Vim as Visual Studio IDE

Question

I have spent lot of time doing research on VIM. I am Windows guy since last 6 yrs and was using VS. Now started working on Linux. I want to make VIM as close as possible to

Answer 1

You can use the following script, Trinity.
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2347
It will require 3 more scripts, and Vim will look like an IDE. The TagList at left, a file exporer (NERDTree) at right, and Source Explorer at bottom.

Also, you can find some very useful blog entries at
http://kevin-berridge.blogspot.com/search/label/vim
The author, Kevin, explains how to compile solutions form inside Vim. He also shows interfacing and jumping between them which is very useful too.

Furhermore, there is the script vim-visual-studio which can be found at
http://code.google.com/p/vim-visual-studio/ This script is using Python extension. I have Python 2.5 installed in Windows. I am using Gvim 7.2 which is compiled with Python 2.4. So, I have replaced the executables of Gvim as explained here:
http://www.gooli.org/blog/gvim-72-with-python-2526-support-windows-binaries/
So, Gvim became compatible with Python 2.5 and raised no problems. Also, a menu entry "Visual Studio" has appeared as expected. It connects to Visual Studio itself, and it works perfectly. It does not just compiles a file, it can compile a solution containing more than one project as in Visual Studio. You can even use the Vim's 'quickfix' feature. Hope this helps.