Welcome to Eclim

Overview

The primary goal of eclim is to bring Eclipse functionality to the Vim editor. The initial goal was to provide Eclipse’s java functionality in vim, but support for various other languages (c/c++, php, python, ruby, css, html, xml, etc.) have been added and several more are planned.

Eclim is less of an application and more of an integration of two great projects. The first, Vim, is arguably one of the best text editors in existence. The second, Eclipse, provides many great tools for development in various languages. Each provides many features that can increase developer productivity, but both still leave something to be desired. Vim lacks native Java support and many of the advanced features available in Eclipse. Eclipse, on the other hand, still requires the use of the mouse for many things, and when compared to Vim, provides a less than ideal interface for editing text.

That is where eclim comes into play. Instead of trying to write an IDE in Vim or a Vim editor in Eclipse, eclim provides an Eclipse plug-in that exposes Eclipse features through a server interface, and a set of Vim plug-ins that communicate with Eclipse over that interface. This functionality can be leveraged in three primary ways, as illustrated below.

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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).

Emacs Users

Development of an emacs client for eclim has been started over on github.

License

Eclim is released under the GPLv3.

News

2012-04-22

Eclim 1.7.4 is now available.

This is a bug fix release.

2012-03-18

Eclim 1.7.3 is now available.

This version fixes numerious small bugs and adds a handful of small features.

Warning

Non vim users (emacs-eclim, subclim, etc.): The underlying command response format for eclim has changed, which means that any project relying on the old format isn’t going to work. So if you are installing eclim for use with a client other than vim, then be sure to check with the client project to see if it has been updated for eclim 1.7.3 or later.

2011-09-10

Eclim 1.7.2 is now available.

This version fixes running the installer with java 7 as well as several other small bug fixes and improvements.

I’d also like to announce the #eclim channel on freenode.

2011-07-02

Eclim 1.7.1 is now available.

This is a bug fix release.

2011-06-26

Eclim 1.7.0 is now available.

The most notable changes are:

• Eclim has been upgraded to support Eclipse 3.7 (Indigo).

  Note

  Eclim now requires Eclipse 3.7.

2011-04-16

Eclim 1.6.3 is now available.

This is primarily a bug fix release.

2011-02-26

Eclim 1.6.2 is now available.

This is mostly a bug fix release, but please note that a handful of vim features have been broken out into separate projects and are no longer shipped with eclim.

2010-10-23

Eclim 1.6.1 is now available.

This is mostly a bug fix release with a few minor features tossed in.

2010-08-01

Eclim 1.6.0 is now available.

The most notable changes are:

• Eclim has been upgraded to support Eclipse 3.6 (Helios).

  Note

  Eclim now requires Eclipse 3.6.

2010-06-26

Eclim 1.5.8 is now available.

This is a bug fix release for the installer as well as some php and ruby features.

2010-06-20

Eclim 1.5.7 is now available.

The main focus of this release is bug fixes and improving the installer.

2010-03-06

Eclim 1.5.6 is now available.

2010-02-22

Eclim 1.5.5 is now available.

This is a bug fix release for the eclim installer.

2009-12-18

Eclim 1.5.4 is now available.

This is primarily a bug fix release for OSX users.

2009-12-12

Eclim 1.5.3 is now available.

2009-08-30

Eclim 1.5.2 is now available.

2009-07-18

Eclim 1.5.1 is now available.

This is primarily a bug fix release

2009-07-12

Eclim 1.5.0 is now available.

The most notable changes are:

• Eclim has been upgraded to support Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo).

  Note

  Eclim now requires Eclipse 3.5.

• Ruby support has been added using the eclipse dltk.

2009-06-14

Eclim 1.4.9 is now available.

This is primarily a bug fix release, with a few refinements.

2009-05-30

Eclim 1.4.8 is now available.

This is primarily a bug fix release with a few enhancements.

2009-05-02

Eclim 1.4.7 is now available.

This is a bug fix release which resolves an installation on unix based operating systems.

2009-05-02

Eclim 1.4.6 is now available.

The major highlight of this release is support for c/c++ using the eclipse cdt plugin.

2009-04-04

Eclim 1.4.5 is now available.

This is primarily a bug fix release.

2009-01-10

Eclim 1.4.4 is now available.

Highlights of this release include:

• re-enabled php support
• added ability to run eclimd inside of eclipse gui
• added support for embedding gvim in eclipse

2008-11-15

Eclim 1.4.3 is now available.

This release focuses on updating the installer to support ganymede’s p2 for upgrading / installing external dependencies and adding additional python support.

2008-09-30

Eclim 1.4.2 is now available.

This is primary a bug fix release.

2008-08-24

Eclim 1.4.1 is now available.

This is primary a bug fix release, but there are some new features included as well.

2008-07-27

Eclim 1.4.0 is now available.

Please note that eclim now requires the latest version of eclipse (Ganymede, 3.4.x).

Also note that the eclipse pdt plugin which serves as the base for eclim’s php support has not yet been released for the latest version of eclipse. For this reason php support has been temporarily removed from this release and will hopefully return soon after the pdt team release a Ganymede (3.4) compatible version.

Another major change worth noting, is that eclim is now licensed under the GPLv3. This was done to give eclim the freedom to integrate with other GPL projects in the future.

2008-03-11

Eclim 1.3.5 is now available.

You can view the release notes for more info.

2008-02-05

Eclim 1.3.4 is now available.

This release fixes a few minor bugs, improves the installer to account for eclipse installs with per user plugin locations, and adds php support.

2007-12-15

Eclim 1.3.3 is now available.

This release fixes some installer issues. If you have already installed 1.3.2, then there is no need to upgrade to 1.3.3.

2007-12-04

Eclim 1.3.2 is now available.

2007-07-13

Eclim 1.3.1 is now available.

This is only a bug fix release.

2007-07-01

Eclim 1.3.0 is now available.

The most notable changes are:

• Eclim has been upgraded to support Eclipse 3.3.

  Note

  Eclim now requires Eclipse 3.3 and JDK 1.5.

• A new graphical installer built on the formic installer framework.

• New functionality based on and requiring the eclipse wst.

• Many more changes.