Oh God, there's actually a thing that runs a headless Eclipse IDE and wires vim up to it e.g. for code completion eclim.org/
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It's like the worst of all possible worlds (reminds me of using CVS on Windows... :)
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@frabcus You *loved* CVS (when compared with VSS :-)
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@dsilverstone oh I did! just being wry about TortoiseCVS being similarly frankensteinian to Eclim! Thank you for introducing me to CVS :-)
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Replying to @frabcus
@frabcus I'd say it was my pleasure, but being cvs I'm unsure if pleasure is quite the right word :-)

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Replying to @dsilverstone
@dsilverstone I think TortoiseCVS built the ecosystem enough, that then Subversion and Git far more successful on Windows than otherwise
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@dsilverstone I don't know *how* much, but I think strategically important for Github being adopted more broadly than open source langs
Replying to @dsilverstone
@dsilverstone so definitely a pleasure :)