Converting from Eclipse PDT to Vim [closed]

Question

I truly love VIM - it's one of only a handful of applications I've every come across that make you feel warm and fuzzy inside. However, for PHP development, I still use PDT Eclipse although I would love to switch.

The reason I can't quite at the moment is the CTRL+SPACE code-assist functionality that I rely on so much - it's so useful, especially when type hinting, or using PHPDoc variable comment blocks.

I know there are cool plugins for VIM out there that can probably replicate this functionality and then some - but what are they?

Answer 1

Vim has OmniCompletion built in, you should add this to your .vimrc:

filetype plugin on
au FileType php set omnifunc=phpcomplete#CompletePHP

In addition I recommend you this plugins:

• VTreeExplorer
• snippetsEmu

and also take a look to this article about php debugging in Vim, and this paper, it has many useful tips for using Vim in PHP Development.