jVi for NetBeans isn't just a keyboard profile; given vi's modes etc I
don't think it's possible to accurately support it via keybindings.

It's a full vi engine - it supports "200 normal mode commands
including vim's visual block mode, tag stack and external process
commands and filters as with the '!' commands" - and this still works
with NetBeans editing features such as code completion and hint/error
markups and corrective actions.

Here are the recent changes document:
http://jvi.sourceforge.net/CHANGES.html

Again, I haven't used it personally but I've heard from multiple vi
users that it's pretty decent (though that was with the 6.7/6.8
versions; not sure how solid the 6.9 support is yet.)

By the way - there was a big editor infrastructure rewrite in NetBeans
6.9 to replace the whole view hierarchy (to support features like soft
wrapping etc); it was disabled before release but I think they're
working on fixing the remaining problems now. I believe this is also
going to benefit the vi integration going forward.

-- Tor

On Jul 1, 10:43 am, Lyle <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Tor Norbye <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Have you tried jvi (a vi plugin for NetBeans) ?   I don't use it
> > personally but I've seen people state that it works and that it works
> > well (e.g.http://jjinux.blogspot.com/2010/06/ides-netbeans.html)
>
> > There's a version available for 6.9 now:
> >http://blogs.sun.com/katakai/entry/jvi_netbeans_module_updated
>
> > -- Tor
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. I'm currently an Eclipse user and have
> tried most of the vi[m] plugins available there (currently using
> Vrapper for basic keybindings). The problem is that most don't go
> beyond basic navigation and editing keybindings (often incomplete, and
> which only scratches the surface of Vim's power) and don't leverage
> the configurability of my .vimrc.
>
> Eclim[1] is almost exactly what I want, but the "embedding vim as an
> Eclipse editor" feature isn't available on OSX for one reason or
> another so I'm sunk there as well. I'd jump ship to a new IDE in a
> heartbeat if it let me embed a fully-featured Vim.
>
> -Lyle
>
> [1]http://eclim.org/

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