Good luck in getting your issue addressed!

The tool looks nice, I’ll probably promote it to my “Nothing but vi” friends.

But my point is that I do not want to study a new IDE tricks, but just a bit of help from the vendors in keeping good old stuff available in all environments.

vi/vim editing will provide all the regular and the advanced editing functionality, plus a lot more that most editors won’t provide, using an interface based on keystrokes, which will allow you to record and play macros, perform complex file-wide substitutions and manipulations, repeat commands, etc… in all of the three environments. Plus you have vim for all major platforms and vim (or regular vi) is available in most if not all Unix installations. A lot of editing power accessible in more environments than you’ll probably need.

After I release my next product, I’m planning an in-depth article for non-vi users that explains the real advantages of vi/vim editing in a clear way, which are the reason many people stick to it even 30 years after vi was designed.

ViEmu is a commercial product and the price tag might look a bit steep at first, but I certainly believe it’s well worth the price if you can use vi/vim and value productivity. If you’re getting properly paid for your development work, the price should be fair. But of course, I’m completely biased.

Max, I understand your concerns with the price. To understand it, you need to keep two things in mind: the first is that I can only afford to work in it as a commercial offering, as it’s the first product of my small software startup – I would have to work on something else if I didn’t charge properly for it. And the second is that the price tag necessarily reflects the small audience size for such a product.

Boris, if you’d like to learn vi/vim, which I’d encourage you too, and even if you don’t plan on using ViEmu, I believe the vi/vim cheat sheet and tutorial I prepared are probably the best way to get started. It’s not *as* hard as it seems at first, and the benefits are numerous and long-lasting.

I have no idea how to correspond the bindings across all three of your IDEs, though.