In this post, I give an overview of my current Vim [1] setup. I use Vim as my main editor for text files, among them also code and especially Scala [2] code. The post introduces the Vim plugins I use, my .vimrc configuration file and shows a way to combine Vim with Eclipse [3] using Eclim [4] . This post had a major update in January 2014. It has inspired a vim-scala-setup [5] project available on