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Does anyone have suggestions of what worked to help learn mor Vim commands?
I respect Vim, I've seen it used with impressive speed, BUT I am so used to command-s to save, that I don't feel ready to :w enter all the time. VS Code is powerful, and learning the keyboard shortcuts for that are getting better every day (command-shift-p format-selection enter).
nmap ,w :w
In the end, vim doesn't stop you from defining key bindings to improve your workflow.
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It's hard to sense how much of vi is in vim, having only ever used vim. But I've never been very happy with vim, even though I've used it for 15 years. Maybe I need to find a "vim, the good parts (aka vi)" book.
use spacemacs with vim emulation :-)
A couple of examples. In Spacemacs, the screen regularly goes blank for a while. Or if I have a file open in Spacemacs, close its window, then rename it in the OS, then reopen it in Spacemacs (by double-clicking it in Finder) it reopens it with it's old name. I'm sure there's a way to avoid this, but the fact that it happens in the first place is the issue.
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As a long time vim user, I’ve tried VSCode a few times and I cannot for the life of me figure out what all the hype is about. Can anyone who is proficient with it explain the philosophy behind it and what makes it so great? This is a sincere question, not a rhetorical one.
I use vscode daily for everything, from note taking to programming. Here are my pros and cons. Pros: - Has plugins for anything.You're doing C++, just install C++ plugin and you're good to go. Want vim key bindings there's a plugin for that as well. I use a plugin that can scrape competitive coding websites and automatically create tests for a problem. - Git, snippets, etc all modern IDE features built-in. - It is al…
sharing part of OP's sentiment. in fact, i flipped the table a few weeks back because an extension downloaded a tool to my system and guess what? the installation got stuck. and guess what? my text editor hung!
all i wanted was to edit text. i didn't even ask for an extension. i was presented with one that supposedly would make my text editing experience better.
tiring...
Has eye-tracking been explored for improved code editing beyond Vim? Vim does away with the hand-travel delays, but many of these ninja keystroke moves to navigate code are just what your eyes do already (but not all, such as the search function).
Has eye-tracking been explored for improved code editing beyond Vim? Vim does away with the hand-travel delays, but many of these ninja keystroke moves to navigate code are just what your eyes do already (but not all, such as the search function).
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As a long time vim user, I’ve tried VSCode a few times and I cannot for the life of me figure out what all the hype is about. Can anyone who is proficient with it explain the philosophy behind it and what makes it so great? This is a sincere question, not a rhetorical one.
It's Emacs for Javascript people - a good thing since Emacs is moribund and most programmers are at least a little bit Javascript people. A highly programmable, cross-platform editor with zillions of extensions/modes that support all sorts of languages and environments. People complain about its resource requirements and performance, just like they did with Emacs. Vi(m) users are the natural enemy of VSCode, just lik…
Why do you think that Vim users were/are wrong about everything?
Researched a bit for last few days about IDE and Vim seems to be the only viable long term option. I like Atom but it crashes all the time, VSCode doesn't feel clean to me. IntelliJ is the best but expensive. Only option I think is vim or Emacs. I loved the time I spent with Emacs last time, but gave up quick. I will learn to use Vim this time.
I have a couple friends that swear by Sublime Text. It costs money but its not terribly expensive, and super fast. Its vim plugin is a bit lacking though so it wasn't that usable for me.
Vim is a well-sharpened pocket knife, a precision tool that excels at editing text interactively. It’s interesting to me the different models for tools that address similar problems. I used to use vim, and the chords of keystrokes are still fresh in my mind, even though I switched to emacs years ago. And now I use vanilla emacs —but that model is totally different, it’s an okay text editor but an excellent customizab…
1) Learning Vim increased my efficiency across multiple machines, and not just my dev machine.
2) It's extremely lightweight. Note: you still need to be careful with plugins!
3) Modal editing is easier on the wrists. Most of my time as a developer is spent navigating through code (whether editing or browsing), and Vim's normal mode keybindings are much less modifier-based.