Intellij IdeaVim change keys

Question

I would really like to be able to use IdeaVIM but I am unable to figure out where I can set my custom vim key mappings. For example instead of using Esc I would like to use Ctrl-C and instead of using hjkl I like to use wasd.

I have all these already set in my .vimrc but IdeaVIM failed to load them. I can copy them over manually to whatever file is needed but there is no documentation on how to do this.

Answer 1

As of IdeaVim 0.35 (released 2014-05-15), key mappings in ~/.ideavimrc are supported. You can put source ~/.vimrc in that file if you want to include mappings from ~/.vimrc.

Release announcement

VIM-288

(Note: This question could probably be considered a duplicate of this other StackOverflow question.)

Answer 2

IntelliJ 12.1:

1. Go to Settings
2. Select Keymap from the left menu
3. Find Escape under the Editor Actions section and add the Ctrl-C shortcut there. ("Escape" under the "IdeaVim" section didn't work for me)

Following the same steps, but replacing "Escape" with "Exit Insert Mode" only partially worked for me. It exited insert mode correctly but ignored the following keystroke. So typing Ctrl-C,j,j would exit insert but only go up one line instead of two.

Answer 3

I've done this myself, and its pretty easy in IntelliJ 11. I know that in previous versions (9, maybe?) setting up keymap values is significantly different.

In IntelliJ 11 you can do the following:

1. Go to Settings
2. Select Keymap from the left menu
3. Search for Exit Insert Mode on the right side and associate whatever key you want to use, such as CTRL-C

Answer 4

If you like to have Vim plugin installed (I find it very handy for typing) and at the same time have Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V working for copy and paste actions, do the following:

In the IntelliJ Idea, click on File > Setting. On the left pane, expand Editor and click on Vim Emulation.

Here, under the Shortcut column, find Ctrl+C and change it's Handler (under Handler column) to IDE instead of Vim.

Repeat it for Ctrl+V as well and hit Apply and Ok.

Now, you should be able to use the keyboard shortcuts for copy and paste while keeping the Vim Emulator enabled.