Except for the lack a of a decent pager and the ability to run shell or debugger. It seems pretty nifty.

vim is an editor, not an IDE. However, there's nothing stopping anyone from integrating vim into an IDE, and that's what Bram Moolenaar, vim's author, is currently doing by way of Agide. It only posesses vim and gdb right now, no Perl debugger support, but it's supposedly very easy to integrate new tools. I've idly considered attempting that, but as I almost never use an interactive debugger I haven't bothered.

What do you mean by pager?

Makeshifts last the longest.

In reply to Re: Environments extended with embeded Perl: are they for real? (vim+debugger) by Aristotle
in thread Environments extended with embeded Perl: are they for real? by stefp

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