Hello Aaron,
Now, if you want vim to write makefiles and things for you, that's another story. I have a feeling this is what you want - a step to integrate "build these files".
No. I was looking into build systems for that. I'm very disappointed by what's on offer though. I given Boost.build V2 a shot, but it is over-complex. Or at least the documentation isn't good enough. I also tried SCons. It seems alot more intuitive. But according to http://www.gamesfromwithin.com/articles/0509/000100.html it is rather slow (if that article is to be trusted). Jam is dead, but FTJam seems to be alive. I think I'll try that next (but first check to see if they have some decent docs).
Things like Eclipse / Visual Studio have a "files listing" which is used to know which files to compile / embed / whatever. make does this just fine, and better, IMO, but requires you to write a Makefile.
I have written makefiles in the past. However, I'd like to be able to build my projects on several platforms. From what I hear the autotools require you to read tons and tons of documentation.
I guess I could answer better if you defined what an IDE is to you. I get mixed answers on this when I ask people. In short: you are trying to use vim like tools you are used to. It doesn't work that way. vim is vim. It is not Eclipse.
I just used "IDE" to describe what I was thinking of. What I mean exactly is that I simply want to have all those plugins nicely integrated with keys mapped to them for easy access. As soon as I got that (and found a decent build system), I'll be perfectly satisfied :) Regards, Brecht
