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You can install IdeaVim in PyCharm. I've been using IdeaVim with IntelliJ for 6 years and could never go back to non-vim style editing. This plugin provides the

• michaelmrose 7y ago
  Not to be unkind but have you tried actual Vim or adding any functionality to an ide?
  • huseyinkeles 7y ago
    Not OP but I’ve been using ideaVim for many years now and I can say that it’s quite good. It even uses my main .vimrc file and handles most of the things very well.
    • michaelmrose 7y ago
      https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim 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 interpreter although one was discussed https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/VIM-669 https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/VIM-669 Which means no plugins for example or complex viml. Presumably this would simply be ignored not broken. Another approach for a different environment that seems more interesting https://github.com/lunixbochs/ActualVim https://github.com/lunixbochs/ActualVim I don't use sublime so I can't report on how optimal it is the idea of using an embedded vim instance is certainly interesting.
  • chimpburger 7y ago
    Yes I have used plain Vim as a text editor for many years. It's a great text editor. I know it was also used for writing code back in the old days. For working on large modern JVM codebases, however, Vim is a toy in comparison to IDEA. Vim is for manipulating syntax. IDEA has advanced semantic features that will remain far outside of Vim's domain.