Question

I wish to setup vim as C++ IDE so I can do all work from it.

I’m using these plugins for vim:

• Clang complete – accurate completion
• nerdtree – browse files
• snipmate – insert snippets
• AutoComplPop – omni-completion
• buffergator – buffer management
• vim-powerline – nice statusbar
• vundle – to manage plugins

But I lack things like Jump to definition and compiling multiple files in one executable, project view…

I’m using

nmap <F8> :w % <bar> :!g++ -W -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -std=c++11 % -o %:t:r<CR> <bar> :!./%:t:r<CR>

to compile current file, but it won’t work if there are multiple file that create one executable.

I know I could just use eclipse, netbeans, code::blocks and such, but I really like vim… If such thing as vim ide isn’t possible do I have to learn GNU build system or some other method?

Any advice is welcome.

Answer 1

You need to create a makefile which handles the build process.

Then from vim just run :make, it will run the build and pop all errors in quickfix window where you can navigate and jump to error locations.