Temporary disable IdeaVim to fire off a single IDE action

[AndreasNasman]

Is there a way to temporary disable IdeaVim, wait for an IDE action though a shortcut, and then re-enable IdeaVim? This would be useful for firing off single editor actions, like "Run" through <C-r>, while keeping all conflicting shortcuts set to "Vim" in IdeaVim's settings.

Surfingkeys has this implemented in something called PassThrough mode and I use it all the time. The idea is that you can press p by default to fire off single browser/website shortcuts. E.g., on YouTube you can press p and then f to enter fullscreen in a video, bypassing the search in Surfingkeys which is also trigger with f by default.

[citizenmatt]

I'm afraid there isn't a way to do this. It's been suggested before, a kind of "IDE leader" (VIM-2763), but no attempt has been made at implementing it.

One workaround is that it's possible to create a Vim mapping to an IDE action, such as map <leader>d <Action>(Debug) or map <leader>r <Action>(Run). There's more information here.

[AndreasNasman]

I see, thanks for the information. I think I'll go with a double-leader or similar approach and bind IDE actions to that then (e.g. map <leader><leader>d <Action>(Debug)) or bind a toggle for IdeaVim, so toggle-IDE action-toggle.