Notepad++ for C, Idle for Python. I am moving up to vim for my next project probably

I am not ready to move to nosebleeds yet

I'm actually considering jumping ship from vim to eclipse because I've been playing with C++ and now typescript where I want some "intellisense" type functionailty without wrestling with vim plugins... is this crazy talk? If theres a vim plugin for eclipse for the bare bones vim movement then it might have to be done.

the only crazy talk is going to eclipse over clion.

And yes, there are vim plugins for all the major ide's.

I only use software that respects my freedom

Hm, didn't know CLion was a thing - I use JetBrains' AppCode for heavier C/C++ stuff, which does that really well with great symbol recognition etc (albeit with imperfect C++11 support). Work pays for it though.

yes, you will want to look at:

ctags
cscope
tagbar (for viewing structure of file)

and for as you type autocompletion either neocomplete or youcompleteme.

i've just completed setting this up for ruby and js, and it took me quite a while, but you may have better luck with C/C++ stuff. anyway, expect to do some work setting up the plugins and getting it all working how you like it, but once it's all done, you have 90% (or more) of the IDE goodness and you're still in vim, and it's all customized how you like.

haha, yes it's crazy talk?

I'm using ctags with supertab for an okayish level of autocompletion. Thanks for the other plugin tips, they look like they'd help a lot with large unfamiliar files.

I'm just kind of fatigued with vim plugins. Like you mention two autocomplete plugins but last night I was looking into another, omnicomplete, because it works with another plugin to get typescript autocomplete support.

I don't know vimscript so I never know how to fix conflicts and can barely remap keys (usually copy pasting mystery code from blog posts and stackoverflow). Maybe its thinking the grass is greener on the other side kind of thing, but it seems to me like these IDE guys just have everything work out of the box in exchange for less customizability (which I don't/can't use in vim anyway).

Or you can just download emacs and have an amazing built-in C editor with Cedit... or install Helm and add in some evil-mode for vim emulation and you have something that is far superior to an IDE. Oh right, you also get emacs on top of it.

yeah, everything working out of the box is pretty nice. for most people it's the more sane choice. plus most of the big ones now have plugins, or come with, vim keymaps so you can get hjkl and other vim basics that capitalize on your vim muscle memory. sounds like that might be the best way to go for you.

Cloud9 down for two hours now fml

Pycharm is also great for ES6!

Loving pycharm

For my fellow vimers - at work we have a TIL website where we micro blog whatever we learned that day and we have a channel just for vim. There's some little nuggets of gold in there. https://til.hashrocket.com/vim

Keep finding awesome new features in PyCharm. Going strong with Atom for everything else.

Can't figure out how to manually install some atom packages at work. Firewall blocking apm/npm git requests. Tried changing settings for git but it wasn't very effective. Really like having Script to quickly run changes and see results.

They all suck. The plugin surround.vim should be standard, but none of these vim plugins support it or provide a way to load vim scripts. Plus little things like zz, H, M, L, never work right. Using the vim plugins will just make you mad if you're an actual vim user.

IntelliJ for me. PhpStorm has been awesome after working with this build and that build of Eclipse, trying to get things working.

Are you using it on Mac or Windows? Loading remote repo? Looking for sort of a cliff notes version of what you're doing on it. My work computer recently got upgraded with an ssd. It eliminated some of the weird lag but not all of it (we use PHP Storm).

I've been using komodo for a long time.
They just came out with a new version that supports most of the javascript frameworks.

Vim for server admin and quick edits.
Atom for everything else.