I use IntelliJ with IdeaVim at work and I can vouch for it, but the truth is that even the better plugins for the more mainstream IDEs suffer from strange and a

I use IntelliJ with IdeaVim at work and I can vouch for it, but the truth is that even the better plugins for the more mainstream IDEs suffer from strange and annoying issues. For example: ysiw)j. will not actually surround a word in parens (without a space at the edges) and then move down and do the same to the word on the line below. Surround commands cannot be repeated in IdeaVim. It's about as good a try as I've seen at emulating vim outside of Emacs, but it's certainly not complete at all. What you said about shoehorning vim into being an IDE can be said about shoehorning IDEs into being decent editors. It's extremely hard to get both and depending on the language it's better to get the IDE with so-so editing or get the stellar editing with most of the productivity boons of nice integration.