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To disable it, deselect Tools | Vim in the main menu. In the Settings/Preferences dialog ( Ctrl+Alt+S), select Plugins.įind the IdeaVim plugin in the Marketplace and click Install.Īfter you restart the IntelliJ IDEA, Vim is enabled and the editor starts operating in the Vim mode. The IdeaVim plugin emulates Vim in the IntelliJ IDEA editor, including normal, insert, and visual modes, Command-line and Ex modes, Vim regexp and configuration, and other features. The following is only valid when the IdeaVim plugin is installed and enabled.

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You can install NERDTree with Vundle by adding the following line to your. The NERDTree is a file system explorer for Vim that can be used to visually browse complex directory hierarchies, quickly open files for reading or editing, and perform basic file system operations. If you want to see more, this VimCast is an excellent demo that covers a lot of cool aspects of Fugitive. Looks like I only have myself to blame for that one. And the scrolling is even bound between them! One of my favorite features is that when you use the :Gblame command it will open a buffer in a vertical split with all of the git blame annotations side by side with the lines of the file you are working on. This works particularly well with commands that don't have a lot of output.įor example, here is the simple functionality of adding the changes of the file you're currently working on to prepare for a commit. With Fugitive you can run :Git, or even just :G followed by an arbitrary Git command to run that command directly from Vim and have the output echoed in a stream. On Unix based systems, you can install it by running the following command:

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If you are a Windows user, the maintainers wrote a detailed guide for installing it on Windows. Vundle requires Git to function, so make sure you have that installed on your machine. You can think of this as the zero index in the array of awesome Vim plugins covered in this post.

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I have personally used Vundle a lot over the years, so let's walk through how to set that up. You'll need one of these if you are using an older version of Vim, but even as a Vim 8 user they are still useful in that they provide extra features and might make things easier if you are going to be using a lot of plugins. There are also automated plugin managers for Vim like Vundle or vim-plug which are developed by the community. You can also use Git submodules to manage them, as described in this blog post. These packages can have a start directory in which plugins are loaded on startup, and an opt directory with plugins that need to be loaded manually with the command :packadd.įor most plugins, you can git clone their repository directly to ~/.vim/pack/start or ~/.vim/pack/opt to add them. Vim will consider any directory under ~/.vim/pack to be a package. With Vim 8 packages, you can clone most of these and add them that way. In this post, I will be linking a GitHub repository for each plugin I talk about. Native Package Support in Vim 8Īs of the release of Vim 8, Vim now has built in support for packages, which you can use to install these plugins. Installing and Managing Pluginsīefore moving onto the plugins I want to cover, let's talk about how to actually install and manage plugins in Vim. As someone who has been using Vim as his primary editor for about 7 years now, I'm going to share some of the ones that I think are important for any Vim user. vimrc, there are a ton of awesome plugins that extend Vim's functionality.

On top of configuring basic mappings, settings, and behaviors in your. One thing Vim users love about their favorite text editor is it's seemingly endless extensibility.

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