Vim vs IDEs

Have you tried using a vim emulator in your IDE? I've been using IdeaVim for IntelliJ for a few months now and it feels like having the best of both worlds. You get the power of vim combined with all the typical IDE features without having to spend hours on configuration.

It's not so much the absence of vim as it is their apparent ignorance of the magic of hotkeys. Download a vim plugin for your IDE and you get modal editing (usually w/ vimrc binding support) too. imo that's the absolute best way to go. You get modal editing speed, modern UI, better autocomplete over a wider bank of languages, two key press project wide refactors, go to definition without needing ctags, a terminal in the ide so you can still run commands easily (typically better th

Many IDE's have a VIM editor plugin, so you can have the best of both worlds :)

After about four years of using Vim, I'm starting to see it's more of a paradigm (and almost a philosophy) built into an editor, rather than the editor itself. One thing many people complain about when they switch to Vim is editor's inability to understand their code unless they set up exuberant ctags, etc. Even then, the code completion (omnicomplete, supertab, etc) isn't to the grade of commercial IDEs.It's only in the past few months, I've realized that every major IDE out there - from Vis

What IDE are you using? Almost all of them have either vim mode or a vim plugin. I love vim, but I almost never use it directly. I usually use JetBrains IDE with vim plugin. Best of both worlds.

I am glad switching to an IDE worked for you, but for me a well extended and configured Vim setup is the best IDE on earth. Anything an IDE can do, Vim can typically do as well given the right plugin.

Why an IDE? Vim can do such things just fine.

Vim is a text editor, not a code editor. IDEs are much more efficient for code edit.

If you want use IDE, try some vim plugin for IDE, like vrapper, ideavim and so on

I like Vim's editing model. Vim itself is a truly awesome piece of software. BUT - it doesn't have IDE style features, which I have come to rely on to do my job effectively, built in.Luckily for me, Vim's editing model exists in the IDEs I use via Vim 'emulation' plugins. In Jetbrains IDEs and in VSCode, the emulation is quite good. In the incredibly rare instance where I need a macro or some similar 'power user' Vim feature, I just pop that file open in Vim