After spending several hours spread across 2 or 3 days I’ve finally arrived at a (more or less) usable Scala Dev environment on Vim.

I’ve outlined my setup below!

Goals

  • Code Completion - Done
  • Syntax Highlighting - Done
  • :A access to tests (Alternates) - Pending

Guide

  1. Install Java 8 (I initially had 1.7 installed it was effectively unusable due to constant outOfMemory issues)

     # Update brew cask
 brew cask update
 # Install latest Java
 brew cask install java

  2. Install eclim

  3. Launch eclimd

     <eclipse_dir>/eclimd

  4. Install Typesafe Activator

  5. Create Scala Project

     activator new

  6. Add sbteclipse plugin

     # Add to <project_dir>/project/plugins.sbt
 addSbtPlugin("com.typesafe.sbteclipse" % "sbteclipse-plugin" % "2.5.0")

  7. Create eclipse project with sbt

     sbt eclipse

  8. Import eclipse project with eclim

     # Within Vim
 :ProjectImport .

Notes

In my case I’m using YouCompleteMe, so I had to force eclim to integrate with omnifunc:

" In your .vimrc
let g:EclimCompletionMethod = 'omnifunc'

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