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Re: Why I use vim

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Post by [deleted] »

alwillis wrote: post #10
wyclif wrote: post #4

This is helpful, particularly the resources listed, but I would advise against using someone else's config starting out. Continually editing my own .vimrc for the first few months was a big part of learning. If you use someone else's dotfiles right from the start, there's a good chance you'll end up believing some behaviour is default when it really isn't, and that's going to mess you up.

Agreed. There's a great post Vim: revisited with a minimal .vimrc file that I used after having to start over learning Vim because of using someone else's .vimrc I didn't need or fully understand: http://mislav.uniqpath.com/2011/12/vim-revisited/

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Re: Why I use vim

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Post by lelele »

wyclif wrote: post #4

This is helpful, particularly the resources listed, but I would advise against using someone else's config starting out. Continually editing my own .vimrc for the first few months was a big part of learning. If you use someone else's dotfiles right from the start, there's a good chance you'll end up believing some behaviour is default when it really isn't, and that's going to mess you up.

Well, when I started using Emacs, I copied a lot of snippets of code which I didn't understand, and it didn't hamper my learning process. Quite the contrary, it sped it up because I was able to override some annoying behaviors before learning how to do it.

Re: Why I use vim

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Post by noveltyaccount »

I used to use Vim, and then I got a job after college working with .NET (this was in 2003). Since then I've used Visual Studio as my primary IDE. Its features (or that of Eclipse) seem to (pardon the pun) eclipse the crap out of Vim. The contextual information you get in VS by hovering your mouse on any variable, the built-in debugging, etc. Studio isn't a just text editor, it actually understands the semantics of your programming language, it helps you write better code faster.

Re: Why I use vim

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Post by jwallaceparker »

adam_albrecht wrote: post #17

I love Vim and have been a happy MacVim user for a while now. But I just started using Vico and I am really liking it. It's definitely missing a lot of the features that Vim has accrued over time, but the native UI and polish of Vico has me using it full time now. http://www.vicoapp.com/

Thanks for the recommendation.

I love testing out text editors. I've been migrating back and forth between TextMate 2 and Sublime Text 2.

Looks like Vico will now be part of the rotation.

Re: Why I use vim

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Post by oinksoft »

adam_albrecht wrote: post #17

I love Vim and have been a happy MacVim user for a while now. But I just started using Vico and I am really liking it. It's definitely missing a lot of the features that Vim has accrued over time, but the native UI and polish of Vico has me using it full time now. http://www.vicoapp.com/

Hm, I used GVim/MacVim for a few years and was very comfortable with it, but the more I was doing heavy editing on remote machines, or even Linux VMs on my local machines, the more GVim felt like a crutch.

I now will only use terminal vim and I can't imagine going back. It's very nice being able to have the same editing experience as long as I can SSH in. And sshfs etc are not solutions due to the need for shell integration and the problem of latency on write.

An added benefit is that all of my heavy applications live in the console, making it much easier to keep things organized, especially when I am using screen.

Re: Why I use vim

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Post by rodh257 »

noveltyaccount wrote: post #14

I used to use Vim, and then I got a job after college working with .NET (this was in 2003). Since then I've used Visual Studio as my primary IDE. Its features (or that of Eclipse) seem to (pardon the pun) eclipse the crap out of Vim. The contextual information you get in VS by hovering your mouse on any variable, the built-in debugging, etc. Studio isn't a just text editor, it actually understands the semantics of yo…

You can get VsVim to use vim like editing inside of Visual Studio, which may give you the best of both worlds?
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