NetBeans and Vim (jVi plugin)

The version of NetBeans installed is the latest 6.9.1 and can be obtained for free at http://netbeans.org/.  The C/C++ pack was installed.  JDK 6 (Java Development Kit) also needs to be installed, but that was already installed on the computer for something else.  The jVi (vi editor clone) plugin can be downloaded at http://sourceforge.net/projects/jvi/.  The downloaded nbvi‑1.3.0.x1.zip file was unzipped, which contains a directory that was put into the Program Files\NetBeans 6.9.1 directory. To install this plugin package, once NetBeans was installed and running, go to Tools/Plugins and the Downloaded tab. Select “Add Plugins...” and find the nbvi-1.3.0.x1 directory and select the two .nbm files. Once both are selected, select the Install button.

Before going into what was needed to make CVS work with NetBeans (which is not necessary for building the IBCP program from the source, but I want to give details on how to do it since it may help someone else in a similar situation as it took a bit of searching to figure it out), I wanted to see what was needed to make debugging work within NetBeans (it works very nice under Linux). This can be done by actually debugging starting with the Ninth Translator (Commands) test...