VsVim

This seems to be a part of a nascent trend in IDEs. There's vrapper and eclim for eclipse, Vintage for Sublime Text, and now this as well.<p>I've seen a lot of arguments about how people don't use IDEs because vim/emacs are better, and I always felt they were misguided. I see the feature sets of vim/emacs and your common IDE as nearly disjoint sets, and I couldn't be happier to see the good parts of the two editors being joined with the power of the IDE.

I use this plugin everyday.<p>It's got some serious bugs that make my heart stop.<p>The biggest one is Undo. Looks like the plugin keeps it's own list of modifications that were performed. So when sometimes I press "u" to undo the latest change - Visual Studio gets suspended for a minute or two, and all my changes that I did since I opened Visual Studio (could be a day or a week) are pretty much gone. The work around is to close the file without saving.

My development work is a polyglot split across Linux, Mac and Windows/.NET projects. I also use both Vim and Vim keyboard bindings (in other editors) on Unix.<p>Whilst I prefer *nix, when I have to use Visual Studio, I use the VsVim plugin, and it's a real pleasure to be able to seamlessly move between platforms and development environments, IDEs and text editors in this way.<p>Not only do I love VsVim, but it significantly reduces the friction of using Visual Studio, and even adds some enjoyment to coding on that platform. VsVim is F# under the hood too (which shouldn't matter to the user, but it _is_ kinda cool).<p>Thoroughly recommended!

Putting the standard key bindings for vi is one thing, but without being able to customize it like vim, it's almost worthless to me. The custom bindings I have set are there to do common operations, and they become an integral part of my vim.

Anyone tried this and can give some insight in comparison with ViEmu from <a href="http://www.viemu.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.viemu.com/</a> ?

This is very off-topic, but I am turned off by the URL. Is Microsoft obsessed with UUID? First, they have you use UUID to reference COM components. And now in URL? Next you will see them ask their own employees to use UUID as email addresses.

If there's anyone out there comfortable in both the way of vi and the way of Emacs, does this feel better than the Emacs emulation [1]? I'd love to be able to work with text more efficiently in Visual Studio, but the Emacs emulation feels only half way there. [1] <a href="http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/09dc58c4-6f47-413a-9176-742be7463f92" rel="nofollow">http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/09dc58c4-6f47-...</a>

It looks like a non-trivial portion of this is F#, so if you're interested in that, it might be worth poking around the github repo.

If anyone is interested, i have a solarized color set fork for VsVim: <a href="https://github.com/jugglingnutcase/visualstudio-colors-solarized" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jugglingnutcase/visualstudio-colors-solar...</a><p>i recently screwed up the breakpoints though... now they're pink.

there was a similiar plugin for eclipse around, called eclim.