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by boring_twenties 2149 days ago
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!

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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.