[greyman]

My main problem with vim was, that I spent deliberate effort to learn some of its shortcuts, but I need to use text editor in a console only a few times per week, like change some config file or add line to cronjob. And then one tends to forget all the shortcuts, when not using it regularly enough.

[wilsonnb3]

Many IDEs and other editors have a vi-mode either built in or available as a plug in. I don’t use vim itself much (at work, at least) but I use vi keybindings everywhere.

[boring_twenties]

Which are your favorites?

I have used the IdeaVim plugin for IntelliJ, and honestly it was so bad it was worse than not having the plugin at all. Maybe 20% of commands actually behaved consistently with vim. And IIRC, a decent chunk of my preferred vim functionality was outright unimplemented.

Perhaps ironically, I didn't have any such problems with the (commercial) plugin for Visual Studio. It worked very well. It cost $100, but my employer paid for that.

I've basically given up on IDEs after that and just use vim itself. If you know of any that have a really good vi-mode plugin, I'd love to try one!

[ralls_ebfe]

Emacs has a pretty good vi mode called evil. I use spacemacs, but I am not sure, if it is what you are looking for. Should you try it, do yourself a favor and use the development branch. I read good things about doom Emacs as well.

[feanaro]

Yes, I think it only makes sense to learn vim if you're going to spend a lot of time using it actively. I use vim for almost all programming I do, so that made it really easy to burn it in my brain forever.