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Discussion on: Who said that VIM cannot compete with IDEs?

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Grigor Bezirganyan

I use java only for android, and I think it will be a bit masochistic to use vim for it :) but other than that, vim is the only way to go for me. Recently I tried to use vim plugin for atom, I though it would bring the best parts from two worlds, but it was the opposite. So I went back to natural vim.

I think that if configured properly, after vim you cannot go back to anything other. And yes, hand movement is minimal with vim, you don't even need the arrow keys :)

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Jan van Brügge

I works quite well actually. I use LanguageClient-vim and the Java Language server. It can read my gradle build file and I get autocomplete, errors and similar. Here are my dotfiles if you are interested in the setup

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Grigor Bezirganyan

Really? Cool :) I will give it a try. And I think I will steal some of your dotfiles :)