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Anyone tried this and can give some insight in comparison with ViEmu from http://www.viemu.com/ ?

I use this daily in VS2010, and have used ViEmu in previous VS versions.

Generally, I like it, but it can be a bit sluggish at times. The only plugin I have running is JSLint, so I suspect it's VSVim causing the problems (though it only generally bogs down when I leave VS2010 for a bit). The keybindings work as one would expect. As I mentioned in a different thread, I wish it could break out of the tabbed window convention of VS and use buffers.

ViEmu did feel a bit faster (and was less prone to crashing).

What version are you using? Prior to 1.2 there was a nasty perf bug with :hlsearch that caused it to be sluggish with 1) very large files or 2) a good number of files opened. The bug is mostly fixed in 1.2 but there are still a couple of corner cases. Those are addressed in 1.3 which will be released sometime next week. A beta drop is available here

https://github.com/downloads/jaredpar/VsVim/VsVim-1.2-Beta2....

As for crashes I'd love to hear about any you found. Feel free to send me email (hacker news alias at microsoft.com) or post an issue on github.

https://github.com/jaredpar/VsVim/issues

I haven't tried VsVim, but I can say that the guy who writes ViEmu is a really nice guy who is extremely responsive to suggestions.

I can chime in as I just purchased ViEmu. It's really wonderful to have all the Vim bindings present in studio (and the rest of Office!). I haven't noticed any speed issues and I haven't noticed bugs (yet), but I've only been using now daily for two weeks and I haven't installed any plugins for it.

Yes. I have been a happy ViEmu customer for three or four years now. It's basically perfect. Integrates with Visual Assist, too. Very worth the $99.

I've used ViEmu for 5 years. I'm very satisfied with it. Don't have any reason to try VsVim, but it's nice to know there's more than one option now.

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