On Wednesday, September 08, 2010 08:26:33 pm Ven Tadipatri wrote: > After some difficulties I had with my c++ IDE I decided to switch to > using vi. I have a lot to learn, but already I'm really impressed by > the possibilities of navigation. It offers so much more than the > standard arrow keys and page up/page down/home/end keys in a standard > IDE: > - you can mark a point in the code and go to it > - ctrl I and O allow you to navigate back and forth > - / and f allow you to find > - w and b move you back and forth across words and with numbers you > can navigate across multiple words > - you can fold parts of the code and navigate across the folds > - it's integrated fully with the shell itself, so you can open up a > new window with ctrl+w, and execute whatever commands you want. > -I'm sure there's lots more, this is just from a first glance what > struck me as far superior to navigation I see in most editors. > > There are still difficulties I'm trying to get over, like navigating > across multiple files and autocompletion, but I think I'm definitely > on the right track in switching to vi from an IDE like Eclipse or > Netbeans. > Eclipse works well for java, but when I tried using it for C++, I > got so frustrated with it, despite the fancy graphical interface, I > wanted an editor with good code navigation. In fact, oddly enough, the > fact that most IDE's have a graphical interfaces actually causes more > problems. Whereas in VI, a few keystrokes can get you to where you > want (granted there's a learning curve), in an IDE, there's a dialog > that pops up, you're restricted to the buttons and textboxes they give > you, plus there's the extra GUI load time. And it's the customization > feature of vi that makes it really powerful. You can make the > shortcuts you want, and it's all self-contained within a single > .vimrc. There's no digging through Eclipse plugin configuration files. > If anyone can point me to good tutorials for using VIM as an > effective IDE (for C++ specifically), I would greatly appreciate it. > There's so many subtle things about VIM I really don't know where to > go to learn more about using it effectively. > > Thanks, > Ven Check this plugin for C++ http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=213. Here is VIM wiki for code completion in C++ http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/C%2B%2B_code_completion. If using Linux with KDE, you can also try kdevelop editor. Check Vim Wiki for lots of trips and tricks http://vim.runpaint.org/ and I found this website really very good for learning Vim http://vim.runpaint.org/
For navigating across multiple files you can either use "buffers" or firefox like tabs. For using tabs like you do in firefox put this in .vimrc (Linux) or _vimrc (windows): nmap <C-tab> :tabnext<CR> nmap <C-S-tab> :tabprevious<CR> map <C-S-tab> :tabprevious<CR> map <C-tab> :tabnext<CR> imap <C-S-tab> <Esc>:tabprevious<CR>i imap <C-tab> <Esc>:tabnext<CR>i nmap <C-t> :tabnew<CR> imap <C-t> <Esc>:tabnew<CR> Thanks Vivek Bhat -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
