Why I can’t stop using Vim
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Why I can’t stop using Vim
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Re: Why I can’t stop using Vim
#2It's unfortunate that, to me, the title implies there's something wrong with a person who still uses vim and nothing could be further from the truth.
Re: Why I can’t stop using Vim
#3I suffer from the same thing. I've gone even futher: I've customized my tiling wm to work with the vim keybindings; my file manager also works with those keybindings; I use vimperator, a firefox plugin, that has those keybindings...
There's a lot of stuff that I wish were better in vim, but, at the end of the day, it gets my work done better than anything else out there, so I don't have any reason to move away from it. It works amazingly well with tmux (otherwise, I would be using emacs + evil -which I actually use for Clojure-). And I'm pretty excited about neovim :). They are doing an outstanding job.
Re: Why I can’t stop using Vim
#4"/ for searching (really, no other editor has made it this simple)"
Well, it's really esc-/ which is no easier than ctrl-f. Or am I missing something?
Edit:
Same with "1G to go to the top of the file, G to go to the bottom" - esc-1-shift-g vs ctrl-home. Same with ctrl-end.
Re: Why I can’t stop using Vim
#5I don't really understand the comment about etags; if you use ctags in Vim, you'll get the same kind of functionality. If you want something more advanced, Emacs has support for cscope and GNU Global which give you more features. Considering that he's interested in having something better than VimScript and wants org-mode, it seems that Emacs + Evil would really be the best fit for him.
Re: Why I can’t stop using Vim
#6One feature he missed is its not as configurable, and in some situations that is awesome.
So you're doing something weird, manually, but I repeat myself because if it was BAU you'd automate the whole process in puppet or similar. The local vim will work more or less like every other vim out there. Can't really say that with emacs.
If you're traveling somewhere weird, vim is a great travel companion. Not because it can be compiled anywhere (lots of editors can be compiled anywhere) but because it works the same anywhere.
Re: Why I can’t stop using Vim
#7"/ for searching (really, no other editor has made it this simple)" Well, it's really esc-/ which is no easier than ctrl-f. Or am I missing something? Edit: Same with "1G to go to the top of the file, G to go to the bottom" - esc-1-shift-g vs ctrl-home. Same with ctrl-end.
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Re: Why I can’t stop using Vim
#8"/ for searching (really, no other editor has made it this simple)" Well, it's really esc-/ which is no easier than ctrl-f. Or am I missing something? Edit: Same with "1G to go to the top of the file, G to go to the bottom" - esc-1-shift-g vs ctrl-home. Same with ctrl-end.
I don't really agree about "esc". "Normal mode" is the normal mode as the name indicates. That's where you normally start from. It's the actual writing that's two characters more (start insert mode, write, exit). Unless you're just writing new file from scratch in one go, you're likely to be in normal mode a lot of the time.
Also, shift is not needed for the beginning of the file. It's also "gg" for the first line / "G" for the last.
Regarding the ctrl+home/end, I much prefer not using them. Simply because I switch between 4 different keyboards during the week and I don't know where home/end are without looking. (3 of them being laptops with wildly different layouts) gg/G are on the home row. That's much easier.
Re: Why I can’t stop using Vim
#9Funnily enough, I'm going to other way: long time Emacs users, getting closer to switching to evil-mode (Vi emulation in Emacs). Doubt I'll ever leave Emacs though.
As an aside, how does one keep up with Emacs package development? There is lots of stuff that's new to me (e.g. I just found out about company-mode). I'd like to have some way to have this information pushed to me, rather than having to go searching.
Re: Why I can’t stop using Vim
#10"/ for searching (really, no other editor has made it this simple)" Well, it's really esc-/ which is no easier than ctrl-f. Or am I missing something? Edit: Same with "1G to go to the top of the file, G to go to the bottom" - esc-1-shift-g vs ctrl-home. Same with ctrl-end.
Or am I missing something?
Indeed you are. The / command in vim is a motion. This means it can be combined with any command that expects a motion as input. For one example of this, try typing "d/foo" (excluding quotes). This will delete all text from the cursor to the first occurrence of foo.