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You can easily incorporate the most widely used vim commands and shortcuts (including window splitting) in IntelliJ/PyCharm by installing their vim plugin.

You are then left with choosing between the comfort of using the subset of vim that isn't available through the plugin, and the comfort of using all the IDE features that aren't available in vim. I believe that for most people the latter will be far more productive.

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It's possible, it also might be a matter of preference. I find it hard to become productive with other editors, although I appreciate some features there that are hard to achieve in terminal Vim. It might be true that for most people it makes sense to user other editors. It's also possible that VSCode or Intellij make you productive immediately, but if you decide to learn and configure Vim, with certain time and effort you might beat that productivity. The latter seems to be true in my case, but I don't want to claim that it's a universal thing.

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