IDEs With VIM Text Editing Capability? 193
An anonymous reader writes "I am currently looking to move from text editing with vim to a full fledged IDE with gdb integration, integrated command line, etc. Extending VIM with these capabilities is a mortal sin, so I am looking for a linux based GUI IDE. I do not want to give up the efficient text editing capabilities of VIM though. How do I have my cake and eat it too?"
Why not extend vim? (Score:3, Insightful)
At the risk of starting a flame war (Score:5, Insightful)
Try Emacs.
Seriously. The integration with gdb, gcc, etc is where Emacs really shines. Yes, the Control-Meta-cokebottle commands are a bit annoying, but there's worthwhile tradeoffs there.
The first post was also quite useful. And to be fair, I like vim too.
Gvim (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Why not extend vim? (Score:4, Insightful)
The poster probably doesn't want to have to learn keybindings for a new editor. He may even already know them but just prefers vim keybindings. What he really probably wants is the luxuries of of a full IDE without having to give up the editing flexibility and familiarity he has with vim.
Extend Vim (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Emacs! (Score:1, Insightful)
Old joke. Stop using it. Now.
Re:At the risk of starting a flame war (Score:3, Insightful)
Try Emacs.
Seriously. The integration with gdb, gcc, etc is where Emacs really shines. Yes, the Control-Meta-cokebottle commands are a bit annoying, but there's worthwhile tradeoffs there.
The first post was also quite useful. And to be fair, I like vim too.
Been there, done that, emacs, x-emacs, emacs with the GTK stuff. Am sticking with vim. I've been using vim since 1992-1993, back on my Amiga.
Re:At the risk of starting a flame war (Score:4, Insightful)
I've only been using VI for 10 years, but still is almost impossible for me to work in any editor now where there aren't modes.
What made me choose VI over Emacs back in the day [tm] was the fact that my hands aren't build for the ctrl voodoo used in Emacs.
Re:At the risk of starting a flame war (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Why not extend vim? (Score:2, Insightful)
If you wanted lean and fast, you'd run vi, not vim.
Re:Netbeans ( or others ) (Score:0, Insightful)
The 1960's called and said they want their smelly hippy beards and antiquated programmer tools back.
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Re:At the risk of starting a flame war (Score:3, Insightful)
Here's how you should type a typical Emacs chordal command: use both hands. For example, M-x is typed by pressing the x with the left hand, and the ALT with the right hand. This is touch typing 101. (Similarly, you would type a capital letter by pressing the letter with the nearest hand, and pressing shift with the other hand.)
You can still reprogram your keyboard, and you can change the key combinations in your .emacs if you prefer something else, but if you think about it a little, all the commands you're likely to need can be typed comfortably if you use both hands simultaneously.
command mode baby.. (Score:4, Insightful)
if I want to change all of the X to - in an amino acid sequence line I type :s/X/\-/g
yea.. I'm sure that emacs can do it too.. But once all that brainpower is invested, theres no way I'd bother with emacs.. It's like a secretary changing to dvorak after she's hit 200wpm
vim is fast, powerful, user friendly, and quite picky about it's friends.
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