Configure IdeaVim in IntelliJ - Getting Started

I have recently gotten into developer productivity tools and wanted to share how to setup IdeaVim in IntelliJ and get started with configuring it.
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0:00 Intro
0:37 Installing IdeaVim
1:08 Some Vim Commands
1:25 Configure IdeaVim shortcuts
2:14 Some Useful IntelliJ Commands
3:07 Setting marks
4:04 Outro
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[@ascourter]

Interested in more Vim content? Let me know! Also, if you have Neovim working with Kotlin halp!

[@danilodjokic5303]

Great video! Big respect for the Mastodon poster!

[@ascourter]

Haha thank you! Great band, I've gotten to see them live a few times and it's always a lot of fun!

[@syzygy8060]

Have you been able to get Visual Block selection to work properly? SHIFT + V to select multiple lines is sluggish or just flat doesn't work. I have been researching it to no avail. Thanks for your video!

[@ascourter]

Visual Block Mode worked for me out of the box on my Mac. I just updated to the latest IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition (2022.3.1) with IdeaVim 2.0.0 and didn't have any issues. Double check you have all the latest updates and that IntelliJ has enough memory allocated to it. Hope this helps and you get is resolved soon!

[@codefiveart]

Do marks go across files?

[@ascourter]

They do! One of my workflows is to set a mark in a test file I am working on and another in the implementation and flip between them

[@p.shpyro]

how to use uppercase U to return the line to its original state?

[@p.shpyro]

for some reason I can't do it in IdeaVim

[@ascourter]

@@p.shpyro try using lowercase u. If that doesn't work, double check your Vim mappings.

[@p.shpyro]

@@ascourter the lowercase u undoes the last change

[@ascourter]

@@p.shpyro Oh I thought that's what you meant by original state. Are you looking for something like git revert? If so you can use Cmd+Option+z to revert a line. Hopefully that helps!

[@p.shpyro]

@@ascourter thanks, sounds interesting, but I'm using Windows

[@muhammedergeshov226]

u didnt even mention ideavimrc, which is gives you more space to custom

[@ascourter]

Wow you're right. I must have discovered ideavimrc after this video. I talk about it in configuring surround in this video: th-cam.com/video/pTVLA62CNqg/w-d-xo.html

[@ascourter]

I'll put a note to come back and talk about ideavimrc in it's own video. Thanks for calling this out!

[@henrik908]

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[@codefiveart]

DONT CALL ME A NERD
jk: VIM is life

[@codefiveart]

I think it’s helpful to plug VIMventures too!

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I forgot to comment with my other account. Whoooops!

[@xxcrypt234]

thanks discord mod lmao