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As a longtime Vim user, I've been pleasantly surprised with the quality of Atom's Vim bindings. Text navigation and pane management bindings mostly work as expe
by segphault 11y ago
As a longtime Vim user, I've been pleasantly surprised with the quality of Atom's Vim bindings. Text navigation and pane management bindings mostly work as expected. You get multiple registers for yanking etc. That's the extent of what you get, however. There's no emulation for the colon prompt, no macros, and it obviously doesn't support any Vim scripting.
I've been happy with Atom after transitioning from Vim, but there are still a few pain points. One that's particular annoying is that Atom's search/replace is very poor compared to the power I'm used to having with :%s.
- bronson 11y agoIf vim-mode doesn't go quite far enough, make sure to try vim-mode-plus. Adreed, I miss %s pretty much every day. Also tabular.vim -- tried a few but haven't found an Atom equivalent yet.
- cname 11y agoI just did %s/a/b and it worked. I think you need to install the ex-mode plugin.
- cname 11y ago> There's no emulation for the colon prompt, ... There's an ex-mode plugin.
- segphault 11y agoThank you for pointing this out. I honestly wasn't aware that there was a separate plugin for this. I'm relieved to have my precious :%s back, but I wish I had known about it earlier! :-)