I was in the same situation a while ago and ended up jumping to netbeans with the free and excellent jvi plugin. However, I feel your pain and when I recently s

I was in the same situation a while ago and ended up jumping to netbeans with the free and excellent jvi plugin. However, I feel your pain and when I recently started using scala on a hobby project I was really happy to be able to just use vim again -- partly because the netbeans support isn't so good for scala and partly because the language "feels" like it doesn't need an IDE.