Switching from Vim to Intellij

Re:Switching from Vim to Intellij by dotancohen on Thursday November 05, 2020 @09:24PM (#25004273)

I've recently been picking up Emacs for org-mode. Evil does not support settings such as `:set nu` or a thousand other settings that I use once in a blue moon but expect to just work. Even `:wq` attempts to close all buffers, `:e` doesn't open files as expected, I could go on.

IdeaVIM get 90% of VIM right, and some things wrong (such as `u` for undo also undoing movements). Evil gets 95% of VIM right. But I have high hopes for NeoVIM allowing an actual first-class VIM implementation to be embedded, not copied, into an IDE or even Emacs.

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Re:Switching from Vim to Intellij by theCodeStig on Friday November 06, 2020 @01:12AM (#25005366)

Can you expand on that?

For me, :wq closes the current buffer. For me, :e works as expected.

There might be a built in alternative to :set nu. How do you expect that to work?

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Re:Switching from Vim to Intellij by dotancohen on Friday November 06, 2020 @09:22AM (#25007743)

For me, `:wq` saves the current file and attempts to close all buffers, though thankfully asks if other unsaved buffers should be saved before closing.

I was wrong about `:e`, it does work.

Instead of `:set nu` I'm using Alt-X UpArrow+ to find `display-line-numbers-mode`, which does what it says. But there are other settings which I have on muscle memory macro that do not work, such as `:set wrap!` which I use often with my portrait monitor.

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