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Are there no good vim extensions for IntelliJ or Eclipse?

rooster8 14y ago
There's a good one for IntelliJ called IdeaVim. I tried solutions for Eclipse back when I used it, but I couldn't find one that I liked.
- dmiladinov 14y ago
  When I was using eclipse, I found VRapper[0] a decent enough vim plugin. I also agree with you about IdeaVim, it's a good vim, and it's been open-sourced[1]. [0]: http://vrapper.sourceforge.net/home/ http://vrapper.sourceforge.net/home/ [1]: https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim
dljsjr 14y ago
For me one of the draws to vim isn't vim in its bare state, but vim with my plugins of choice, and I have yet to find a vim emulation plugin that loads the vim runtime, with the exception being eclim for Eclipse; unfortunately, the vim-mode for eclim is just vim with a janky plugin, and the embedded mode doesn't work on OS X because MacVim can't be embedded the way vim-gtk can.
pekk 14y ago
If I cannot use vim's : commands or plugins, then merely implementing a few keybindings like hjkl is worthless to me.
martinced 14y ago
That would be the world backward: it's like when IntelliJ or Eclipse do offer Emacs shortcuts (Emacs shortcuts being the stupidest things ever invented --and this comes as a long time Emacs user), completely missing the point. BUT there's light at the end of the tunnel: there's eclim (eclim.org), which allows you to use vim (the real one) as the text editor for Eclipse. Or if you want you can run Eclipse in headless mode and then have vim transparently contact the (local) eclim server and suggest you, right in your vim, the autocompletion hints from Eclipse etc.
Roboprog 14y ago
Well, you could try to use NetBeans with the vim plugin instead. The ability to use vim, plus the undocking windows, are what made me switch from Eclipse to NetBeans. Got tired of tiled windows crowding each "perspective", and constantly reaching for the mouse.

There's a good one for IntelliJ called IdeaVim. I tried solutions for Eclipse back when I used it, but I couldn't find one that I liked.

dmiladinov 14y ago
When I was using eclipse, I found VRapper[0] a decent enough vim plugin. I also agree with you about IdeaVim, it's a good vim, and it's been open-sourced[1]. [0]: http://vrapper.sourceforge.net/home/ http://vrapper.sourceforge.net/home/ [1]: https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim

dljsjr 14y ago

For me one of the draws to vim isn't vim in its bare state, but vim with my plugins of choice, and I have yet to find a vim emulation plugin that loads the vim runtime, with the exception being eclim for Eclipse; unfortunately, the vim-mode for eclim is just vim with a janky plugin, and the embedded mode doesn't work on OS X because MacVim can't be embedded the way vim-gtk can.

pekk 14y ago

If I cannot use vim's : commands or plugins, then merely implementing a few keybindings like hjkl is worthless to me.

martinced 14y ago

That would be the world backward: it's like when IntelliJ or Eclipse do offer Emacs shortcuts (Emacs shortcuts being the stupidest things ever invented --and this comes as a long time Emacs user), completely missing the point. BUT there's light at the end of the tunnel: there's eclim (eclim.org), which allows you to use vim (the real one) as the text editor for Eclipse. Or if you want you can run Eclipse in headless mode and then have vim transparently contact the (local) eclim server and suggest you, right in your vim, the autocompletion hints from Eclipse etc.

Roboprog 14y ago

Well, you could try to use NetBeans with the vim plugin instead. The ability to use vim, plus the undocking windows, are what made me switch from Eclipse to NetBeans. Got tired of tiled windows crowding each "perspective", and constantly reaching for the mouse.