Learn vim so you can lord it over the people in your life that even know what a terminal is.
All one of them.
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jesus it's hard to type vim expressions on my phone - it's such a different kind of muscle memory. I don't really have this memorized - I literally think "v-select around parens, shift-s-wrap with curly braces" and my fingers just do it. vim is a language which is ultimately easier on the brain than a bunch of random hotkeys to memorize.
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this selects the current paranthesized expression and wraps it in curly braces. you can replace ( and { with whatever text objects you like. and you can swap a for i if you want to nest instead.
this might require a plugin, though.
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Funny story: I once followed a step by step guide to install a 50 MB program from AUR (in manjaro). The process took about an hour and left me with a 4 GB folder that serves no discernible purpose ::monke-beepboop: I am too traumatized to try again
The main reason I stick with vim is because I just can’t be bothered to install and set up any other IDEs. Sure, VS Code can use vim keybindings, but it also has a million other fiddly things going on that I just don’t want to deal with. I only use VS Code for a handful of very specific things. Vim for everything else
I like that vs code is usually capable of getting my language server stuff going for me, but I use it like it's a vim gui.
I learned emacs, but none of the remote servers I work with ever have it installed so I have to fumble incompetently through vim instead. take that bosses
this is funny because I use emacs with vim keybindings only because M-x "find a command with doctext, including hotkeys" has got to be the best editor interface I've ever used. plus I can just make it do what I want because it's all elisp.
