IdeaVim is a Vim emulation plug-in for IDEs based on the IntelliJ IDEA platform.
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Delete text in between HTML tags in IdeaVim
Delete text in between HTML tags in vim? provides a wonderful, succint answer for VIM that doesn't seem to work in IdeaVim. Anyone know how to achieve this in IntelliJ IdeaVim?

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IntelliJ-IDEA Eclipse Ctrl+O equivalent that is better than Alt+7
In Eclipse I could hit Ctrl+O and get a popup which I could use to get an overview of everything in the current class, pick an entry, and jump to it.
In idea, there is Alt+7, but I have a few issues with it. First, the keyboard doesn't seem to put…

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IdeaVIm only works in src not Jar files
For some reason, I can use IdeaVim to navigate my source text just fine; however, when I jump to a java file (locked) in my external library, all Vim shortcuts are turned off somehow. How can I get them to continue functioning? I am using Intellij…

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Android Studio key repeat
The latest Android Studio update seems to have changed the key repeat behavior for letters. For example, I cannot hold down i and have the character repeated. Instead, it wants to pop up a suggestion to insert a foreign language character. This is a…

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what is ideavim equivalent of "ctrl+w" Select successively increasing code blocks
what is the equivalent of ctrl+w that I use in intellij when using ideavim?
(and select successively decreasing...)

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configuring Ideavim (phpstorm plugin)
I want to reconfigure certain keys in the ideavim plugin for phpstorm. Specifcally change 0 to act like ^ in normal mode.
Is this possible? I tried looking at the keymaps settings for vim, but it doesn't have an action called go to beginning of…

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How can I prevent popup from getting closed by the escape key in IntelliJ IDEA/PhpStorm/Pycharm/Rubymine?
-- UPDATE --
the new version of ideaVim plugin fixed this issue already.
I'm using PhpStorm under ubuntu with ideaVim plugin.
One thing annoying me is when I edit in the popup windows such as show diff editor I need to press Escape to switch to Vim…

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Map Alt-j to in IdeaVim
I am now really used to send escape to Vim in my terminals using the Alt(Meta) key + a movement (like 'j'). Using any "Vim plugin" in IDEs becomes a pain, because they usually do not forward the alt keypress to the emulator plugin.
For example, I…

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What is the action command name activated by mouse hovering over some piece of code?
I would like to create a vim shortcut with the action activated by hovering the mouse over some piece of code (compiler errors to get its description, suggestions, functions to get its parameters etc).
Is there any mapped action to it? I was not…

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Mapping language specific chars with modifiers in ideavim
I am having a difficult time mapping some of my language specific keys (danish keys æøå) in ideavim. It works fine when i map without modifies eg. nmap æ / but when I try to map with alt eg. nmap { that does not get picked up. I can use Ctrl+V…

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Pycharm does not recognize my ideavimrc (Windows)
I am using the community version of pycharm on Windows 10 with vim. To do so I have installed IdeaVim. I have renamed my .vimrc file from my linux PC into .ideavimrc (I also tried _ideavimrc) and stored it in the directory C:\Users
When…

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Go to openfile Intellij ideavim
Normally, I can select opened file in Intellij using this shortcut Alt+Shift+1+1. But I want to remapping shortcut with Ideavim. Any idea about that?

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Cannot escape Insert Mode in ideaVim
I am unable to use the key to leave insert mode and return to Normal Mode. This has 'apparently' happened without any known change, but could be related to a not-so-recent bump of my IntelliJ version (IntelliJIdea2019.1 ->…

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IdeaVim in PhpStorm - Sidebar "Notches" for Search Instances?
If you do a standard PhpStorm/IntelliJ search Ctrl+F, you will see instances represented by yellow "notches" on the right hand side scroll bar:
but when I do the same search using IdeaVim's search /, I don't get the yellow notches:
Does anyone…

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Binding to action in ideavim insert mode
I would like to be able to map actions to key bindings when in insert mode. However using the code here just inserts the text :action EditorCompleteStatement into the buffer.
inoremap :action EditorCompleteStatement
Why is this not…

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