Ask HN: What IDE best supports Vim mode?

• oni2

  42 7,735 0.0 Reason

  Native, lightweight modal code editor

  

Neovim [1].

Emacs with evil-mode work pretty well (IMO the best "vi-emulation within other editors; the vi-plugin in JetBrains-IDEs works also quite well, though), however I learned painfully that you need to know two languages in order to configure it to your needs: Emacs lisp as well as well as vimscript for your vim-configuration. And that is just too heavy for me, so I'm back to Neovim.

There was the very promising OniVim 2 [2], which is very fast and powerful. However fundings were not enough, so the work onn it came to a hold.

And then there exists a handful of other modal editors with vim-like modes. Kakoune [3] comes to my mind here, which may be currently the most vim-like non-vim editor actively developed.

[1] https://neovim.io/

[2] https://v2.onivim.io/

[3] http://kakoune.org/

• neovim

  1,384 76,665 10.0 Vim Script

  Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

  

Neovim [1].

Emacs with evil-mode work pretty well (IMO the best "vi-emulation within other editors; the vi-plugin in JetBrains-IDEs works also quite well, though), however I learned painfully that you need to know two languages in order to configure it to your needs: Emacs lisp as well as well as vimscript for your vim-configuration. And that is just too heavy for me, so I'm back to Neovim.

There was the very promising OniVim 2 [2], which is very fast and powerful. However fundings were not enough, so the work onn it came to a hold.

And then there exists a handful of other modal editors with vim-like modes. Kakoune [3] comes to my mind here, which may be currently the most vim-like non-vim editor actively developed.

[1] https://neovim.io/

[2] https://v2.onivim.io/

[3] http://kakoune.org/

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• kakoune

  110 9,589 9.7 C++

  mawww's experiment for a better code editor

Neovim [1].

Emacs with evil-mode work pretty well (IMO the best "vi-emulation within other editors; the vi-plugin in JetBrains-IDEs works also quite well, though), however I learned painfully that you need to know two languages in order to configure it to your needs: Emacs lisp as well as well as vimscript for your vim-configuration. And that is just too heavy for me, so I'm back to Neovim.

There was the very promising OniVim 2 [2], which is very fast and powerful. However fundings were not enough, so the work onn it came to a hold.

And then there exists a handful of other modal editors with vim-like modes. Kakoune [3] comes to my mind here, which may be currently the most vim-like non-vim editor actively developed.

[1] https://neovim.io/

[2] https://v2.onivim.io/

[3] http://kakoune.org/

• SpaceVim

  86 19,974 4.8 Vim Script

  Discontinued A community-driven modular vim/neovim distribution - The ultimate vimrc

  

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