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.