+1 for gVim on Windows. I'm a long time terminal vim user on Linux but I've found gVim to be a good fit for developing on Windows. I would recommend hooking y

+1 for gVim on Windows. I'm a long time terminal vim user on Linux but I've found gVim to be a good fit for developing on Windows. I would recommend hooking your compiler output up to the quickfix window so you can hop around to error messages. Other than that the stock setup will probably be a good base to go from.