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Vimplugin is an Eclipse plugin that brings the power of the editor Vim to the Eclipse IDE. Vim is one of the most powerful editors around. But it is not an IDE. On the other hand, Eclipse is one of the most powerful IDEs. But its editor lacks many of the features vim offers. Vim is lean, Eclipse is extensible. So, just take the best of two worlds.

This tip provides a (Windows only) means of using gvim as an external editor for almost any other program. This script has been tested with Lotus Notes and Internet Explorer on Windows NT.

lipbrd : Clipboard and other register content editor.

Tired of debugging Python using print statements? Don't like the cumbersome PDB (Python debugger) console? Prefer using Vim for coding your Python programs? VimPdb is the solution - allows debugging Python in an IDE-fashion, right within the Vim editor.

If a file type you want to use is not detected, then there are two ways to add it.

Hyper-Linking to include files: Place cursor over the file name (i.e. #include "fileABC.h") Enter the letter combination: gf (go to file) This will load file fileABC.h into vim. Use the following entry in your ~/.vimrc file to define file paths. Change path to something appropriate if necessary. "Recursively set the path of the project.set path=$PWD/**

I use Decho; its an instrumented-code type of debugging tool. You can get the Decho plugin from: http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=120 -or- http://mysite.verizon.net/astronaut/vim/index.html#DECHO (this latter one is always the most up-to-date) To install if you're using vim7.1: 1. Install a new version of Decho: vim Decho.vba.gz :so % :q Regards, Chip Campbell

>What is the best practice to have variable values being echod/written >somewhere during execution which doens't impact the execution negatively?

description Several modern GUI editors list your open buffers as tabs along the top or bottom of your screen (VisualStudio, DreamWeaver, EditPlus and UltraEdit come to mind), now we have this feature in VIM! You can checkout a screenshot here: http://www.wavell.net/vim/vim_screenshot.gif. You can quickly switch buffers by double-clicking the appropriate "tab" (if you don't want to use the mouse just put the cursor on the "tab" and press enter). As you open and close buffers the tabs get updated. Buffers that are modified get visually marked and buffers that are open in a window get visually marked. The -MiniBufferExplorer- opens automatically when you open more than one eligible buffer (no need to open the explorer if you’re only editing one file.) -MiniBufExplorer- doesn't bother showing non-modifiable or hidden buffers. You can delete buffers by selecting them and pressing d on the keyboard.

Clewn implements full gdb support in the vim editor: breakpoints, watch variables, gdb command completion, assembly windows, etc.

Vim Outliner is a vim plugin that turns the powerful vim editor into a powerful outliner of the likes of GrandView, More and MaxThink. It is keyboarder friendly and very fast. If you can touchtype, you can outline as fast as you think.

I've read a lot of tips about how to make vim as an IDE like editor. Most of them are really useful, and I want to sum up them in this tip, and then add some of my experiences.

A guy I work with told me about a function that an old IBM text editor had that he said was useful, and that is to create folds in the file after a search such that every line that is visible contains the search pattern(except possibly the first). All lines that do not contain the search pattern are folded up to the last occurence of the pattern or the top of the file.  One use for such a function is to be able to make a quick and dirty api of a source file.  For example, if working in Java, you could run the function using the pattern "public|protected|private" and ithe results would be that only the method headers would be visible (well, close enough).  

augroup foo   au!   au CursorMovedI,InsertEnter * if search('\k\{2,}\%#\k\@!','ncb') |               \ call feedkeys("\<c-n>\<c-p>","t") | endif augroup END inoremap <expr><cr> pumvisible()?"\<c-n>\<c-y> ":"\<cr>" Pressing return-key will accept the first match. Be ready to exit the editor.

Assuming you're in normal mode and cursor is on a '('. %x<C-O>x -ap

Pyclewn is a python program that allows the use of the vim editor as a front end to a debugger. Pyclewn currently supports the gdb debugger.