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IdeaVim – A Vim engine for JetBrains IDEs

25 mentions on Hacker News by 24 people: 3 stories, 22 comments · first 2013-03-27 · latest 2026-10-29

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  1. …1: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/VIM-569 2: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/VIM-636 3: https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim/pull/33
    comment by wilkystyle · 2026-10-29 · in Emacs Turns 50
  2. 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…
    comment by xcv123 · 2024-04-05 · in Inspectopedia: Analyze code against inspections in your IDE or CI pipeline
  3. …- Learn tricks for text navigation: pretty much any decent tutorial on Vim navigation will do. [1]: https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim
    comment by ivanjermakov · 2023-04-05 · in Show HN: We are building an open-source IDE powered by AI
  4. …of vim is the movements (key bindings), and there are plugins for many editors for that, e.g. https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim
    comment by zamalek · 2022-12-27 · in I have reached Vim nirvana
  5. …you to try IdeaVim [0] with PyCharm. Works very well, you can even use your own .vimrc file. [0] - https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim
    comment by huseyinkeles · 2020-12-12 · in Vim Creep (2011)
  6. Absurd he doesn't mention https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim
    comment by The_rationalist · 2020-11-05 · in Switching from Vim to Intellij
  7. 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
    comment by city41 · 2020-11-05 · in Switching from Vim to Intellij
  8. …that enables vim like behaviour inside JetBrain editors - you can have best of both worlds! [1] - https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim
    comment by kabacha · 2019-12-16 · in JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised
  9. …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…
    comment by ej12n · 2019-10-02 · in Learning Vim incrementally (2010)
  10. 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…
    comment by michaelmrose · 2019-07-21 · in History and Effective Use of Vim
  11. 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.
    comment by chimpburger · 2019-04-11 · in Why Vi Rocks
  12. This stuff is all supported by IDEs, though. e.g., https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim
    comment by emodendroket · 2018-07-09 · in What I would do differently if I was learning to program again
  13. …[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/edt/Scro... [3] https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim/blob/master/doc/set-com... [4] https://atom.io/packages/scrolloff
    comment by bebna · 2018-07-03 · in A simple distraction-free, no gimmick writing tool
  14. The IdeaVIM plugin for IntelliJ is excellent, I use it in PHPStorm and PyCharm. https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim
    comment by dotancohen · 2017-11-01 · in VS Code Roadmap 2018
  15. "y}" works with IdeaVIM. https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim
    comment by lenkite · 2017-02-02 · in Using Vim as a Python IDE
  16. Actually, there is some minimal support for map keybindings. See https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim
    comment by lenkite · 2016-09-13 · in Vim 8.0 released
  17. …Visual Studio soon, so VS + Resharper + VsVim should be interesting. [0] http://spacemacs.org/ [1] https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim
    comment by rl3 · 2016-04-25 · in Vim vs. IDE's
  18. IdeaVim [0], a free plugin, is the best vim emulator I've ever used. [0] https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim
    comment by cmsimike · 2016-01-03 · in IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to Java 8
  19. …will be released soon. We have been working on making IdeaVim more stable, see the changelog https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim/blob/master/CHANGES.md .
    comment by vlasovskikh · 2013-09-24 · in JetBrains releases open-source Python IDE
  20. ideaVim is Open Source and contributions are welcome. https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim
    comment by hhariri · 2013-06-15 · in One Year Later: Review of PyCharm 2.7 from a Vim User’s Perspective
  21. Fix it! https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim I'm sure they would happily take a pull request
    comment by jcdavis · 2013-05-17 · in Eclipse committer on Android IDE switch to IntelliJ
  22. …it's a good vim, and it's been open-sourced[1]. [0]: http://vrapper.sourceforge.net/home/ [1]: https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim
    comment by dmiladinov · 2013-03-27 · in Vim speed is not really the point