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If you predominantly code in Java, you are better off working in Eclipse, and using some plugin for whatever happens to be your favorite editor.

I used to do a lot of Java in the past, and I have used eclipse and vim. Java in plain Vim is a huge PITA - auto complete, generating dummy getter setter, refactoring, fixing imports, checking errors without leaving the ide etc etc. I haphazardly fixed a couple of them using vim plugins and custom keybindings; and then I found eclim, which uses eclipse as a server and provides the functionality in Vim.



eclim would be a better fit if i am going to use emacs as my do-everything IDE. I found that eclim has even a connector for emacs as it has for vim.




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