Vim made easy: how to get your favorite IDE features in Vim

[solutionyogi]

OR get Vim in your Visual Studio. http://viemu.com I think getting Vim in VS is much better option because I can't live without Resharper. Now I get best of both the worlds!

[zcrar70]

ViEmu rocks. I hope the guy who wrote it does reasonably out of it, because it's a great piece of software.

[w1ntermute]

On that note, you can also emulate Vim in Eclipse: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/

[brentr]

Do you know of something like this for emacs?

[mrduncan]

Another which I'm surprised wasn't mentioned - NERDTree (http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1658) will give you a tree view of files and folders.

[igorgue]

I love NERDTree as a matter of fact I got it mapped to <F3>[1] (it only works on Linux and Windows)

[1]: map <F3> :NERDTreeToggle <CR>

[mapleoin]

the colorscheme being used is oceandeep: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=368

in case you were wondering...

[itodd]

I can't believe they talked about MiniBuffExplorer and didn't mention Vim 7's tabs.

[graywh]

Why? Because you think Vim's tabline is a replacement for :ls<CR> ? I talk to a lot of people trying to use Vim's tabs the way other editors use tabs--to list the open files--but it doesn't always work.

[jasonkester]

All I want is CTRL+C and CTRL+V, and to not have to type I before I can edit anything. Is there any way to tell the thing to simply behave like Notepad so that I can edit some text?

[ori_b]

All I want is for my car to behave like walking. How can I replace the ignition key with tying shoelaces?

Vim is really a crude programming language for text manipulation, more than anything else. Trying to use it like notepad throws out more or less all the reasons you would have for using it.

(As a side note: there are wrappers around it that try to do what you want. see 'evim' or 'cream')

[asb]

If you want a really simply text-mode editor, just use nano/pico.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nano_(text_editor)

You may also like Cream (an easy to use configuration of vim - perhaps gvim only?)

http://cream.sourceforge.net/

[graywh]

If you want to use Vim without learning how to use Vim, you're probably better off not using Vim.

[tannerburson]

So why even use it? If you're on linux grab Gedit or Kate, on OSX just use the built in textpad, and on windows, you've obviously got Notepad.

[lena]

You may like cream ( http://cream.sourceforge.net/ ).

[shiranaihito]

I hated vim the first time I ever tried it. It's "natural" to hate it if you're used to only Windowsy things (as I was).

After trying it out a couple of times, though, I came to realize that I like it.

Maybe you could give it another chance or two.