What does the author mean by "setting up copy/paste? I've been using vim for about 20 years and just do "+y and "+p
Do you have "+y and "+p configured to use the system clipboard? Does that work for you even when running vim over ssh?
Switching from Vim to Intellij
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Re: Switching from Vim to Intellij
#32I recently switched from IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate to VS Code for Go development (side project), because I don't want to pay for it, when I'm no longer a student. With Golang VS Code works great after getting used to it. The Go plugin is not available for the community edition. For Java and Android development I always used (and still use) IDEA because it's feels much better than Eclipse.
You could always just use the early access builds, which are free, and usually don't have any major bugs whatsoever.
Re: Switching from Vim to Intellij
#33Just a warning, jetbrains has a huge marketing team.
I pretty much can't read anything on the internet about jetbrains without thinking about it being questionable.
Re: Switching from Vim to Intellij
#34I was thinking there might be something interesting here. Then I got to this line:
"I started a new job working on a large typescript React project. Vim couldn’t handle opening a TSX file larger than 50 lines without crashing."
Re: Switching from Vim to Intellij
#35I'm still holding out for proper IDEs with embedded neovim at the core. Vim has a few killer apps I can't live without - custom text objects, vim-surround, and vim-sneak.
This is the dream. Vim for text manipulation, surrounded by a legit IDE.
Re: Switching from Vim to Intellij
#36I don't really care how good emacs or vim are for text editing, I always crave a good IDE as text editing is just a small part of writing code. It may be because I'm using java/kotlin, and the stuff a good IDE can do there is much more than in some other languages. But the refactoring, find usages, debugging, building, etc is just so smooth and integrated I've become an IntelliJ fanboy.
Re: Switching from Vim to Intellij
#37I was thinking there might be something interesting here. Then I got to this line: "I started a new job working on a large typescript React project. Vim couldn’t handle opening a TSX file larger than 50 lines without crashing." And I was like LOL WUT? The author's case in this regard woudl be stronger if they helped us understand what was actually going wrong. Bad plugins? Conflicting macros? I'm pretty sure that sim…
Well, the thing about Vim and Emacs is that the users are expected to figure out configuration problems like these. That's not a point in favor of Vim and Emacs.
Re: Switching from Vim to Intellij
#38I have been using Jetbrains IDEs for a long time now, started with PyCharm and made my way through Webstorm to CLion for uni. It's great, but the RAM cost has been too high for me.
I've been slightly switching the opposite way, using vim more and more for smaller stuff and opening the IDE only for larger projects or work stretches. I definitely love the value of vim as a nifty tool, my workflow is noticeably faster.
As an aside, that cheeky :wq is not missed by me at all, :x all the way!
Re: Switching from Vim to Intellij
#39I recently switched from IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate to VS Code for Go development (side project), because I don't want to pay for it, when I'm no longer a student. With Golang VS Code works great after getting used to it. The Go plugin is not available for the community edition. For Java and Android development I always used (and still use) IDEA because it's feels much better than Eclipse.
I went the other way around (from VS Code to IntelliJ), it has some refactoring support and the like, and I have to work and switch between a few languages during an average work day. VS Code is fine for a lot of things, but not as powerful as intellij.
That said, main downside to IntelliJ is IMO speed and input lag in editor windows, mainly in TSX files. I admit it's a complex language and the fact that Prettier runs on save probably isn't helping either, but still. It has trouble resolving imports, some are done automatically, others you have to select a quick fix options for, and sometimes both work and you end up with the import itself getting munged.
Re: Switching from Vim to Intellij
#40you were unhappy with the plugins. learn vim the right way and ditch plugins altogether.