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Re: Show HN: Subvim – Vim customized to be like SublimeText

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Post by tomlu »

hack_edu wrote: post #60
andyl wrote: post #41

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yes agreed - JetBrains has IdeaVim, but it is so lame compared to the real thing.

How is the speed? Last time I tried it, about 6 months ago, there was a very noticeable lag when switching between modes. I ran into the maintainer of IdeaVim at PyCon and he said it should be better but my trial period expired and I never got a chance to try it again.

They just released an update a week ago that was supposed to have fixed the problem. It does seem better, but I haven't used it for long enough to properly verify that.

Re: Show HN: Subvim – Vim customized to be like SublimeText

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Post by m_mueller »

eddieplan9 wrote: post #59
h2s wrote: post #55

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I'm a Vim user and this is the only Sublime feature that I think I'd like to see in a future version of core Vim. Another comment called it "syntactic sugar for macros"[1] and that's true. Multicursor functionality allows you to avoid repetition in so many cases that it's worthy of inclusion as a feature in its own right. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5504507

I think what we already have in vim is even better: just use dot (.) to repeat the last action. So you make some edits in your first cursor position, move to the next cursor position and press dot to repeat the edit.

No offence, but that's the typical kind of comment coming from someone who's never actually tried multicursor functionality. The thing about multicursor is that it's seamlessly integrated not only with editor commands, but also with commands that create multicursors.

Examples:

- Cmd-Shift-L creates a cursor at the end of every line of the selected area.

- Find all, integrated with Regex, creates multicursors on every match.

- Once you get multicursors, you can still add some manually by holding down Cmd and double clicking at a cursor position.

After you get multicursors, you can then move them around using standard editor commands - that's the real power of this construct, since I'm able to match something much simpler than I actually want to edit (for example end/beginning of line), move to the meat, edit.

Re: Show HN: Subvim – Vim customized to be like SublimeText

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Post by weaksauce »

caioariede wrote: post #35
weaksauce wrote: post #12

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visual selection replacement is good too. :' s/this/to that/g I think vim does that automatically when you have a selection active and hit :

Note that this will replace over the entirely lines even if it's a blockwise selection. So you might consider using :' s/\%Vthis/to that/g

It might be a setting or something but it definitely doesn't do that on my machine or the linux machine I have in the cloud.

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Re: Show HN: Subvim – Vim customized to be like SublimeText

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Post by adamors »

jQueryIsAwesome wrote: post #52
farslan wrote: post #33

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Because i love Vim :) Then there was Sublime that really changed the way of editing in some way. I first tried vintage and make it vim-like. However it was slow and not much was I wanted. Thus finally creates this project. For Vim users who like Sublime.

ST3 will be released soon and is supposedly going go fully support all vim commands in vintage mode with better performance.

You mean the vintage mode that comes with ST?

Because I didn't see anything being announced regarding vintage mode. Some guys forked the ST vintage package but that's 3rd party.

Re: Show HN: Subvim – Vim customized to be like SublimeText

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Post by JulianWasTaken »

phreeza wrote: post #20

slightly off topic, but I think a thing that is sorely needed is a kind of libvim that provides proper vim functionality, which can then be linke

I once started work on https://github.com/Julian/PyVi which was meant to be this, but other things caught my interest so I abandoned it for a bit. Every once in a while I do a bit more work on it though.

It's a decent idea. I'm sure there might be something else that's further along than I got.

Re: Show HN: Subvim – Vim customized to be like SublimeText

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Post by codygman »

JulianWasTaken wrote: post #65
phreeza wrote: post #20

slightly off topic, but I think a thing that is sorely needed is a kind of libvim that provides proper vim functionality, which can then be linke

I once started work on https://github.com/Julian/PyVi which was meant to be this, but other things caught my interest so I abandoned it for a bit. Every once in a while I do a bit more work on it though. It's a decent idea. I'm sure there might be something else that's further along than I got.

Oh, it is so tempting to port this to Go.

Re: Show HN: Subvim – Vim customized to be like SublimeText

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Post by efnx »

vitalique wrote: post #44
efnx wrote: post #30

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This would be easily done by recording a macro and replaying it numlines/2-1 times. Possibly if starting on the first line: q,a,j,$,i, odd,esc,j,q,4@a qa // start recording into 'a' register j // move down $ // move last char on line i // insert mode odd // esc // back to command mode j // move down 4@a // replay macro 4 times (if there are 8 more lines)

Yep, using macros are the way to go for a task like this one. I'd use 'A' here to jump into the insert mode at the end of line though (commenting because '$i' part made me realize that I had probably never used '$' for movement at all).

That's a good point, '$i' starts inserting just before the last character, whereas with 'A' you'd save the '$i' but have to delete the quote. One cat with many ways to skin it!

Re: Show HN: Subvim – Vim customized to be like SublimeText

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Post by tomlu »

hack_edu wrote: post #60
andyl wrote: post #41

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yes agreed - JetBrains has IdeaVim, but it is so lame compared to the real thing.

How is the speed? Last time I tried it, about 6 months ago, there was a very noticeable lag when switching between modes. I ran into the maintainer of IdeaVim at PyCon and he said it should be better but my trial period expired and I never got a chance to try it again.

Hi, in case you're still interested I've had a chance to try it a bit more. Performance is much, much better, especially on a retina display. And they've even fixed the dot command with autocomplete.

It's still not the greatest vim emulator, but it's much more usable now IMO.

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