I use jVi and love it! I've tried the vi plugins for all the major
IDEs and think jVi is the best of them.

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Tor Norbye <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

-- 
R. Mark Volkmann
Object Computing, Inc.

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