ideavim - open a file with command mode?

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I'm used to quickly opening a file in vim with :e . Quick and simple, especially with tab filename completion.

However :e doesn't seem to be wired up to open files for ideavim. Typing :e has no response.

Any suggestions?

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 02 '17 at 08:37

You can use :e or :edit or :action OpenFile to open IntelliJ's 'Open File' dialog and then browse to the target file but there is no auto completion available for file paths/names.

There's an open issue against IDEA VIM for this:

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/VIM-268

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 08 '20 at 19:35

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Double tapping shift (at least in intellij's GoLand) allows super fast searching for files in your project and opening them in a new tab. Not exactly the same as what you (and I) are looking for, but handy and fast.

answered Oct 08 '20 at 19:35

JJC

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score 2 · Answer 3 · edited Sep 27 '18 at 20:10

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:sp (alias for :split, splits editor screen horizontally) and :vsp (split vertically) also work in the way glytching described.

It's nutz that autocomplete for filename/paths isn't a feature.

I guess one sort of cool (probably unintended) feature is that you can :e, :sp, whatever just the filename of any file in your entire project. no need for path specifying (ie :sp ../../dir1/filename is unnecessary, just :sp filename works), so that's a possible workaround for the missing autocomplete.

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zzxyz

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answered Sep 27 '18 at 16:55

nah doe

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you can bind them to the 'default' vim behaviour by adding the following 2 lines to your ~/.ideavimrc -> nnoremap n :sp nnoremap v :vsp – Jonas Geiregat Jun 03 '19 at 07:45

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 08 '20 at 13:50

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nnoremap <leader>ff :action GotoFile<CR> works quite well for me.

answered Oct 08 '20 at 13:50

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ideavim - open a file with command mode?

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