I'm just starting to learn about vim plug-ins.  After studying some of these
vim scripts I ran across in-line perl, python and this strange language
Ruby.  I asked on the vim / vim.org list which of those languages I should
learn (I only have so many neurons) and almost %100 of the responses were in
glowing favor of Ruby.  So now I'm learning Ruby and I have already made it
my mistress (I'm still married to C++, the old ball and chain).

I know there is much work being done in the Vim community to make Vim more
IDE like.  To answer your question properly I would need to do some research
but work keeps we much too busy for that.  I can however give you some
leads:

http://www.vim.org/scripts.php               <--- repository of vim scripts
http://www.vim.org/script.php?script_id=501  <--- ex. beta of some ruby code
that does auto method/member completion
:help ruby                                   <--- vim command to give
instructions on how vim interfaces with ruby

Hope that helps,
	-Mike Garrriss

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Curt Hibbs [mailto:curt / hibbs.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 8:57 AM
> To: ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org
> Subject: Re: The coolest thing since sliced bread
> 
> 
> Garriss, Michael wrote:
> >
> > I would be nice to be able to "plug-in" the existing vim 
> into FreeRIDE.
> > Many of the features you mentioned have already been 
> implemented as vim
> > plug-ins (some written in RUBY!) and are not the execlusive 
> advatanages of
> > IDE's over "editors".  I've handled CVS from vim for a long time.
> 
> If its not too much to ask, can you tell me what features have been
> implemented in Ruby for Vim? If its something we want for FreeRIDE and
> source code is available in Ruby, I'm all for "borrowing" instead of
> "building".
> 
> Thanks,
> Curt
> 
>