The power of Eclipse in your favorite editor.
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 on Windows and Unix 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.
You can follow the eclim install guide which will walk you through downloading and installing eclim.
After you've installed eclim, you can refer to the getting started page which will walk you through creating your first project.
If at any time you have any questions or feedback, feel free to post to one of the eclim mailing lists:
If you would like to get help or ask questions on IRC, then feel free to join #eclim on freenode.net. Please note that I (Eric Van Dewoestine, ervandew on irc) try to stay in the channel as much as possible, but I might not be available to answer questions immediately. It's also worth noting that I live in California, so if you are in Europe, Asia, or some other timezone whose normal waking hours don't overlap well with mine, then you may be better off getting help using one of the mailing lists above.
If you've found a bug please report the issue to either the eclim-dev mailing list or create a new issue on eclim's github issue tracker.
When reporting a bug, please include the following information:
A new version of eclim is now available with support for Eclipse 4.6 (Neon).
A new version of eclim is now available with support for Eclipse 4.5 (Mars).
The latest version of eclim is now available with scala support re-enabled, new groovy support, java debugging support, many bug fixes, and more.
Eclim has finally been released with Eclipse Luna support. Please note however that scala support is disabled in this release. I tried waiting for a final release of ScalaIDE 4.0.0 for Luna, but I don't want to hold up the rest of eclim any longer. If you want to use eclim's scala support, you'll need to install the ScalaIDE 4.0.0 milestone and build eclim from the master git branch.
Eclim has been updated to fix an issue on Windows that could prevent many features from working.
This release includes many bug fixes and refinements as well as a rewrite of eclim's python support to utilize pydev instead of rope.
Warning
Any exiting eclim python projects you have should be re-created with the new
python nature:
:ProjectCreate /path/to/project -n python
This release fixes the extraction of the necessary vim files when installing scala support.
The previous eclim installer for Kepler was still pointing at the Juno update site. This release remedies that.
The focus of this release is to bring eclim fully up to date with Eclipse Kepler support. The installer for eclim 2.3.0 now requires that you install against Kepler.
This is primarily a bug fix release with a few new features. Unless some critical error is found, this will be the last release targeting Juno. The next release will likely target Kepler though this release should work fine on Kepler as well, with the exception of scala support which has not been tested. Indigo support will continue but will likely end with the release of Luna, possibly sooner.
Eclim has been updated to support the Android Development Toolkit version 22.0.0, scala is now supported for both Juno and Indigo, and there are a few other improvements and many bug fixes.