How can I make VIM a full fledged IDE

Question

How could I make VIM a full fledged IDE by using different supported plugins for YUI, JQuery and git integration etc.

Answer 1

First of set your $HOME/.vimrc to follow specific pattern. Mine is something like this:

" (sw)shiftwidth: how many columns text is indented with reindent operations
" (sts)softtabstop: how many columns vim uses when you hit tab
" (ts)tabstop: how many columns a tab counts for
set ts=4 sw=4 sts=2

" expandtab: appropriate number of spaces in insert mode
set expandtab

" theme and colors
set t_Co=256
colorscheme desert

" Prevents keeping of backup after overwriting the file
set nobk

" To see line numbers on the left
set number

" autocomplete parenthesis, brackets and braces
inoremap ( ()<Left>
inoremap [ []<Left>
inoremap { {}<Left>

" Syntax highlighting on
syntax on

" share windows clipboard
set clipboard+=unnamed

" Hightlight the curent column
set cursorcolumn

" Hightlight the current line
set cursorline

I recommend going through this. Some of the scripts that I recommend are:

NerdTREE

taglist(Requires exuberant-ctags)

bufexplorer

snipMate

As for your personal needs. You should search for suitable script here and follow instructions.

Answer 2

Or, run vim inside of pida.