Vim & IdeaVim shortcuts, resources, keystroke combos and commands

My approach is to use WebStorm and the other JetBrains products to get good language support, and IdeaVim to increase my general coding and typing efficiency.

This is a great feature : Mapping IDEA Actions to VIM shortcuts.

These are the Vim-commands I find most useful (except for a few that are merely interesting like g??). In IdeaVim some of the commands, like :r, :e and :b? do not work as in the original Vim, yet.

If you find errors or grave and omissions, please let me know : @andreasoverland

I have included my .vimrc and .ideavimrc in the bottom

Resources for beginning Vim users:

• Get the book Modern Vim by Drew Neil
• Your first VimRC: How to setup your vim's vimrc
• How to do 90% of what plugins do (with just Vim)
• Getting started with IdeaVim
• Vim Cheat Sheet
• Advanced Vim Macros
• Vim Alphabet video series on YouTube by @chantastic
• Tutorial on Editing, Navigation and File management, on YouTube

Follow me on Twitter : @andreasoverland

This is my .vimrc

set nocompatible
filetype off

filetype plugin indent on

syntax enable
let mapleader = " "
set ignorecase
set ruler
set autoindent
set incsearch
set encoding=utf-8
set noexpandtab
set tabstop=4               " tab size is 4
set number                  " always show line number
set nostartofline
set clipboard^=unnamed,unnamedplus
set showcmd
set showmode
set path+=**
set nowrap
set noswapfile
set nobackup
set noerrorbells
set nu rnu

noremap <Up> <NOP>
noremap <Down> <NOP>
noremap <Left> <NOP>
noremap <Right> <NOP>
inoremap jj <Esc>
xnoremap u <nop>

"Mode Settings

let &t_SI.="\e[1 q" "SI = INSERT mode
let &t_SR.="\e[3 q" "SR = REPLACE mode
let &t_EI.="\e[2 q" "EI = NORMAL mode (ELSE)


"Cursor settings:

"  1 -> blinking block
"  2 -> solid block
"  3 -> blinking underscore
"  4 -> solid underscore
"  5 -> blinking vertical bar
"  6 -> solid vertical bar

			

My .ideavimrc

source .vimrc
set clipboard+=unnamed
set surround
set multiple-cursors
set ideajoin
set surround           " Lets you surround with motion : ysiw" would sourround a word with "
set sneak              " Great plugin for two letter multiline search
set number
set relativenumber

let mapleader = " "

imap jj <Esc>
nnoremap <C-k> :m -2<CR>
nnoremap <C-j> :m +1<CR>
xnoremap u <nop>
nmap <leader>t :action ActivateTerminalToolWindow<CR>
nnoremap <leader>r :action RenameElement<CR>
nnoremap <leader>d :action Debug<CR>
nnoremap <leader>si :source ~/.ideavimrc<CR>
nnoremap <leader>M :action ToggleBookmarkWithMnemonic<CR>
nnoremap <leader>m :action ShowBookmarks<CR>
			

Last update : 2024.05.01

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