeans, open, and start coding.
I want to use vim as an IDE...I just don't have the time.
- Semiapies 17y agoWhen I tried Eclipse, I found it as foreign as emacs, just GUIer. IDEs and editors require learning and configuration once you get much past notepad or pico.
- makecheck 17y agoIt sounds like the challenge is similar to that of a Linux distribution: where it's not just a matter of "installing Linux", but choosing one that has most of what you want already. Perhaps there's a need to have "vim distributions" and "emacs distributions" that come pre-installed and preconfigured according to certain needs, such as this one.