Do you debug C++ code in Vim? How?
The question is to all you people, who use Vim to develop C++ applications.
There was a period in my life, which can be described as 'I hate Vim!!!'..'Vim is nice!'
However, having grown up mostly on Microsoft development IDEs, I've got used to those F5-F11 shortcuts when debugging code, watch window, call stack and the main code - all visible without need to type any GDB commands.
So, here is the question:
Do you use Vim as well for debugging? Or do you switch to some IDE for this purpose? Which one?
For those who use Vim to debug code: are there plugins to set breakpoints in editor, highlight the line we're currently debugging, auto-navigation during step, step into, step out?
Please, don't tell me you use GDB as command line, see only one line which is debugged, etc.
Answer
In contrast with the other answers, there are at least three options that do just what you require: clewn, pyclewn and vimgdb.
All three projects are related. vimgdb is a patch against Vim and requires Vim to be recompiled. clewn is a standalone program that communicates with Vim through the Netbeans socket interface. This requires Vim to be built with the +netbeans option (this is the case in recent Linux distributions so it shouldn't be a problem).
To quote from the clewn's website:
Clewn implements full gdb support in the vim editor: breakpoints, watch variables, gdb command completion, assembly windows, etc.
I think you should definitely give it a go.
The homepage of the pyclewn website shows a comparison between the three projects.
A few months ago I tried pyclewn. It was a bit difficult to set up, but it looks well though out and promising. I just did some tests and you could set bookmarks, etc., the usual stuff you would expect from a graphical debugger. I ended up not using it for contingent reasons but I am keen to give it another try.