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Not allowed to reply to your post, so replying here. No, not built-in. They both have plugins, and allow you to set the key shortcut to whatever you please. T

by Skinney 11y ago

Not allowed to reply to your post, so replying here. No, not built-in. They both have plugins, and allow you to set the key shortcut to whatever you please. That they are not built-in really doesn't matter though. All these editors revolve around plugins, and it's common practice to save your preferences on github or the like so that it's easy to use the same settings and plugins on every machine.

jhasse 11y ago
> Not allowed to reply to your post, so replying here. I think you have to wait a few minutes, then it gets activated. > No, not built-in. They both have plugins, and allow you to set the key shortcut to whatever you please. That's too complicated for me. Last time I've tried to set up vim and emacs to my liking it was a mess: A lot of copying and pasting around random code, changing configuration files I didn't understand, ...
- Skinney 11y ago
  In all respect, but you are presumably a software developer. If someone approached you saying that language x is a mess, as they've copy-pasted around random code and changed configuration files they didn't understand. Would you accept that as valid criticism or told the person to actually learn their tools? Granted, Atom, Sublime, VSCode etc. are easier to start with because they expose customization through JSON files instead of a custom programming language. But if someone where to tell you that they didn't understand how multiple cursors worked in VSCode, you would tell them to learn their tools and send them a link to the relevant page of the documentation (if that). If you know your editor, adding functionality like multiple cursors is easy. The greatest strengths of extensible lightweight editors like VSCode and Emacs, is that such functionality is only a package away.
  - jhasse 11y ago
    > they didn't understand how multiple cursors worked in VSCode, you would tell them to learn their tools and send them a link to the relevant page of the documentation (if that). No that's the thing: I would tell them to press Ctrl+D, simple as that. Multiple cursors in Sublime Text, Atom and VSCode are intuitive and it's the first time in an editor that I actually use them.

by Skinney 11y ago

jhasse 11y ago

> Not allowed to reply to your post, so replying here. I think you have to wait a few minutes, then it gets activated. > No, not built-in. They both have plugins, and allow you to set the key shortcut to whatever you please. That's too complicated for me. Last time I've tried to set up vim and emacs to my liking it was a mess: A lot of copying and pasting around random code, changing configuration files I didn't understand, ...

Skinney 11y ago
In all respect, but you are presumably a software developer. If someone approached you saying that language x is a mess, as they've copy-pasted around random code and changed configuration files they didn't understand. Would you accept that as valid criticism or told the person to actually learn their tools? Granted, Atom, Sublime, VSCode etc. are easier to start with because they expose customization through JSON files instead of a custom programming language. But if someone where to tell you that they didn't understand how multiple cursors worked in VSCode, you would tell them to learn their tools and send them a link to the relevant page of the documentation (if that). If you know your editor, adding functionality like multiple cursors is easy. The greatest strengths of extensible lightweight editors like VSCode and Emacs, is that such functionality is only a package away.
- jhasse 11y ago
  > they didn't understand how multiple cursors worked in VSCode, you would tell them to learn their tools and send them a link to the relevant page of the documentation (if that). No that's the thing: I would tell them to press Ctrl+D, simple as that. Multiple cursors in Sublime Text, Atom and VSCode are intuitive and it's the first time in an editor that I actually use them.