.vimrc for IntelliJ Idea's vim plugin

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I am using the vim plugin for IntelliJ Idea.
Where should I place the .vimrc for that plugin.
Using Windows XP

Sorry friend - the IntelliJ vim plugin is just an emulator - it doesn't use your vimrc — Shane C. Mason, Oct 09 '11 at 03:34

score 53 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 19 '19 at 22:55

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The latest version of the plugin will read settings from a file named .ideavimrc in the home directory.

On *nix, the home directory can be accessed at ~.

On Windows, you can use the %HOMEPATH% environment variable. (Normally, "C:\Users\<User Name>" or "C:\Documents and Settings\<User Name>", depending on your Windows version.)

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answered Jun 25 '14 at 17:44

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or _ideavimrc on windows, in keeping with vim's conventions. – xdhmoore Aug 22 '17 at 18:24

score 11 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 09 '15 at 12:52

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If you rename your .vimrc to _ideavimrc in your ~ directory (/Users/ in windows)

Underscore is used instead of the . in windows for vim apparently

IntelliJ will honour it

Was tearing my hair out for a while getting this to work.

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score 7 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 20 '17 at 21:20

On my mac i simply ran ln -s "$HOME/.vimrc" "$HOME/.ideavimrc" to create a symlink so IntelliJ would use the same .vimrc as my standard vim.

My .vimrc is very simple. However, if there is config that is incompatible between IntelliJ and vim then you might have issues with this approach.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 29 '10 at 13:54

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echo %homepath%

gives me my "home directory" on Windows XP,
where I need to put my .vimrc.

answered Jun 29 '10 at 13:54

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Does this really work? I don't think my intellij vim plugin doesn't use a .vimrc. – easel Jul 14 '11 at 19:15
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This doesn't work. IntelliJ Idea Vim does not support `.vimrc` file. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5585687/is-there-a-way-to-get-ideavim-to-honor-the-mappings-from-my-vimrc-file. Who voted this up? – Sanghyun Lee Feb 11 '14 at 07:04

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