On Saturday, April 16, 2011 at 10:34:55 PM UTC, Taylor Hedberg wrote:
> I do a lot of Java work at my day job and I use Vim as my primary
> editor. However, I do it in conjunction with Eclipse. I thought I'd
> share my experience here as it may be useful to you or others.
>
> There are a couple of plugins for Eclipse that emulate vi-style editing
> in Eclipse's built-in editor, but I was never really satisfied with
> those. They force you to use whatever subset of Vim's commands the
> plugin author decided to implement, and I was constantly running into
> situations where I wanted to do something the "Vim way", but the plugin
> wasn't sophisticated enough to support it.
>
> There's also one plugin that embeds GVim within your Eclipse window, but
> the integration seemed really flaky, and Eclipse seemed to crash or hang
> even more often that it already does while I was running it.
>
> Then there's Eclim <http://eclim.org/>, which allows you to run Eclipse
> as a server and embed a lot of Eclipse's functionality inside of a Vim
> session. Personally, though, I really don't like Eclipse, and I didn't
> want to get any Eclipse in my Vim. Eclipse is an unfortunate necessity
> for a lot of Java development, but I wanted to keep its usage to a
> minimum.
>
> What I eventually settled on was actually rather simple: First, I
> created a small shell script as follows (this is Unix-specific, of
> course, so it won't work if you're on Windows):
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> if [[ $# -eq 0 ]]; then
> vim --servername ECLIPSE_SERVER "+set dir=~/tmp"
> exit
> fi
>
> if [[ -n "$(vim --serverlist | grep ECLIPSE_SERVER)" ]]; then
> vim --servername ECLIPSE_SERVER --remote "$1"
> else
> echo 'Vim server "ECLIPSE_SERVER" not running' >&2
> exit 1
> fi
>
> This script is saved on my path as "vim_eclipse_launch". I can type that
> filename on the command line to start a Vim session in server mode.
> Then, in my Eclipse preferences, I add vim_eclipse_launch as an external
> editor and associate various filetypes (*.java, *.jsp, *.xml,
> *.properties, etc.) with that editor. That way, when I open a file from
> within Eclipse, e.g. by clicking on the filename in the project
> explorer, it pops up in my Vim window instead of in Eclipse's built-in
> editor.
>
> It helps to use this in conjunction with a tiling window manager like
> xmonad or dwm, so you can have Vim and Eclipse easily positioned
> side-by-side. I also use some popular Vim plugins like Taglist and
> NERDTree to make it easier to manage large amounts of Java code within
> Vim instead of having to jump back over to Eclipse for that sort of
> thing. Over time, I've grown quite accustomed to working this way and I
> think it's pretty much the best of both worlds. The only thing better
> would be to eliminate Eclipse entirely, but that's really not feasible
> with Java.
>
> Anyway, this may not appeal to everyone, as you are still lacking
> Eclipse's "intelligent" auto-completion when working this way, and there
> are some other rough edges, such as the fact that Eclipse doesn't see
> the edits you've made in the Vim session until you explicitly tell it to
> refresh the file or project. But it works well enough for me, and it
> makes me not hate working in Java so much anymore. A little Vim makes
> anything better!
Hi Taylor,
Like you I'm vim-fan, and u saved my life, thats the best satisfaction i could get vim+eclipse.
Thank You
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