Set up the vim mode in IntelliJ to be aware of CamelCase

I work with Java and Scala quite a lot, and last week I've realized that hey maybe I should set up w and b in vim to jump to the next word in CamelCase.

There is this cool vim plugin: https://github.com/chaoren/vim-wordmotion – However, the vim mode in IntelliJ is not your typical vim. It cannot support a vim plugin.

As it turns out, IntelliJ already supports this using ]w and ]b.

All I need to do is to map w to b by configuring: ~/.ideavimrc as follows:

nmap w ]w
nmap b ]b

And that's it!

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