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> [balloons] are not interactive as far as I know I mean you use completion, right? That's interaction? In insert mode or , same to scroll through options. > [tabbar is] still restricted to terminal characters (you could probably do something fancy with sixel, Wait... you want it as an image? I mean... sure? You could, but I'm really curious why you would want that. I told you this was one option, but there are other…
> you use completion, right? That's interaction? Very basic one. What I mean is once you get the completion, how do you interact with that view - let's say you want to dig into a type that's displayed. Then you want to get to the longer docs for that type. There's nothing out there that does it as far as I know. > Wait... you want it as an image? Yes, the asciiart minimaps are cool, but they really don't have enough…
> Very basic one
> That's an extra thing to think about.
%s/foo/bar/g
bufdo %s/foo/bar/g
And it's not very hard to remember things like bufdo, windo, tabdo because I'm already familiar with a buffer, tab, and window. It's not an extra item in memory for me, so no, I don't see. It's just as easy and clear as if I clicked a button that said "do you all files"
> Search and replace with language and context awareness
> Vim doesn't do those things though.
I mean there's a lot of stuff that people that have been using vim for years don't know but is in vimtutor. I mean how many people don't know about basic things like ci, competition (including line or file path), or ? How many people use :wq lol
I just like vim man. You don't have to, that's okay. I like that I can do marks. I love the powerful substitution system. I mean I can just write the signatures of my init functions and automatically create the class variables. Or deal with weird situations like this time some Python code had its documentation above the function and I could just bufdo a string replace to turn those into proper docstrings. I love that I can write macros on the fly, trivially, and can apply them generously. I love registers and how powerful they are. I mean I can write the command I want on a line, push it into a register, and then just call it with @. It's trivial to add to my rc if I like it enough. I love that it's really easy to drop in a local config file that sets the standards for the project I'm working on when it differs from my defaults and I can even share that with everyone! I really like the fact that I can have my editor on just about every nix machine and I don't even need to install it. I can work effectively on a novel machine disconnected from the internet.
I mean my love for vim isn't really just the navigation. But even in the navigation I'm constantly using bindings that most vim plugins don't have. It's not easier for me to use another system and add vim keybindings because that's only a very small portion of vim. I'd rather have all of vim and a fuck ton more of my resources.