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selfish question here: Does anybody know how to setup vim so that :! recognises aliases? something like... set shellcmdflag=-O\ expand_aliases\ -c
I'll just come out and say it: my favorite editor is Visual Studio. Sure, it's slow to load and rather fat now, but I'm talking solely about the editing functionality.
With vim, I have to climb an amazing learning curve, regularly practicing all sorts of commands to achieve basic productivity. With VS, any command I don't recall is readily available through the menus. As I access it in the menus, I'm reminded of the keyboard shortcut, so it seems like a much more natural leaning experience to me.
Am I foolish for not believing the vi/vim hype? I understand that it's been around for as long as rocks, and that it's quite handy since it's available everywhere. I use it daily, in fact, but rarely for more than basic editing. I'll just come out and say it: my favorite editor is Visual Studio. Sure, it's slow to load and rather fat now, but I'm talking solely about the editing functionality. With vim, I have to cli…
Personally, I love vim, and have been using it for years and years, and feel hobbled without it, but if you're satisfied with your tool, and don't long for something better, stick with it.
Am I foolish for not believing the vi/vim hype? I understand that it's been around for as long as rocks, and that it's quite handy since it's available everywhere. I use it daily, in fact, but rarely for more than basic editing. I'll just come out and say it: my favorite editor is Visual Studio. Sure, it's slow to load and rather fat now, but I'm talking solely about the editing functionality. With vim, I have to cli…
Am I foolish for not believing the vi/vim hype? I understand that it's been around for as long as rocks, and that it's quite handy since it's available everywhere. I use it daily, in fact, but rarely for more than basic editing. I'll just come out and say it: my favorite editor is Visual Studio. Sure, it's slow to load and rather fat now, but I'm talking solely about the editing functionality. With vim, I have to cli…
If you only code every now and then, so you've got a lot of time between sessions to forget things, and not a whole lot of time in total, then something like Visual Studio which has good 'discoverability' is going to be better for you - as you say, if you get lost just go to the menu and it does a pretty good job of showing you around.
If, however, you are coding full time for a living, spending at least 8 hours a day 5 days a week coding (and let's face it, for most people on HN it's probably more like 12 hours a day 6 days a week), then spending even 2 whole weeks getting to grips with an esoteric but POWERFUL editor like Vim will very quickly pay off in terms of time saved and productivity gained.
Am I foolish for not believing the vi/vim hype? I understand that it's been around for as long as rocks, and that it's quite handy since it's available everywhere. I use it daily, in fact, but rarely for more than basic editing. I'll just come out and say it: my favorite editor is Visual Studio. Sure, it's slow to load and rather fat now, but I'm talking solely about the editing functionality. With vim, I have to cli…
For me, vi/m is like kale -- I know it's very healthy, and I've tried it several times, but it'll be a cold day in hell before I ever eat the damn thing again.
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Am I foolish for not believing the vi/vim hype? I understand that it's been around for as long as rocks, and that it's quite handy since it's available everywhere. I use it daily, in fact, but rarely for more than basic editing. I'll just come out and say it: my favorite editor is Visual Studio. Sure, it's slow to load and rather fat now, but I'm talking solely about the editing functionality. With vim, I have to cli…
Any full featured editor has so many commands, menus are not practical to display them. VS included. So you're either using just using a subset of VS' functionality, or use hotkeys in VS too.
Am I foolish for not believing the vi/vim hype? I understand that it's been around for as long as rocks, and that it's quite handy since it's available everywhere. I use it daily, in fact, but rarely for more than basic editing. I'll just come out and say it: my favorite editor is Visual Studio. Sure, it's slow to load and rather fat now, but I'm talking solely about the editing functionality. With vim, I have to cli…
Am I foolish for not believing the vi/vim hype? I understand that it's been around for as long as rocks, and that it's quite handy since it's available everywhere. I use it daily, in fact, but rarely for more than basic editing. I'll just come out and say it: my favorite editor is Visual Studio. Sure, it's slow to load and rather fat now, but I'm talking solely about the editing functionality. With vim, I have to cli…
Your comments about Vim's learning curve are spot on, and I don't think any vimmer will disagree with you, but the argument they make (which I agree with) is that the cost/benefit ratio is worth it. If you only code every now and then, so you've got a lot of time between sessions to forget things, and not a whole lot of time in total, then something like Visual Studio which has good 'discoverability' is going to be b…
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Your comments about Vim's learning curve are spot on, and I don't think any vimmer will disagree with you, but the argument they make (which I agree with) is that the cost/benefit ratio is worth it. If you only code every now and then, so you've got a lot of time between sessions to forget things, and not a whole lot of time in total, then something like Visual Studio which has good 'discoverability' is going to be b…
Is there anyone out there that has given eclipse/intellij idea a fair chance and decided Vim was better for coding java? It's difficult for me to imagine coding without the built in refactorings it provides and shortcuts like ctrl+n and ctrl+alt+h.