The other takeaway from this is that if (like me) you prefer a GUI / X style editor, sublime text is a pretty good contender.
Personally, I really like Sublime, it was one of the best returns on investment for me (even buying it twice).
Why I Still Use Vim
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Re: Why I Still Use Vim
#12Or use sublime text. Seems to fare well.
Re: Why I Still Use Vim
#13What I take from this is to continue using Sublime...
Re: Why I Still Use Vim
#14> I’ve primarily stuck with [vim] because it’s an extensible editor that doesn’t hog all the resources and kill my machines.
Exactly, BUT ... Vim has a non-mainstream shortcut interface, which I've always thought is an unfortunate caveat. So over the years I've actually managed to massage Vim into behaving like a 'normal' editor. It fits into a plugin if you're interested: https://github.com/tombh/novim-mode
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#15These kinds of comparisons always seemed a bit silly to me. It's like complaining that opening a 6MB file in windows took over 3GB on my system! (ignoring that most of that is the OS getting ready to do other things, and enabling the OS to do things other than opening and reading a 6MB file). Yes, Atom isn't the most resource friendly editor out there, and nobody is claiming it is. But it is one of the more capable e…
>which many of it's target demographic use
So true, I almost posted a joke as a comment, only to delete it before actually commmiting a crime.
>Vim won't show me 4 panes with ES2016 in one...
I'm pretty sure most of this is doable though (not a Vim user)
Re: Why I Still Use Vim
#16These kinds of comparisons always seemed a bit silly to me. It's like complaining that opening a 6MB file in windows took over 3GB on my system! (ignoring that most of that is the OS getting ready to do other things, and enabling the OS to do things other than opening and reading a 6MB file). Yes, Atom isn't the most resource friendly editor out there, and nobody is claiming it is. But it is one of the more capable e…
Except that sublime does all of that, supports plugins written in python, and doesn't screen tear, and leaves me some RAM for other things
Re: Why I Still Use Vim
#17I actually care more about power usage than anything else these days. If it takes 1GB of memory to do that then so be it; that's cool (literally)
/EDIT this comment refers to the general case not Atom in particular
Re: Why I Still Use Vim
#18These kinds of comparisons always seemed a bit silly to me. It's like complaining that opening a 6MB file in windows took over 3GB on my system! (ignoring that most of that is the OS getting ready to do other things, and enabling the OS to do things other than opening and reading a 6MB file). Yes, Atom isn't the most resource friendly editor out there, and nobody is claiming it is. But it is one of the more capable e…
That'd be a fair comment if atom was using 12Mb, but 3GB???
Re: Why I Still Use Vim
#19I've tried Atom - quickly went back to Sublime from my speed tests. I had a similar speed issues with https://hyper.is vs iTerm. These new tools look pretty but performance matters, especially for your most-used tools.
Re: Why I Still Use Vim
#20These kinds of comparisons always seemed a bit silly to me. It's like complaining that opening a 6MB file in windows took over 3GB on my system! (ignoring that most of that is the OS getting ready to do other things, and enabling the OS to do things other than opening and reading a 6MB file). Yes, Atom isn't the most resource friendly editor out there, and nobody is claiming it is. But it is one of the more capable e…
>which many of it's target demographic use So true, I almost posted a joke as a comment, only to delete it before actually commmiting a crime. >Vim won't show me 4 panes with ES2016 in one... I'm pretty sure most of this is doable though (not a Vim user)
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