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What's the state of vim plugins for VS Code?

I would love to use it for Go programming but I'm so used to vim key bindings that it's hard to switch. I can use IntelliJ because their vim plugin is pretty good; anything of similar quality for VS Code?

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Unfortunately it's not on par with actual vim or what you get with Sublime and IntelliJ.

The vscode vim plugin mostly emulates the modality of vim, without support for things like :%s/x/y/ substitutions and other commands.

I'm hoping that with time it will mature and improve. Haven't seen any improvements over the last few months though (I last tried it about 2 or 3 weeks ago).

I've tried three, and VimStyle has been the best by far. The plugin marketplace shows it having a lower number of installs, but that's probably due to it being a bit later to market than the others.

I was just using vs code now with vim bindings and was running into roadblocks.

For example, 23G doesn't go to line 23. d5d doesn't delete 5 lines.

Vim key bindings still have a way to go.

I'm not much of a vim user, but vs code is _amazing_ for programming in Go. I dropped sublime after about 30 seconds of use and have not looked back.

It's pretty poor; expect only the basics of moving. I don't think this is a technical problem though, just a plugin maturity problem.

Sounds like they should use IntelliJ to write a VSC plugin so they can switch to VSC :)

I'd really like to see them use neovim to interpret commands. IIRC there's an Atom plugin for just that.

Yup the only reason I'm currently using Atom over VS Code is because of the VIM bindings, even though pretty much everything else about VSC is better (including feeling more snappy)

Same. Deal breaking for me. Pretty hard to use without ci commands.

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