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What Is Vim?
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Re: What Is Vim?
#102Vim is not only an editing language, but a fast-starting editor with a small-ish native executable, and small run-time memory use. This facet is typically not ported into other editors that have a Vim mode. Vim runs natively inside virtual machines and containers, on resource-constrained embedded systems, and on remotely accessed machines. Another aspect is that Vim can be operated entirely using a terminal emulator,…
The reason I chose Vim over Emacs is simply because of the fact that it's available literally EVERYWHERE. I've honestly never seen a UNIX system which doesn't have Vi or Vim installed by default. Emacs is more hit and miss.
Well. There is nano as well
Re: What Is Vim?
#103> There's a Vim mode in every single mainstream code editor out there. And they’re always frustratingly incomplete and/or buggy. Some motions will be unimplemented, or will behave incorrectly, especially with regards to boundaries around whitespace inclusion or exclusion in a motion. Things you added to Vim and got used to are unavailable, and so your ysa") to put parentheses around the string your cursor is on just…
Can you give example of vim features that you miss in the vscode plugin? Mainly because I likely don't know about them and I would like to add them to my toolkit (the surround thing is not a vim feature, it is a plugin, although the vscode plugin has that too)
It's night and day. Vscode was never meant for the workflow, so even small things like moving to the sidebars and interacting with them using the keyboard is a pain in the ass.
Setting up custom hotkeys is an exercise in patience, and you are constantly fighting with native hotkeys that try to do the same thing.
I tried making vim mode work for years and I always go back to the original because it's where I'm at home
Re: What Is Vim?
#104> There's a Vim mode in every single mainstream code editor out there. And they’re always frustratingly incomplete and/or buggy. Some motions will be unimplemented, or will behave incorrectly, especially with regards to boundaries around whitespace inclusion or exclusion in a motion. Things you added to Vim and got used to are unavailable, and so your ysa") to put parentheses around the string your cursor is on just…
> > There's a Vim mode in every single mainstream code editor out there. Sadly, because of the unchecked proliferation of apps added to the software enterprise, this is not really true. A "modern" software organization probably has something like: Notion, Gdocs, Paper, Slack, Figma, Jira, and Github. If they have vim mode at all, (most don't) they require learning entirely new UI patterns for each app - the sheer was…
And then they hand-wring about silos. The level of slop at software companies is astounding. Let’s drop everything to make sure we’re writing the backend and frontend in the same language, and then half-document everything over Slack, Confluence, README.mds, and GitHub wikis.
Confluence is especially stupid to me when everything happens on GitHub anyway, and most companies do GitOps in one form or another. We can literally colocate documentation next to the same code files it applies to, using a nice terminal friendly markup language. Most programming languages these days allow us to write Markdown documentation inline next to the declaration it applies to. But no, let’s use Atlassian’s bespoke proprietary Enterprise Offering of a rich text editor. Disgusting.
But hey, suits need to sell their enterprise software to somebody.
Re: What Is Vim?
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
The reason I chose Vim over Emacs is simply because of the fact that it's available literally EVERYWHERE. I've honestly never seen a UNIX system which doesn't have Vi or Vim installed by default. Emacs is more hit and miss.
Well. There is nano as well
In the Linux world, sure. The only reason why I've seen nano (rather, pico) on many non-Linux systems was because pine was installed, and that was only on multi-user systems.
Re: What Is Vim?
#106Article mainly seems to talk about vi, not vim. But I guess the author doesn't know where vim is coming from.
Expecting with bad assumption means you want a war.
Re: What Is Vim?
#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
The reason I chose Vim over Emacs is simply because of the fact that it's available literally EVERYWHERE. I've honestly never seen a UNIX system which doesn't have Vi or Vim installed by default. Emacs is more hit and miss.
Because it's part of POSIX ...
Exactly. Well, vi anyway. It's a part of UNIX. Even more reason to choose it.
Re: What Is Vim?
#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
And meanwhile in every thread or article about vim, it is very rare to mention remapping Caps Lock to Escape (or the other lesser IMHO lesser options ) even though one third of user do it. The other two third are deluded tool fetishists that are ready to suffer that their most important key is the furthest away from the home of row because "you get used to it" even if that's just an unfortunate historical accident. I…
LOL this made me chuckle. :) I always remap caps to ctrl because ctrl-[ is an acceptable escape key for me as I like to use other insert mode shortcuts. Eg ctrl-h, ctrl-m, ctrl-k etc. I know some people map to escape/ctrl when held but that usually means installing something like Karabiner.
Well then you should mention it when talking about vim to non-vimmers as not to leave them in the dark with the defaults.
The question is not what solution you found to avoid the Escape key but that you did.
And even though you are probably used to your solution having the most important key in your program be a weird combo is not great imho. And you are missing out on bash/zsh/gdb and other command line vim modes.
Re: What Is Vim?
#109Re: What Is Vim?
#110Vim is not only an editing language, but a fast-starting editor with a small-ish native executable, and small run-time memory use. This facet is typically not ported into other editors that have a Vim mode. Vim runs natively inside virtual machines and containers, on resource-constrained embedded systems, and on remotely accessed machines. Another aspect is that Vim can be operated entirely using a terminal emulator,…
Well said. I use nvim with all kinds of plugins and a custom init.lua, and then I use vim (or nvi) when something goes wrong with my init.lua, and nvim won't start, or when I want to quickly open a file really quickly and not wait the second or so it takes for my nvim setup to load. Likewise, vim lets me do local editing on any system I connect to as there's rarely ever a Unix left that doesn't have vim installed. (B…
Would you mind sharing the python setup? So many options and it’s overwhelming for someone looking to switch from vscode.