I have found 3 and would like to know other people's ideas:
Eclim is sort of the "wrong" way around. It takes eclipse to vim. I want to take vim to eclipse. I've put it there cos its just cool!
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A:
Eclim is not the correct approach in my opinion. You want to retain the flexibility and functionality of the IDE while gaining the editing power of Vim.
I used viPlugin when I was working with Eclipse. However it is not free (unlike the IntelliJ Idea Vim plugin). It also is not as thorough as the Visual Studio Vim plugin. You'll find that certain functionality is missing. Things like Ctrl+] to "go to definition" or Ctrl+o for "go back" don't work. Macros don't work either however it does have marks. It provides the core functionality of Vim text editing. If I recall correctly you can even have a simple vimrc configuration file. You can do a free trial to test it out.
Apparently Vrapper has macros and marks, as well as the following commands:
Motions
h j k l w W e E b B f F t T ; , ^ $ 0 % G H M L gg ge gE
Operators
y Y d D c C s S p P r J x X i I a A o O . < > gc gu gU
Search
/ ? n N * #
Text Objects (only in normal mode)
ib i( i) i[ i] iB i{ i} i i" i' i` iw iW ab a( a) a[ a] aB a{ a} a a" a' a` aw aW
Counts
You can use the number keys to specify counts in front of other commands. Other Commands
v V u <C-R> <C-F> <C-B> ~ q @ zo zR zc zM zz gt gT
Plus it's free, so I'd go with that one.
Pierre-Antoine LaFayette
2010-02-10 17:36:52
Tried Vimplugin but couldn't get it to work. I was hesitant to try Vrapper b/c it looks too young (v0.14) but it seems to work decently. At least I can navigate faster.
hyperslug
2010-04-19 00:35:55
+1
A:
Viplugin is a steaming pile but I do believe it's the best there is. For instance, you can't rub out the last line in the file (dd). It doesn't have the help system built in, and a lot of the : don't work. Essentially every major part of vim has some serious deficiency in viplugin. Plus it's 'for pay.'
Nick
2010-02-10 17:49:42