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 (php, python, css, html, xml, etc.) have been added and several mor
"vile retains the "finger-feel", if you will, of vi, while adding the multiple buffer and multiple window features of emacs and other editors. It is definitely not a vi clone, in that some substantial stuff is missing, and the screen doesn't look quite the same. The things that you tend to type over and over probably work. Things done less frequently, like configuring a startup file, are somewhat (or very, depending on how ambitious you are) different. But what matters most is that one's "muscle memory" does the right thing to the text in front of you, and that is what vile tries to do for vi users."
I feel the two editors are complementary, rather than antagonistic. They have a very different "look and feel", but that's not a reason for choosing one over the other. They were designed for different jobs, and I use both of them, depending on the job.
"shoot 'em up '80s style arcade game. You pilot your "vi"per craft through core memory, rescuing lost .swp files, avoiding OS defenses, and wiping out those memory hogging emacs processes."
The bvi is a display-oriented editor for binary files, based on the vi texteditor. If you are familiar with vi, just start the editor and begin to edit! A bmore program is also included in the package.