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Personally, Ive never tried to make Vim my IDE on Linux. Just Vim as my editor, make as my "builder" and gdb as my debugger. Effectively, bash was my IDE.

I know on the older spectrum of the audience here, but that is an effective workflow for me. But, as a nearly 40 yr old, the command-line is very natural to me. I actually get irritated when I have reach for a mouse to complete an action.

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I agree. Vim with ctags and gdb is a pretty performant workflow. I just turned 40. So maybe it is context. I do like vscode though. Its pretty snappy and has good keyboard shortcuts so I don't have to touch the rodent.

You know how in GDB you can see the lines you are working on? Really I just want that to have color, like I do in vim. We don't like in 1970 anymore. We have color. The other thing I want is that while editing I can add break point.

Maybe I'm too young (28), but how I read your and the parent's comment is "My workflow has been working fine, why improve it?" which sounds weird to me. There's always room for improvement.

Have you tried ConqueGDB? It lets you start the GDB from within your vim session and uses your vim buffers to show the current file. I recently started using it and didn't really get into familiarizing with it yet, but it seems to integrate the gdb quite well. I am uncertain whether or not you can set breakpoints within the code though.

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