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[–] 110 points 2 years ago* (5 children)
  • [–] 63 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    The best thing about Vim is that despite having all the features of a modern IDE it starts in 0.1s and you can start editing right away while the code data is loading asynchronously.

    The worst thing about Vim is that... just kidding, there's nothing bad about it.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago*

    People meme about β€œq!” but it is super helpful to have that extra step, because sometimes your fingers are moving faster than your brain is. That quick switch back-n-forth vim - gcc - ./a.out loop and my probably ADHD mean that vim saying, β€œhey, remember you haven’t saved this yet” is a godsend.

    You are right about the best part about vim - you can work as fast you type.

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  • [–] 54 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I remapped the power button of my computer to whatever that series of keypresses is that exits vim.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (6 children)
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    [–] 28 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Do you mean Neovim?

    Surely you aren't comparing a flat text editor to an IDE that has language server support, debuggers and refactoring tools?

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  • [–] 49 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Vim and VS Code are both text editors that can become IDEs with plugins. You can use vim with language servers if you want, as there are plugins for it.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I only use butterfly flaps that move magnetic needles next to my HDD.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I like VSCodium, a vscode build without ms telemetry and such

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    [–] 21 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    HAHAHAHA I know the secret passcode to escape!

    Incidentally, it's ctrl+]. But I remap it to 'kj', and somehow have never typed 'blackjack' in all my years of using Vim!

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago

    Wouldn't the one that ops you into telemetry be the trap?

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago*

    I used to know a developer who wrote all his code in Notepad. This was around 2005 or 6. We had just starting to replace our legacy ASP code with ASP.Net, which he was determined to do in Notepad. I was gone before I could see how that worked out.

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    [–] 14 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    The trap is that you should use vi. Don't wuss out.

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    [–] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    vim was such an unimaginable improvement over nano for doing stuff on linux servers. Having an in-shell-editor search-and-replace function alone is worth everything you have to do to learn vim.

    And after I was comfortable around vim because of all the "training" on servers, I just switched to vim fulltime. No more GUI editor for me!

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    [–] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    You will be tempted to think that by learning how to use (neo)VIM your coding skills will magically improve tenfold.

    It won't

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (18 children)

    vscodium slightly better than vscode tho.

    honestly all ide's are rubbish - especially electron ones. for a gui editor, i've just gone back to sublime text and have never been happier.

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    [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Though I use neovim as a text editor, Zed is my IDE of choice. I think it’s a good alternative for most people that don’t like Electron-based applications.

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