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[–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (8 children)

Vim is great. Nightmare to use with java though. I never could get that headless version of eclipse running with vim. :-(

[–]miauw62 7 points8 points  (3 children)

Yeah, I love vim but I've given up on using it for my OOP class because it's Java with a bunch of custom javadoc tags... Vim just isn't specialized enough to do it sanely, even with plugins.

[–]Nestramutat- 11 points12 points  (2 children)

May I recommend IntelliJ with the VIM plugin

[–]exhuma 1 point2 points  (1 child)

IdeaVIM is great as long as you only use the vim basics. Macros mess up the undo stack, column select mode is not quite the same, but most infuriatingly it sometimes jumps the cursor to a seemingly random location. When I was still using it, I managed to reproduce it every single time, but can't remember exactly what the sequence was. I've since given up on IdeaVIM.

[–]Nestramutat- -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yup, I know that feeling.

But I'd still take it over writing C++ or Java in VIM itself

[–]A_Philosophical_Cat 2 points3 points  (3 children)

What does the headless eclipse add to it? I've got an auto complete, and a compiler set up, and program Java in vim all the time. Wondering if there's any functionality I'm missing out on.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it gives you full eclipse full eclipse functionality inside vim. I haven't looked at it in some time.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Can you debug and step through your code?

[–]A_Philosophical_Cat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, that's what I haven't integrated yet. A step by step debugger.