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Re: Ask HN: Is Vim still worth learning?

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> There are plugins that, so far as I know, can do a lot of what an IDE can do I want to add that the converse is true too: there are a lot of plugins (for IDEs) that do a lot of what Vim can do. I personally use the neovim integration for VSCode and it's really nice.

Have you used the real vim a lot in the past? More than a few days of trying it out, I mean. Probably you replied around the same time as I edited in: >> Try it for one month and see if you want to go back to standard editors. Odds are, you'll want the best of both worlds, start looking for vim key binding plugins in IDEs, and end up like me with missing vim after all because those keybind plugins are usually not so…

The VSCode neovim plugin is really good because under the hood it's just using neovim to manage the buffer, so everything that works on Neovim works on VSCode. It's true that some plugins are suboptimal but the VSCode one (and the one for Sublime when I used it) are really good.

Re: Ask HN: Is Vim still worth learning?

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That holds on paper but I'm not sure I agree. I've used Notepad++, Sublime Text, Atom, and Visual Studio Code. Each of these has introduced game changing improvements (ST has popularized the command palette, Atom allowed high quality, well integrated, and easy to write extensions, VSCode improved upon Atom with way better performance, brought LSP, and drastically improved the remote dev experience). They have in comm…

Agree with improvements available in other editors. But disagree with this: > I never think "damn, typing 3dd would be so much faster than selecting 3 lines and hitting delete" I actually do think that all the time, and get annoyed when I have to take the second or so to move away from the keyboard to find the mouse/trackpad. Need to delete three lines, starting with line 54 at the top of your screen? 54gg 3dd I woul…

This. Only thing is I dont even "think" about "3dd" and just do it. Great thing about VIM (and possibly emacs too) is that all the things the others improved can be brought to VIM and usually is. Writing plugins is O(1) no?
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