Is there a way to get IdeaVIM to honor the mappings from my .vimrc file?

Question

I've recently gotten into vim in a big way (again), and I now have a ton of customization in my .vimrc file. I realize that not everything in there would make sense in the context of an IDEA plugin, but I'd really like it if things like remapping jj to Esc were picked up and honored. Is there a way to do that? Without needing to manually tweak all that stuff in IDEA's keymap, that is.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Updated answer: IdeaVim version 0.35 (released 2014-05-15) reads settings and key bindings from ~/.ideavimrc. You can put source ~/.vimrc in that file if you want to include mappings from ~/.vimrc.

0.33 and 0.34 read ~/.vimrc directly.

0.33 (released 2014-04-28) was the first version to implement VIM-288, including things like mapping jj to ESC. It works great, and there's a new Vim Emulation section in the IDEA preferences that lists all the conflicts between ~/.vimrc mappings and Intellij mappings, and lets you resolve the conflicts by assigning the keys to either IDEA or IdeaVim. Here is the release announcement on twitter.

(Note: I'm not the author, just a satisfied user.)

Answer 2

Update: Yes! See answer below.

Short answer: no.

I've been trying to do this too especially because I have quite a complex .vimrc that I've become used to over the years.

Anyway, there is a workaround (sort of). IdeaVim settings are stored in a file called vim.xml in the .IntelliJIdea10/config/keymaps folder inside your home folder (C:\Users\<user_name> on Windows). You can edit the XML to add stuff that you want. For instance, I added the following lines to save a file by hitting F2 instead of typing :w!:

<action id="SaveAll">
<keyboard-shortcut first-keystroke="F2"/>
</action>

However, I don't see how we can add things like functions or vim settings (which is what I'd typically use a .vimrc for).

P.S. This might explain why a .vimrc is not used (emphasis mine):

For the curious, the plugin is being written without any reference to the VIM source code (except for the regular expression handling). I'm basically using the excellent VIM documentation and VIM itself as a reference to verify correct behavior.
Source: http://ideavim.sourceforge.net/

Answer 3

According to the description in the repository of the plugin (https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim), you can achieve that by create a file "~/.ideavimrc" with its content:

source ~/.vimrc