jc.nvim VS ideavim

When I had to use Java for uni, I used the javacomplete2 plugin which I've found to do a better job than the Java language server. I've just check and apparently it's deprecated in favor of jc.nvim which is based on jdtls (which I remember was very heavy on resources and provide very little in return, but maybe things changed since then) but from the same author, so if you still want to use Neovim for Java you should at least check it out.

This plugin is amazing for programming in Java.

Third, look into https://github.com/artur-shaik/vim-javacomplete2 . It hasn't bee updated in a while, but I still find it useful, especially for generating the tons of boilerplate code that Java requires. If you are on neovim, you can also try https://github.com/artur-shaik/jc.nvim

[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.