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Using IdeaVim with IntelliJ
monday, may 04, 2020I’ve been a VIM user for a few years and I’m also using the IdeaVim plugin in IntelliJ. The following configuration and features helped me a lot.
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You can configure the same keymappings that you have in your regular VIM in the
~/.ideavimrc
file. -
Setting
idearefactormode
tokeep
makes the behavior of refactorings such as renamings more deterministic. -
In a dialog hitting
<Esc>
won’t work since it closes the dialog, but if your cursor is caught in selection mode, pressingCtrl+]
works without moving your hands off the home row. -
The GitHub repository provides helpful guidance on configuration and which features are supported.
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The ideajoin mode is a nice feature that can “smart-join” strings, control structures, and others.
This is how ideajoin
works, when joining with Shift+J
:

You can find my .ideavimrc
config file in my Dotfiles on GitHub.
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