Linux - VIM as Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

In this post I would like to present you my configuration of vim text editor as Integrated Development Environment (IDE).

In my daily work I am not using big IDE environments like Eclipse, NetBeans or other. Instead, I am using vim text editor configured with number of plugins, which contains all of most important features of traditional IDE environment and additionally I don't need to resign with VIM advantages like speed and flexibility.

Using that VIM as IDE configuration I comfortably work with following programming languages on the daily basis:

C/C++
Java
Python
Bash
JavaScript
HTML
CSS

My VIM as IDE configuration is publically available in github. You can clone it from here:

git clone https://github.com/xmementoit/vim-ide

It is under continous development so you can expect adding new features in the future.

Video presentation of main features of my VIM as IDE environment can be found on youtube:

I am aware that starting with big VIM as IDE configuration can be difficult at the beginning. Therefore, before you will use VIM as IDE extensively, I strongly recommend to learn VIM basics before. Especially, I encourage to spend some time with this Learn VIM Progressively tutorial

Good luck with your VIM adventure !!

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