Turn your vim into a bash IDE
Vim editor of late has been going thro many improvments. When i started programming initially it was on an age old solaris box using a vi editor which wouldnt allow me to use the arrow keys. I had to use the h,j,k,i(?? i forgot!) keys to move around the screen. If i used the arrow keys it would insert new lines with either the characeters "A" or "B". It was disgusting initially but later i got used to it. Then i started programming on a linux flavor of vi and i found that i could actually use the arrow keys to move around the screen. Phew.. what an improvement. I gradually got hooked on to the vi editor not because of the features it offered but because of its simplicity in doing things. It wasnt a heavyweight application and it didnt do a lot of things. But it just did what i wanted.. Edit the code. And i didnt have to move my hands from the key board to do things that i wanted. Amazing.
Then things evolved.. something called vim came along with new features.. I could use syntax highlighting, code formatting etc.. Very nice.
Then there came gVim which kind of gave a notepad like interface. Infact i saw a demo where even code completion was becoming a part of the feature of vim. Hmm... interesting.. But only thing that attracts me to vi still is its simplicity in doing stuff.
I came across a plugin today for vim which allows your vim to turn into a bash IDE. It actually helps people who do shell scripting a lot. Well.. i am not sure how many purists would go ahead and use it. But considering that there are not many tools out there which give you shell scripting support, i guess this is another good nice to have plugin.
I read about it over here. Take a look at it and see it work for yourself.
