IdeaVim is a Vim emulation plug-in for IDEs based on the IntelliJ IDEA platform.
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IdeaVim in Pycharm randomly terminates search popup
I use IdeaVim in PyCharm Community Edition with IdeaVim in Ubuntu 14.04. There are several commands that summon a search popup, e.g. 'Navigate File...', 'Find Action...', etc. For some reason, these popups randomly close after typing a few…

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IdeaVIM: cannot copy and paste multi time
I have this scenario. For example, I have 3 lines of text with following content:
first_line
second_line
third_line
I want to copy text first_line to replace second_line and third_line. So after copy and replace, new content should…

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Duplicate html tag with VIM
In this video Erik Rasmussen edit his code from like this:
foo
to this:
foo
foo
How is it posible? All I know is vatyP but it not produces the same result.

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Completely disable mouse selection in IDEA/Android Studio
I'm using the IdeaVim plugin for Android Studio, which introduces vim selection semantics and insert/normal mode. When there is a selection, something akin to visual mode is used. However, it is possible to select text while inside either of these…

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IntelliJ idea vim plugin edit auto insert mode
ideaVim plugin automatically flips from Normal Mode to Insert mode for the following scenario:
Mistaken key strokes. (This was the single reason I loved vim plugin, because I needn't worry about changing my code mistakenly.)
I tried playing…

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Quick flashing prompt when executing ideavim keymap in Webstorm
When I execute a keymap defined in my .ideavim such as this:
nnoremap gf :action GotoFile
the popup flashes quickly and goes away. (This occurs 95% of the time and once in awhile it stays up as expected. I tried many combinations of…

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How can I have the vim keybindings in normal mode and the standard pycharm keybindings in insert mode possible?
I love to use the vim keybindings to navigate text, to move, delete and change it. But when I'm in Insert-Mode I'd like to have the normal IDE-keybindings like CNTRL-V, CNTRL-P, CNTRL-C, etc. back.
Is it possible to configure IdeaVim that way? I…

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Map s to file structure popup, works but immediately disappears
I've mapped s to :action FileStructurePopup in my .ideavimrc file. The mapping works but the popup is immediately cancelled. How can I get it to stay?

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Set up Ctrl-V in Ideavim
I use ideavim plugin, but I do not use any vim hotkey with Ctrl. Recently, I found out a great multicursor analog is Ctrl+V in vim. But I want to use Ctrl+V as a paste command in Idea. Could I somehow reassign Ctrl+V to be visual block by typing…

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IdeaVIM colon commands don't execute on enter
I just downloaded IdeaVIM for Android Studio. I type : and it brings me to the colon command input, but when I press Enter nothing happens and the cursor stays at the input, not executing the command.

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the behavior of IntelliJ Idea Vim is something strange
I use Ctrl+k for exiting Insert mode.
So, I did the key mapping on IntelliJ.
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it seems work well. But, something is wrong.
When I type Ctrl+k, it looks exited insert mode.
but after the input ctrl+k, next input is not…

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IdeaVim: Enable Navigation Keys in ReadOnly Files?
How can Vim navigation keys be enabled in IntelliJ while viewing ReadOnly files?
For example, you navigate to the source code of a function which is in a jar file. Then the h, j, k, l, and /find keys are ignored.
How can these vim navigation keys be…

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Intellij IdeaVim: use right mouse button drag to move cursor up and down
I like to zip through lengthy source files quickly. I find ctrl-e/y too jumpy. Smooth scrolling isn't work well enough. Scroll wheel is too slow.
Way back when I made my own vi clone and what I did there is I made the right mouse button dragging…

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Is there a way to get ideavim to work in the IntelliJ database console?
When I activate the ideavim plugin in IntelliJ while editing files I get Vim emulation that I expect. When I activate it within a database console window, it changes the cursor to the block cursor but none of the Vim emulation is active. Is there…

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IdeaVim / PyCharm mis-handles 0 key
Have an issue where any time I use my zero key in Normal mode it moves the cursor to the beginning of the line. This is the correct functionality when I simply hit 0, but not when I'm in the middle of other commands.
For instance:
10j (move cursor…

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