Re: IDE+VIM=(mmmm....Donuts) [RE: Java recommendations for young students?]

["Jason R. Kretzer" <jason@OpinionOne.com>]

Unless there is something in VIM that I don't know about, you cannot compile
and run code from VIM.  You still have to go to a command-line.

-Jason

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Sanders" <bsanders@risklabs.com>
To: <ajug-members@ajug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 2:35 PM
Subject: RE: IDE+VIM=(mmmm....Donuts) [RE: Java recommendations for young
students?]


> > Speaking of IDEs. Anyone know of any IDE that has vim(not visual
interdev)
> > keymappings? I know neither JBuilder not Jdeveloper have it. Not sure
> about
> > forte.
>
> Let me swing this question another way: what features of your IDE do you
> find lacking in vim?  Here's my short list based off of a comparison to
> VisualCafe.  However, I can't say that I really use any of these:
>
> - Visual GUI building
> - Automatic generation of EJB deployment descriptors
> - Some debugging features
>
> Just about everything else I've wanted in a Java IDE I've found in vim,
with
> the addition of some publically-available scripts.  Your mileage may vary,
> however.
>
> Oh, and one other VisualCafe feature I've not found in vim:
>
> - Spurious core dumps
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