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

[Brian Sanders <bsanders@risklabs.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.

You can set up Java compilation by setting the option 'makeprg'.  I prefer,
instead, to use Shad Gregory's ANT plugin to do my compilation.
I'm not arguing that vim provides the same out-of-the-box experience of an
IDE, but in the 4 months since I started using vim I've been very pleased at
what a full-featured development environment it can be.

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Brian Sanders          Java Developer          Risk Labs, LLC
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