Text editors with "vim mode"?

Question

I've been looking at trying to learn vim for a while now,

I've come across ViEmu through stackoverflow, 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?

Is there such a plugin for eclipse? (link please!)
What about Notepad++?

Other "programming" text editors?

Please list all the ones that you know

Answer 1

I'm using viPlugin for Eclipse. Unfortunately, it's not free, but it works pretty well for all the basic Vim commands.

Answer 2

I primarily use:

• Visual Studio with ViEmu
• NetBeans with jVi

Answer 3

It seems the eclim plugin can help you embed the real GVim into Eclipse.

Answer 4

Slickedit has extremely good vim emulation. One of the soundest purchases I have ever made.

Answer 5

Editra has vim mode

Answer 6

Komodo Edit has a reasonably good Vi emulation mode. It's also very good for code sense etc.. and supports a plethora of languages. Linux and Windows... and damn, I should be on commission with these guys... wait a minute, it's freeware... Damn! Damn! Damn!

Anyway... Good editor, Linux & Windows, Free, Vi (and Emacs) emulation.

Answer 7

Qt Creator has a "vim mode" for editing, but it currently lacks some abilities; as well, I feel handicapped without the settings I have in my .vimrc.

Answer 8

Emacs has viper-mode, which offers multiple levels of Vi emulation (from more Vi-like to more Emacs-like). The manual describes it as follows:

 Viper Is a Package for Emacs Rebels;
 it is a VI Plan for Emacs Rescue
 and/or a venomous VI PERil.

Answer 9

for Firefox users :

• setup It's all text! to use external vim - it will let you edit those textboxes in vim
• Vimperator is also quite cool.

Answer 10

Yzis a vi-like editor inspired by vim.

Yzis aims to be a powerful, fast editor with all of Vim's features and hopefully, at some point, more. (quoted from Yzis' website)

Answer 11

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.

Answer 12

There is also freeware Vimplugin for Eclipse — it embeds Vim into Eclipse, but you lose all navigation and code-completion functionality that Eclipse provides, so its usefulness is disputable.

Answer 13

Check out excellent Vrapper plugin for Eclipse.

Vrapper is an eclipse plugin which acts as a wrapper for eclipse text editors to provide a Vim-like input scheme for moving around and editing text.

Unlike other plugins which embed Vim in Eclipse, Vrapper imitates the behaviour of Vim while still using whatever editor you have opened in the workbench. The goal is to have the comfort and ease which comes with the different modes, complex commands and count/operator/motion combinations which are the key features behind editing with Vim, while preserving the powerful features of the different Eclipse text editors, like code generation and refactoring.

Vrapper tries to offer Eclipse users the best of both worlds.

Answer 14

http://texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ViFamily

Answer 15

viplugin for Eclipse is worth the money.

Answer 16

http://texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ViFamily includes a long list of vi clones and a long list of vi implementations. This second list includes perhaps a dozen text editors with "Vim modes".