ideavim

(not the person you are replying to) I am primarily an Emacs user, using the standard key bindings (and a whole bunch of custom bindings and functions I've built on top of it over the decades, ctrl remaped to caps lock and no Emacs pinky so far). But I am also 80% a NeoVim and Vim user for about 15 years now, and I consider myself quite proficient with Vim keybindings. The Emacs emulation is truly incredible, but the fact that Vim implementation quality varies wildly from environment to environment is extremely frustrating to me. For example, the jupyterlab-vim plugin is so jarringly broken in a handful of ways that it completely knocks me out of the flow of whatever I was doing when I encounter those emulation failures. IntelliJ's idea Vim plugin is a pretty decent one, but even there I have encountered the occasional issue [1][2][3]. Ot

Yep. With IntelliJ you just install the ideavim editor plugin with default settings then get to work. https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim Or you can waste months pissing around with Vim plugins to create a poor mans IDE out of sticks and stones like a caveman.

Code navigations can be improved in a plenty of ways. I use JetBrains' IDEs daily, but most points can be applied to other IDEs/editors. Some things that helped me to become a lot more efficient: - Vim. Since you mostly edit code, not write it, it is reasonable to be in the editing mode by default, with a full keyboard of shortcuts you can use, not only ctrl/alt combinations. I use IdeaVim[1] plugin for Vim emulation. - Never use your mouse. Keyboard actions are faster and more consistent once you get used to it. IDEs and editors are highly customizable and should allow to bind almost any action. - Get rid of tabs, keep 1-3 active buffers in your vicinity. And then use ctrl+tab or ctrl+e to switch between them. - Learn tricks for code navigation: jump to definition/usage/implementation, search file/class/symbol. - Learn tricks for text na

The biggest advantage of vim is the movements (key bindings), and there are plugins for many editors for that, e.g. https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim

If you want to have it the other way around (having Vim inside your IDE instead of turning your Vim to an IDE) I’d suggest you to try IdeaVim [0] with PyCharm. Works very well, you can even use your own .vimrc file. [0] - https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim

Absurd he doesn't mention https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim

Yes, it has a vim emulator, ideavim. It's far from perfect, but I would say it's better than most. https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim

Let me blow your mind: ideaVim[1] is an official extension that enables vim like behaviour inside JetBrain editors - you can have best of both worlds! [1] - https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim

Simply not true. Actually Jetbrains IDEs have IMO one of the best if not the best VIM emulations in all IDEs, IdeaVIM is awesome. For example, you can have your own custom "vimrc", they call it ".ideavimrc" which can also read your normal .vimrc but I prefer to keep it separate. Once in the .ideavimrc, ideavim has emulation for probably the most popular vim plugin (vim-surround) and also vim-multiple-cursor and commentary.vim plugins, you just have to enable them... set surround, etc... see more at: https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim But to me the best part of it is doing my own keymappings to execute IDE actions which sometimes don't even have a shortcut or menu and are just accessible by "mouse" you can do stuff like: :map <leader>r :action Refactorings.QuickListPopupAction<CR> (refactor this popup) :map <leader>z :action ChangesView.

https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim for any readers interested. It IS much better than when I tried it. It parses your vimrc with and matches simple patterns to support the subset of features it does support but it doesn't really have an interpreter although one was discussed https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/VIM-669 Which means no plugins for example or complex viml. Presumably this would simply be ignored not broken. Another approach for a different environment that seems more interesting https://github.com/lunixbochs/ActualVim I don't use sublime so I can't report on how optimal it is the idea of using an embedded vim instance is certainly interesting.

We have this and it works very well https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim Plain Vim does not have the semantic / refactoring capabilities of a real IDE. This plugin gives the best of both worlds.

This stuff is all supported by IDEs, though. e.g., https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim