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Vim made easy: how to get your favorite IDE features in Vim
- solutionyogi 17y agoOR get Vim in your Visual Studio. http://viemu.com http://viemu.com I think getting Vim in VS is much better option because I can't live without Resharper. Now I get best of both the worlds!
- brentr 17y agoDo you know of something like this for emacs?
- bretthoerner 17y agoWhat, Emacs-like keybindings for Visual Studio? That seems kind of like putting a steering wheel on your coffee table and calling it an Aston Martin.
- brentr 17y agoI don't knock something till I try it. I have been using Emacs recently, and I like it. I was simply asking a question. I was not looking to be made fun of.
- bretthoerner 17y agoI wasn't making fun of you - I was pointing out that (in my opinion) what makes Emacs Emacs can't really just be a "plugin" thrown onto an IDE. Maybe a better analogy would be asking what sort of engine I need to purchase to turn my Civic into a 747.
- jmtulloss 17y agoWhile that's true, it can be kind of a pain in the ass to learn different key bindings for every program you might have to use.
- zcrar70 17y agoActually, Visual Studio does come with Emacs-like keybindings by default - check out Tools > Options > Keyboard, and choose the Emacs option from the dropdown menu. Nice analogy though :-)
- zcrar70 17y agoViEmu rocks. I hope the guy who wrote it does reasonably out of it, because it's a great piece of software.
- w1ntermute 17y agoOn that note, you can also emulate Vim in Eclipse: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ http://eclim.sourceforge.net/
- sreque 17y agoAlthough not free, I find the plugin at viplugin.com to integrate far better with Eclipse. Eclim to me feels like I'm running two separate applications, vim and eclipse, and they don't seem to play together very well. The implementation of the viplugin.com emulation layer isn't nearly as good as actual vim, but the eclipse integration more than makes up for it. On that note, if you prefer netbeans to eclipse, the jvi plugin for netbeans is much better than the eclipse vi plugin and I very rarely miss a vim feature when using it, and it's completely free as well. I really wish there were something as good as the jvi plugin available for eclipse, as eclipse is more feature-rich for java projects.
- mrduncan 17y agoAnother which I'm surprised wasn't mentioned - NERDTree (http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1658 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1658) will give you a tree view of files and folders.
- igorgue 17y agoI love NERDTree as a matter of fact I got it mapped to <F3>[1] (it only works on Linux and Windows) [1]: map <F3> :NERDTreeToggle <CR>
- itodd 17y agoI can't believe they talked about MiniBuffExplorer and didn't mention Vim 7's tabs.
- graywh 17y agoWhy? Because you think Vim's tabline is a replacement for :ls<CR> ? I talk to a lot of people trying to use Vim's tabs the way other editors use tabs--to list the open files--but it doesn't always work.
- tokipin 17y agojust wanna mention my setup, which is to bind the tabs to Alt+number keys: map <A-1> 1gt map <A-2> 2gt map <A-3> 3gt . . .
- itodd 17y agoI don't think it's a replacement for :ls<CR>. I simply think it is worth mentioning both in an article called "Vim made easy...".
- graywh 17y agoSorry. That's what I assumed since you compared tabpages to MiniBuffExplorer. MBE does what a lot of people think the tabline should do, but doesn't.
- asb 17y agoDefinitely. At first I made the mistake thinking that tabs were there to help me manage my buffers (and used them for this purpose, remapping :e to :tabe), but it turns out that instead they're just workspaces, which isn't what I actually want most of the time. I use buftabs (http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1664 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1664) to display the list of open buffers in the status line, and map the right and left arrows to :bnext and :bprev.
- mapleoin 17y agothe colorscheme being used is oceandeep: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=368 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=368 in case you were wondering...
- jasonkester 17y agoAll I want is CTRL+C and CTRL+V, and to not have to type I before I can edit anything. Is there any way to tell the thing to simply behave like Notepad so that I can edit some text?
- graywh 17y agoIf you want to use Vim without learning how to use Vim, you're probably better off not using Vim.
- jasonkester 17y agoI'd actually prefer not to use vim, but it appears that the only alternative is editing the files on a windows box and FTPing them across, which is actually slightly more painful. If you know of a good command-line text editor that actually behaves like a text editor, I'd love to hear about it.
- pookleblinky 17y agoI'm an emacs junkie, but I still have to stand up for the vimfidels and say, "man, you just don't get it" That being said, emacs -nw It is the answer to all your problems and will give you oral pleasure.
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- ori_b 17y agoAll I want is for my car to behave like walking. How can I replace the ignition key with tying shoelaces? Vim is really a crude programming language for text manipulation, more than anything else. Trying to use it like notepad throws out more or less all the reasons you would have for using it. (As a side note: there are wrappers around it that try to do what you want. see 'evim' or 'cream')
- jasonkester 17y ago