Vim IDE Note

Here's how I turned VIM into a modern IDE.

Content

• Overall
  • Plugin Management - Pathogen
• Java Part
  • Java code completion - VJDE

Overall

Plugin Management - Pathogen

Download from github: https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen

Extract to ~/.vim/autoload or %homepath%\vimfiles\autoload.

Edit vimrc, add following:

" For Pathogen Plugin manager
call pathogen#infect() " Infect so that pathogen auto-install all plugins
call pathogen#helptags() " Build up things inside 'doc' directory.

Then add plugins into bundle folder inside vimfiles. Pathogen will does everything else for you. Java Part

Java code completion - VJDE

Note: To make the bes to modern IDE like Eclipse, I strongly suggest you to try eclim, a great tool which embed vim directly into Eclipse.

Using Script: Vim JDE

Download and extract to into bundle folder inside default folder (e.g. ~/.vim under Linux) within a new vjde folder (so we can manage plugins better).

Then when editing Java files we can use to invode auto completion (vjde will find all possible methods/fields inside).