Time to talk about why vim is better than emacs and recruit for the temple of vim

  • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I've been using vim for 6 years and I average one new keyboard shortcut a year. Honestly all I think I really need to know is tabs/windows, vertical select, and go to bottom of the file.

    That being said its my main editor and I honestly feel like it makes me a better programmer to not rely on auto-complete.

    Vim bindings in an IDE is a waste of time and never feels quite right. the timings are off which means I fuck up said bindings.

    • communist_princess [she/her]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      I find it amazing that I always seem to learn just another shortcut- there's so many!

      Yeah, my experience with bindings has been very mixed. I will say, VsVim bindings work extremely well, but that has been the best I've experienced and some other IDEs are just super laggy like you've said.

      • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I've only tried vim bindings in VS code so that may be why my opinion is as it is. The work I do tends to not be limited by not using a full ide. Mostly running grep -re <string> in a directory to find references is just as fast as an ide search. I find switching to a mouse often while editing just so frustrating.

        • communist_princess [she/her]
          hexagon
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          4 years ago

          Ah, that makes sense. I didn't like the extension in VS code as much. I have pretty bad carpal tunnel so I also avoid switching to a mouse as much as possible; it's great vim keybindings make this a lot easier.