Jetbrains / Intellij plugin

[noahfraiture]

Hello,

For work I'm forced to work with jetbrains products, and I have to admit : they offer lot of great features, especially when you have to work on big project. However I still despise the lack of helix keybinding. And I think it's a feeling that is shared by a lot of people.

My point is the following : would someone be ready to start a helix plugin for jetbrains ? I want to help and contribute, but it's a time consumming task and making plugins for jetbrains product clearly isn't easy, the development environment is pretty bad.
So if someone is motived and has some (even very little) experience in development of jetbrains plugins, I would be thrilled to help !

I already looked at ideavim to see if it would be possible to start from there and make a fork. The code is 151618 lines long. This is seems very overkill.

I also found this remapping https://www.reddit.com/r/HelixEditor/comments/14aqztf/helix_in_intellij/ but it clearly isn't close to helix motion experience, there's no mi(, gw, space mode or things like that.

What are your thoughts ?

[fominok]

I have an ongoing effort I've started recently, basics are covered already; my aim is to reuse existing carets and that might be not a 1:1 emulation, but better than nothing

I can't give any precise estimations as some quirks happen here and there and I've never written an idea plugin before, but I have a steady progress, maybe a prototype I can start to use myself will be done in a following week or two

P.s. I don't know java or kotlin, I'm doing it in Clojure, so I don't really expect contributions 😅

[noahfraiture]

I don't know if I'll be able to contribute but can you share your repo ?

[fominok]

need to brush it a little and yes, I'll post it there

[fominok]

Hey, here is the repo: https://github.com/fominok/ideahelix

It is far from a state to release it on the marketplace, but some basics seem to work