Comments on: Building a Java dev environment with Eclim and Vim on OSX

By: AK

AK — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 19:38:38 +0000

Can’t I use Vim+eclim without Eclipse. I want to avoid Eclipse for its bulk and clutter. Or is there a way I can get a setup like Eclim without having actually to install Eclipse? As in using some other vim plugins/scripts etc?

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 05:43:22 +0000

And, is there a quick way without going to eclipse to create the project folder? I never really realized what the structure contained.

By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:49:43 +0000

@Gus: I would recommend trying a :SuperTabHelp command, which should list all the available completion types and add the one you’re looking for to the g:SuperTabDefaultCompletionTypeDiscovery variable.

By: Gus

Gus — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 22:54:21 +0000

Thanks for the awesome post!

However I’m facing a problem that I can’t figure out what’s wrong.

I used some of your settings on my vimrc file to switch from Ctrl+x-Ctrl+u to Tab, it works… but the problem is that it doesn’t really work exactly the same way, when I use Ctrl+x-Ctrl-u I get more specific details of the methods I could use, such as return type, arguments, method signature. But with the tab feature it only shows up the methods name. do you have any idea what I am doing wrong? is there any other settings that I should set to make it work exactly the same?

vimrc settings:

” Supertab settings
” supertab + eclim == java win
let g:SuperTabDefaultCompletionTypeDiscovery = [
\ “&completefunc:”,
\ “&omnifunc:”,
\ ]
let g:SuperTabLongestHighlight = 1

Thanks,

Gus

By: codekiln

codekiln — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:28:48 +0000

lee,
we use all the same programs – and, it seems, for a lot of the same reasons. amazing. thank you for this article.

By: Ralph

Ralph — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:48:55 +0000

problem solved. I added ‘filetype plugin on’ to my .vimrc

By: Ralph

Ralph — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:41:39 +0000

Lee,
Thanks for this – it worked great. I am using the latest Eclipse (3.5). Also, I already have MacVim installed so I went that route.
One issue I am having is enabling the completion. When I type Ctr-X,Ctr-U, I get the the following error:
Option “completefunc” is not set
I have set completefunc but to no avail. Do you know how to resolve this?

Thanks,
Ralph

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:16:30 +0000

@Sayandev,
According to the eclim mailing list, it looks like Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo) isn’t supported by Eclim except in the git repo so far.

By: Sayandev Mukherjee

Sayandev Mukherjee — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:52:45 +0000

Sorry, I meant “compilation with ant” not “complication with ant”. For your reference, my ant command was the following:

../apache-ant-1.7.1/bin/ant -Declipse.home=/Applications/Eclipse/ -Dplugins=ant,jdt,cdt

I have the Galileo Eclipse build on Leopard.

By: Sayandev Mukherjee

Sayandev Mukherjee — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:49:26 +0000

Lee, I was trying to follow your instructions but the complication with ant fails with the following:

BUILD FAILED
/Users/sayan/eclim_1.4.9/build.xml:197: The following error occurred while executing this line:
/Users/sayan/eclim_1.4.9/build.xml:340: Failure:

Failed to compile eclim plugin ‘ant’.
Check that your eclipse install has the necessary dependencies,
or only compile eclim with the features that your eclipse version
supports.

For example:

$ ant -Dplugins=ant,jdt

Am I doing something wrong? Any help appreciated!