On: Ask HN: What Vim Plugins do you use?

[amethyst]

Regarding use of Vim and Eclipse, the Vrapper project has a good enough emulation of Vi in Eclipse, enough so that I've been able to use it without hitting many limitations in my daily use.

http://vrapper.sourceforge.net/home/

[dakrone → amethyst]

Why not use Eclim[1] instead, since it allows you to embed an actual vim editor into Eclipse if desired and get all of Vim's features?

[1]: http://eclim.org

[vietor → dakrone]

I'm currently using Vrapper, and it's been a year or two since I tried Eclim. But as I recall, it's a question of which is primary.

With Eclim you get all of vim, as you say, but you lose a bit of the native eclipse editor functionality.

With Vrapper you get all of eclipse, and a subset of the core vim commands. It's not vim, but you get to keep all of the features of the native eclipse editor.