
At that time, it had a bad bug which froze the interface when using cetain versions of GTK+. My first use of Eclipse was during the 2.1 era. I’d been hearing a lot about Eclipse so I decided to try it. But I don’t have the funds to pay for a license, so I looked for the next best thing. I was hooked! IntelliJ remains my favourite IDE, even more than Eclipse. Then, one of my colleagues (Michel, it’s all your fault!) introduced me to IntelliJ IDEA. But I was still using Vim periodically because some editing was easier in Vim than in Netbeans. Then, someone explained to me that Forte was based on Netbeans. Vim has always been a great development tool, but with the complexity of Java development nowadays, I’ve found that IDE’s are no longer candy: they have become a necessity.


I’ve been a Vim user for the longest time. I’ve been using it for a few weeks and in this article, I will be reviewing a few of the features that make it such a wonderful tool.
