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This would be fun to play with. There’s a vim plugin for JetBrains but I’ve failed to adopt it after multiple separate attempts because each time I run into collisions with my existing workflow shortcuts which I don’t have the patience to remap mentally and in the config.

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i use the vim plugin for intellij as well and the first time you press an IDE shortcut that happens to be a vim shortcut also, there's a tiny popup that asks you what you want to do: either keep the IDE shortcut or switch to the vim shortcut. maybe this helps!

You can set them in an .ideavimrc, then you don't have to go through it on a new machine.

Another trick I use frequently is to map a shortcut to activate/deactivate the vim plugin on the fly, which allows me to keep using some non-vim shortcut and behavior (especially search or selection) without having to go deep into configuring some vim files.

Set all conflicting shortcuts to prefer ide, then set them up again using nonconflicting leader keys.

Are there particularly many vim shortcuts that use ctrl that are important?

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