The power of Eclipse in your favorite editor.

What is it?¶

Eclim provides the ability to access Eclipse code editing features (code completion, searching, code validation, and many more) via the command line or a local network connection, allowing those features to be integrated with your favorite editor. Eclim provides an integration with Vim, but third party clients have been created to add eclim support to other editors as well (emacs, sublime text 2, textmate).

There are three primary usage scenarios in which eclim is designed to be used:

The first scenario is for those for which vim is their primary editing interface. In this scenario you run a headless instance of eclipse which all vim instances can then communicate with to provide the various eclipse features. The second scenario is for those who prefer using vim as their main interface, but frequently end up jumping back to eclipse for any features not provided by eclim. In this case you can run the eclim server inside of the eclipse gui and then interact with it via external vim instances just like the first scenario. The last scenario is for those who wish to use the eclipse interface full time, but want to use gvim as an embedded eclipse editor. Just like the previous use case, the eclim server is run inside of the eclipse gui and the embedded gvim will interact with it just like external vim instances would. This feature is only support Linux systems (where gvim is compiled with the gtk gui). Note Please be aware that the embedded vim does not behave like a standard eclipse editor. It’s a separate program (vim) embedded into eclipse, so eclipse features are provided by eclim’s vim plugins and not the usual eclipse key bindings, context menus, etc. For those that just want vim like key bindings in their eclipse editors, vrapper is an excellent alternative which provides exactly that.

Eclim is released under the GPLv3.