Web Essentials vs VsVIM

Web Essentials

Visual Studio extension (by madskristensen)

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VsVIM

Vim Emulator Plugin for Visual Studio 2015+ (by VsVim)

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Web Essentials		VsVIM
	Project
-	Mentions	4
946	Stars	3,594
-	Growth	0.6%
0.0	Activity	4.6
almost 8 years ago	Latest Commit	27 days ago
C#	Language	C#
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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Web Essentials

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

VsVIM

Posts with mentions or reviews of VsVIM. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2020-11-18.

coming from neovim, should i use ctrl as normal mode?
1 project | /r/VisualStudio | 18 Feb 2023

I'd start with installing the VsVim extension and see how you go from there. https://github.com/VsVim/VsVim/wiki
Can't enable VsVim on Visual Studio for Mac because of missing dependency
1 project | /r/VisualStudio | 15 Aug 2022
How to detect VsVim in .vimrc?
1 project | /r/vim | 21 Apr 2021

You’re right it is emulated vim - https://github.com/VsVim/VsVim
Vim and Vim Emulators
2 projects | dev.to | 18 Nov 2020

The three main Vim emulators I've used are VsVim for Visual Studio, VSCodeVim, and IdeaVim. I've had generally good experiences with all of them, and they can all effectively emulate the main features of Vim that I find useful. As long as I can use the standard motions and keybindings and create some simple imap and nmap rules, I'm happy. If the emulator supports macros and relative line numbers that's even better.

What are some alternatives?

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