intellij-platform-plugin-template VS ideavim

I'm a beginner in plugin development and want to develop a simple plugin to access Redis in Intellij. I forked an official repository from JetBrains containing a basic template for plugin development. I can understand how to use the Service to call some business logic and share it between the plugin's components. But I really curious about how to build a simple UI using Kotlin DSL UI. Could you guys share some useful links or repositories describing the flow of creating elements/components for the plugin? The documentation from JetBrains is excellent but it doesn't contain any proper examples for creating UI elements.

The easiest way to create a new plugin is using the template. It is being actively developing and had already included most needed features.

Now we have a great template , which contains a useful todo list

I am using the plugin project template found here (https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-platform-plugin-template)

I've cloned the JetBrains/intellij-platform-plugin-template plugin and gotten it to build correctly, but now I'm having trouble figuring out where to go next. Can someone help point me in the right direction?

[this neovim plugin](https://github.com/abecodes/tabout.nvim) helps me get out of double quotes and parenthesis while being in insert mode (I use [ideavim](https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim/)). The present implementation of this behaviour in the IDE as [smart keys](https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/settings-smart-keys.html) isn't cutting it for me.

IntelliJ with Vim bindings is really good! It is actively supported so patches come often to fix some discrepancies with the original software. It even supports a handful of plugins out of the box.

" https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim/wiki/IdeaVim-Plugins set clipboard+=unnamed set clipboard+=ideaput set ideajoin set idearefactormode=keep set incsearch " set relativenumber set showmode set hlsearch set surround set visualbell set commentary set highlightedyank set argtextobj set matchit set multiple-cursors " requires easymotion and ace-jump plugins set easymotion " requires quickscope plugin set quickscope

For partial chest hair, use IdeaVim

The biggest advantage of vim is the movements (key bindings), and there are plugins for many editors for that, e.g. https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim

There are many apps, web sites, IDE plugins, and extensions that have vim keybindings. You can use vim keybindings all the time, everywhere.

There is a nerdtree plugin for ideavim https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim/wiki/NERDTree-support

ideavim has vimscript, but I am not sure how "full" it is, never tried.

IntelliJ IDEA makes it definitively easy to start without setting things up. IdeaVim makes it better for a Vim user. But also frustrating, as certain Vim-features don't work.