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The vim emulation plugin has gotten better recently, IMO it's the best I've seen in a GUI editor. The undo history thing sort of persists because the vim plugin

The vim emulation plugin has gotten better recently, IMO it's the best I've seen in a GUI editor. The undo history thing sort of persists because the vim plugin maintains a different undo history than vscode. They implement undo branches whereas VSCode's native undo stack does not, and the native stack only sees large chunks of changes instead of individual actions. I'm actually working on a fork of VSCode that rewrites their native undo stack to support branching and more granular control so the vim plugin can sync to it and not maintain two undo histories. We're hoping to submit a PR for that soonish, as soon as school stops kicking my butt.

StevePerkins 9y ago
I'm not sure about the boundary where "editor" ends and "IDE" begins, and I'm not sure which side VS Code falls on at this point. Either way, I think it worth mentioning that the Vim emulation plugin for JetBrains' products is truly the best out there... and a great milestone for others to strive toward. The scope of what's emulated (including Vim-style search and replace), the ability to cherry pick which keyboard shortcuts use Vim mappings and which use the native editor mappings, etc. In my humble opinion, IntelliJ is a better Vim than Vim is. I noodle around with VS Code here and there... but it's approaching an uncanny valley point where it's too heavy for use as a plain text editor, but not able to compete with WebStorm (or whatever) as a web IDE.