Text editors with vim mode?

Question

I've come across ViEmu, and I read the very motivating article: Why, oh WHY, do those #?@! nutheads use vi?

Anyway, I've come to like the command mode in vim, specially the motions, and I also like the idea behind ViEmu, which is to bring "vim mode" into a typical text editor.

What other editors have a similar "vim mode" or a plugin that provides the functionality?

Solution 1

I am a huge fan of vim myself, so whenever I am trying a new IDE, I am instantly looking for a vim plugin. Here is a short list of plugins that I found:

• Atom - vim-mode
• Eclipse - Vrapper / Vimplugin / Eclim
• Idea / WebStorm / pyCharm / RubyMine / CLion / PhpStorm / AppCode - IdeaVim
• NetBeans - jVi
• Notepad++ - ViSimulator
• Visual Studio - ViEmu / vsvim
• Xcode - Xvim

Also, a couple of editors/IDEs have built-in vim mode:

• AbiWord word processor supports vi keybindings.
• Kate text editor includes a vi mode.
• QtCreator has FakeVim mode.
• Sublime Text has vintage mode.
• Even Emacs has viper-mode!
• bash, gdb, mysql-client, and many other applications use the GNU Readline library to interact with the user. Readline includes a vi mode.
• In Bourne-style shells like ksh and zsh, type set -o vi to enable vi-like command-line editing.
• ViEmu works also in Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft SQL Server and Word!

Bonus - web browsers! Really, try it, it is awesome!

• Firefox - vimperator
• Chromium/Chrome - cvim / vimium
• Sadly, all of vi plugins for Opera seem outdated.

Please let me know if I forgot something, I would be happy to extend the list. For a more extensive list (sometimes sadly outdated), please see this article.

Solution 2

It's worth noting that there's a lot more to vi than keybindings. As this blog post notes, there isn't any IDE plugin that emulates all the features vi.

Solution 3

Editra has vim mode

Solution 4

Check out excellent Vrapper plugin for Eclipse.

Vrapper is an eclipse plugin which acts as a wrapper for eclipse text editors to provide a Vim-like input scheme for moving around and editing text.

Unlike other plugins which embed Vim in Eclipse, Vrapper imitates the behaviour of Vim while still using whatever editor you have opened in the workbench. The goal is to have the comfort and ease which comes with the different modes, complex commands and count/operator/motion combinations which are the key features behind editing with Vim, while preserving the powerful features of the different Eclipse text editors, like code generation and refactoring.

Vrapper tries to offer Eclipse users the best of both worlds.

Solution 5

I primarily use:

• Visual Studio with ViEmu
• NetBeans with jVi

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