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What do you think of using vim plugins inside an IDE, such as IdeaVIM? How much of the benefits of what you describe do you think would remain? I've been tryin

What do you think of using vim plugins inside an IDE, such as IdeaVIM? How much of the benefits of what you describe do you think would remain? I've been trying to spend more time in vim since last year because I can imagine a world with the benefits you describe, and I want to put in the long-run investment to get there. But at the same time, Vim naturally lacks the feature set of an IDE, and setting up a bunch of plug-ins so that they all work together is somewhat time consuming and brittle. I've been wondering if I should stick to Jetbrains/VS Code and use Vim as a text manipulation language, and whether I'd still attain that editing fluency you describe.

xwdv 4y ago
Plug-ins are always a personal choice. For me the most essential is fuzzy finder with ctrl-P. With this I can arrive at any file or line in a massive codebase damn near instantly. I find vim with the right plugins is as capable as any IDE, you can at least have the basics like autocomplete and various syntax highlighters and linters. Personally I think developers who lean heavily on the IDE features of more common tools are using it as a crutch for not knowing the codebase very well or language features. Part of the journey to vim mastery is the configuration of vim until it fits you like a glove, once you’ve configured it well you rarely need to touch the config files again.