[boring_twenties]

I used to use IdeaVim with IntelliJ, it was utterly awful.

All of the basic commands were wildly incompatible with vi and vim. Example: u (undo). Not only would it add cursor movements to the undo stack, it would also put multiple actions onto the stack as one, so you could only undo them all at once or not at all.

That's the one I remember most -- it's been over 5 years -- but not a single day went by without some utterly flabbergasting surprise when expecting it to, you know, emulate vi/vim.

Somewhat ironically, about 5 years before that, I used some similar plugin for Visual Studio and that one was infinitely better. It cost $99, but my employer paid for it, and it actually performed as advertised.

Even that didn't implement "advanced" vim commands that I like a lot -- like :perldo -- but at least it didn't fail to get even the basics right.

In the end I don't think any IDE vim-mode can be good enough. What I think would be best is if the IDE somehow embedded the actual vim editor.

[pnako]

Sorry for recommending this. I have a lot of experience with Jetbrains IDE, but not with the plugin itself. I use vim in vim mode occasionally :)

I think the Neovim project has a goal to eventually make the editor easy to integrate in larger applications, as a plugin, which makes a ton of sense.

[boring_twenties]

Well now I'm sorry that you're sorry! Wasn't my intent, if it works for you and are happy with it, of course you should recommend it. Maybe some people don't even care about actual compatibility, and just want a modal editor. That's fine. I only meant to add my own experience, not discount yours.