Text editors with vim mode?

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  • Sadly, all of vi plugins for Opera seem outdated.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 For a more extensive list (sometimes sadly outdated), please see this article.

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