Vim as an Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing any kind of text very efficient. It is included as "vi" with most UNIX systems and with Apple OS X.

Vim is rock stable and is continuously being developed to become even better. Among its features are:

• persistent, multi-level undo tree
• extensive plugin system
• support for hundreds of programming languages and file formats
• powerful search and replace
• integrates with many tools

Installation

git clone https://github.com/joergklein/vim.git ~/.vim

Set a link for .vimrc

ln -s .vim/vimrc ~/.vimrc