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I've never really understood why you'd want a constant visual indication of changed lines all the time, especially with something bright/colourful on the side. The only time I find that useful is during reviews before committing. Otherwise it seems like a distraction. Vim is great for minimalism. Likewise I keep Nerdtree closed until I need it and it opens on the right. While VSCode, old Textmate, etc has it always v…
This is partly a matter of taste, and since I don't find it distracting at all, there's no downside for me. But as far as value added, I find it super convenient. I like that gitgutter gives a quick indication of what chunks I've been working on and lets me quickly navigate between them (without having to remember to mark them/hit ^O) by hitting ]c or [c (I think these are defaults, but I might have overridden them).…
However, recently I took a liking to Visual Studio Code (with VIM bindings of course). Yes I know, it's terribly bloated and consumes RAM like nobody's business, but the Browser DOM arguably is the successor of terminal emulation in terms of ubiquitous interfaces, and VSC does use the additional power quite smartly. There are graphical hints and tweaks which are next to impossible to achieve in a terminal emulation.
I'll still use VIM all the time, especially remotely. But VSC does provide similar extensibility. I somehow wish there was something like VSC, based on web/electron, but more like a Texteditor, less like an IDE. And preferably not controlled by a huge corporation.
There's only one thing I need to improve my VIM experience: a way to set style options (and search paths) for each git workspace. I've yet to find a non-hairy way to do this. Help!
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Nah, I've seen people downloading their preferred configs right to the production server, because they, understandably, feel more comfy with that. But, it may not be for everyone. Where I work, we are in the process of reaching some compliance targets, and all this downloading unknown stuff from unknown servers is out the window. For the best, I think.
It's unfortunate that in this day and age we still have people who directly access and touch a production server at all, ever. There is zero need.
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I bind my CAPSLOCK to ECAPE that way instead of the escape key killing my hand my left pinky finger can just naturally get me out of insert mode by hitting CAPSLOCK.
Do yourself a favor and figure out how to bind caps lock to press for escape, hold for control. I use a programmable keyboard (web search for QMK if you're interested) but there are software options too. You'll never look back and you'll be baffled how you ever lived without it.
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I use a bunch of plugins and I've never had trouble remembering the defaults in the odd case I'm unable to use my own config. I don't get why the top comment on all vim threads is always recommending using poor defaults your whole life so you can avoid learning to configure it or avoid a second of confusion when you're ssh'd somewhere. Maybe everyone else besides me spends all their time ssh'd into random servers.
Nah, I've seen people downloading their preferred configs right to the production server, because they, understandably, feel more comfy with that. But, it may not be for everyone. Where I work, we are in the process of reaching some compliance targets, and all this downloading unknown stuff from unknown servers is out the window. For the best, I think.
Incidentally one can mount a remote filesystem via ssh and edit the files as if they were local with any editor.
With Emacs you can skip a step and directly point your editor to the remote file via tramp.
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It's unfortunate that in this day and age we still have people who directly access and touch a production server at all, ever. There is zero need.
This sounds nice until you have to debug a crazy error that only happens in production.
Making 1% of 1/10 of 1% more effecient seems like a curious optimization.
To anyone who hasn't tried it - http://www.vimgolf.com/ is probably the quickest and most fun way to take your skills to the next level.
https://vimvalley.com/ isn't cheap, but you get what you pay for.
I started my programming career determined to be a vim guru and do all my programming with vim. This was misguided and after a year of wasted productivity and wasted time fiddling with plugs and dealing with broken stuff (surely by my own hand) I switched to a professional IDE and I rapidly became a much better developer. I use vim constantly now but in it's most plain vanilla form, for the purpose of editing files w…
You can install IdeaVim in PyCharm. I've been using IdeaVim with IntelliJ for 6 years and could never go back to non-vim style editing. This plugin provides the best of both worlds.