Vim setup

Here is my Vim setup information for reference

in .vimrc or _vimrc, add at the beginning:

set langmenu=en_US.ISO_8859-1
set gfn=Bitstream_Vera_Sans_Mono:h9:cANSI
colorscheme oceandeep

First line is to avoid menus in French.
The font (you can find here) is simply the best programmer's font.
oceandeep mode can be found here .

Vim setup

Here is my Vim setup information for reference

in .vimrc or _vimrc, add at the beginning:

set langmenu=en_US.ISO_8859-1
set gfn=Bitstream_Vera_Sans_Mono:h9:cANSI
colorscheme oceandeep

First line is to avoid menus in French.
The font (you can find here) is simply the best programmer's font.
oceandeep mode can be found here .

Why Eclipse Is Better

Initially I adopted Eclipse instead of Emacs because it was more powerful to search code, and it allowed refactoring. I regularly tried other IDEs but always end up back to Eclipse, even though there has been less big improvements in Eclipse in the past years (but lots of small ones).

I just saw today that Eclipse allowed programmatic refactoring. Now that's something quite amazing, and I don't think other IDEs do that yet. Someone even had fun writing an Eclipse extension in Scala to add a particular kind of refactoring to Eclipse.