Text editors with vim mode?

Question

I've come across ViEmu, and I read the very motivating article: Why, oh WHY, do those #?@! nutheads use vi?

Anyway, I've come to like the command mode in vim, specially the motions, and I also like the idea behind ViEmu, which is to bring "vim mode" into a typical text editor.

What other editors have a similar "vim mode" or a plugin that provides the functionality?

Answer 1

I am a huge fan of vim myself, so whenever I am trying a new IDE, I am instantly looking for a vim plugin. Here is a short list of plugins that I found:

• Atom - vim-mode
• Eclipse - Vrapper / Vimplugin / Eclim
• Idea / WebStorm / pyCharm / RubyMine / CLion / PhpStorm / AppCode - IdeaVim
• NetBeans - jVi
• Notepad++ - ViSimulator
• Visual Studio - ViEmu / vsvim
• Xcode - Xvim

Also, a couple of editors/IDEs have built-in vim mode:

• AbiWord word processor supports vi keybindings.
• Kate text editor includes a vi mode.
• QtCreator has FakeVim mode.
• Sublime Text has vintage mode.
• Even Emacs has viper-mode!
• bash, gdb, mysql-client, and many other applications use the GNU Readline library to interact with the user. Readline includes a vi mode.
• In Bourne-style shells like ksh and zsh, type set -o vi to enable vi-like command-line editing.
• ViEmu works also in Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft SQL Server and Word!

Bonus - web browsers! Really, try it, it is awesome!

• Firefox - vimperator
• Chromium/Chrome - cvim / vimium
• Sadly, all of vi plugins for Opera seem outdated.

Please let me know if I forgot something, I would be happy to extend the list. For a more extensive list (sometimes sadly outdated), please see this article.

Answer 2

It's worth noting that there's a lot more to vi than keybindings. As this blog post notes, there isn't any IDE plugin that emulates all the features vi.