Vim for Java Development

A skeleton of Vim for Java Development with Gradle. This is shell-oriented thing, probably not of your taste. If you prefer doing Java development mostly in terminal/shell, you will feel right at home. I use GNU Bash. You may make any adjustment in classpath.sh and source classpath.sh command below if you use other shells (tcsh, zsh, ksh, /etc).

License

I don't take credit for all Vim plugins described here. I only put them in one place and explain what you can do to use them effectively for Java development. See the website of all plugins here to know the license.

Here's How

• You have Gradle installed and run correctly, right?

• Using Vim for all development tasks is cool, but even cooler if you use Pathogen. If you don't, well, you should...

• Put all these plugins in $HOME/.vim/bundle just as Pathogen told you (see also $HOME/.vim/vimrc below):

  • indentLine
  • vim-gradle
  • javacomplete
  • syntastic
  • tagbar
  • nerdtree
  • vim-colorschemes - life isn't beautiful without color :p
  • vim-smartusline

• Put all of the Gradle dependencies into build.gradle then issue gradle build. That way, all of dependencies will be downloaded in $HOME/.gradle. See build.gradle file for example, or if you want, you may open Dependency Management chapter in Gradle manual.

• Issue command gradle copyToLib to copy all of the dependencies into lib dir

• Issue command source classpath.sh

• gvim, and you are on your way.

• Use :TagbarOpen if you want to open tagbar for active Java source code

• You may use Omni Completion also, like import org.<C-X><C-O>. When I say <C-X>, it means you press Ctrl with X.

$HOME/.vim/vimrc

execute pathogen#infect()

set nocompatible
syntax on
filetype plugin indent on
set ofu=syntaxcomplete#Complete

if has("gui_running")
  colorscheme zenburn
else
  colorscheme slate
endif

set smartindent
set tabstop=2
set shiftwidth=2
set expandtab
set cursorline

" Default Colors for CursorLine
highlight  CursorLine ctermbg=Yellow ctermfg=None

" Change Color when entering Insert Mode
autocmd InsertEnter * highlight  CursorLine ctermbg=Darkgray ctermfg=Red

" Revert Color to default when leaving Insert Mode
autocmd InsertLeave * highlight  CursorLine ctermbg=Yellow ctermfg=None

autocmd vimenter * NERDTree
autocmd vimenter * if !argc() | NERDTree | endif
autocmd bufenter * if (winnr("$") == 1 && exists("b:NERDTreeType") && b:NERDTreeType == "primary") | q | endif

let g:NERDTreeDirArrows=0
let g:NERDTreeWinSize = 15

au BufRead,BufNewFile *.gradle set filetype=groovy

let g:cssColorVimDoNotMessMyUpdatetime = 1
set guifont=Liberation\ Mono\ 11

set number
set numberwidth=4
set cpoptions+=n
highlight LineNr term=bold cterm=NONE ctermfg=DarkGrey ctermbg=NONE gui=NONE guifg=DarkGrey guibg=NONE

set grepprg=grep\ -nH\ $*
let g:tex_flavour = "latex"

set foldmethod=indent
set foldnestmax=2

" vertical line indentation
let g:indentLine_color_term = 239
let g:indentLine_color_gui = '#09AA08'
" let g:indentLine_color_gui = '#A4AAAA'
let g:indentLine_char = '│'

hi Modified guifg=black guibg=#FFA500
set statusline=%2.2n\ %t\ %h%#Modified#%m%r%*%=%l/%L\ %2c\ %P
let g:smartusline_string_to_highlight = '%2.2n %t %h'

au BufNewFile,BufRead *.groovy  setf groovy 
au BufNewFile,BufRead *.gradle  setf groovy 

if has("autocmd") 
  autocmd Filetype java setlocal omnifunc=javacomplete#Complete 
endif 

setlocal completefunc=javacomplete#CompleteParamsInfo 

Screenshots?

See here if you are difficult to be convinced :p

Author

Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.

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