That's also how I've been doing it for some time now - best of both worlds! Sometimes it can get a little flaky though as recently there were some glitches in

That's also how I've been doing it for some time now - best of both worlds! Sometimes it can get a little flaky though as recently there were some glitches in the IdeaVim plugin and it hurt my productivity badly (I'm so much faster in Vim mode). The issues have fortunately been fixed by now. I had always been struggling with Vim for bigger projects because I had to waste many good hours over highly individual sets of dotfiles with plugins like Nerdtree and others (integrated debugging, jumping to function definitions etc) I could have been programming instead... IDEs like Xcode and RubyMine are tightly integrated with their domain out of the box so to me there is not much I could rationalize about in terms of using Vim (unfortunately). I even picked up WebStorm for node/js/html development recently, naturally with the IdeaVim plugin activated at all times :)