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What Is Vim?
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Re: What Is Vim?
#82imagine you would remove the functionality that Vim mode in VSCode gives you from Neovim. imagine you what?
I think the author is not a native-English speaker.
They mean
> imagine if you remove the functionality that Vim mode in VSCode gives you from Neovim.
Re: What Is Vim?
#83How do you explain "w" and "wq" to save and quit the editor with "verb adjective object" model? These two and "i" is all I remember about vi. Or is vi a different thing from vim and this model doesn't apply?
I don't understand why people keep talking about :wq when :x has been a thing for so long now
Because :wq is sufficient and I need :w and :q! anyway
Re: What Is Vim?
#84Vim is not only an editing language, but a fast-starting editor with a small-ish native executable, and small run-time memory use. This facet is typically not ported into other editors that have a Vim mode. Vim runs natively inside virtual machines and containers, on resource-constrained embedded systems, and on remotely accessed machines. Another aspect is that Vim can be operated entirely using a terminal emulator,…
The reason I chose Vim over Emacs is simply because of the fact that it's available literally EVERYWHERE. I've honestly never seen a UNIX system which doesn't have Vi or Vim installed by default. Emacs is more hit and miss.
Re: What Is Vim?
#85I was in a PyCon presentation about the Python bytecode when I came up with the idea that vim editing commands are a bytecode for executing text manipulation.
Re: What Is Vim?
#86> There's a Vim mode in every single mainstream code editor out there. And they’re always frustratingly incomplete and/or buggy. Some motions will be unimplemented, or will behave incorrectly, especially with regards to boundaries around whitespace inclusion or exclusion in a motion. Things you added to Vim and got used to are unavailable, and so your ysa") to put parentheses around the string your cursor is on just…
> > There's a Vim mode in every single mainstream code editor out there.
Sadly, because of the unchecked proliferation of apps added to the software enterprise, this is not really true. A "modern" software organization probably has something like: Notion, Gdocs, Paper, Slack, Figma, Jira, and Github. If they have vim mode at all, (most don't) they require learning entirely new UI patterns for each app - the sheer waste is astounding. I'd love to be able to say "I've got a professional editing environment set up that's highly efficient for me to write both code and prose. Can I, like, use my tools and edit text?". But the answer is always "No - we must scatter our thoughts as far and wide using as many tools as possible!" The lack of a workable vim mode makes the problem worse.
Re: What Is Vim?
#87imagine you would remove the functionality that Vim mode in VSCode gives you from Neovim. imagine you what?
I think the author is not a native-English speaker. They mean > imagine if you remove the functionality that Vim mode in VSCode gives you from Neovim.
It still doesnt make sense. If you remove vim mode from neovim you have... Nothing?
Re: What Is Vim?
#88Vim is not only an editing language, but a fast-starting editor with a small-ish native executable, and small run-time memory use. This facet is typically not ported into other editors that have a Vim mode. Vim runs natively inside virtual machines and containers, on resource-constrained embedded systems, and on remotely accessed machines. Another aspect is that Vim can be operated entirely using a terminal emulator,…
The reason I chose Vim over Emacs is simply because of the fact that it's available literally EVERYWHERE. I've honestly never seen a UNIX system which doesn't have Vi or Vim installed by default. Emacs is more hit and miss.
Because it's part of POSIX ...
Re: What Is Vim?
#89Vim is not only an editing language, but a fast-starting editor with a small-ish native executable, and small run-time memory use. This facet is typically not ported into other editors that have a Vim mode. Vim runs natively inside virtual machines and containers, on resource-constrained embedded systems, and on remotely accessed machines. Another aspect is that Vim can be operated entirely using a terminal emulator,…
The reason I chose Vim over Emacs is simply because of the fact that it's available literally EVERYWHERE. I've honestly never seen a UNIX system which doesn't have Vi or Vim installed by default. Emacs is more hit and miss.
> literally EVERYWHERE
Chrome and youtube also support some of the common vi/vim navigation keys.
Re: What Is Vim?
#90vim is an operating system that allows also editing files