Why not integrade vim to a IDE ?

powerplane · 05-14-2003, 10:23 PM

I have a suggestion:
Why not make a IDE like eclipse/devv-cpp/vs studio by integrading vim?
Built something like project-management, etc. I think it will not be a lot works to do, maybe some hacking and coding. At least much more less than building a whole new one from nothing, since vim is very mature and provide a lot of features, also it is very protable.

Or some body has already did sth like that? Tell me !!

slakmagik · 05-15-2003, 01:34 AM

Cuz then we'd have to change its name to EMACS.

llama_meme · 05-15-2003, 07:01 AM

I would guess that the reason is IDEs are supposed to be easy for beginners to use, and Vim doesn't fit that description. Still, it is the lack of a decent editor that puts me off using most IDEs, so I would certainly be interested in one that used Vim.

I wouldn't really call emacs an IDE because it doesn't have an integrated graphical debugger, or anything like that.

Alex

nakkaya · 05-15-2003, 09:01 PM

most of the ide doesnt give much control to you. you can cutomize emacs how ever you like cause it is a lisp interpreter if you want something you add it. but in ides you dont have that much customization.