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I used vim daily for 15 years and I recently switched over to Atom. The reason was that I felt like I was handcuffed to my custom vim configuration. My abilit
by sonicallison 10y ago
I used vim daily for 15 years and I recently switched over to Atom. The reason was that I felt like I was handcuffed to my custom vim configuration. My ability to write code quickly was coupled to my editor configuration. Even vim bindings weren't enough in other editors due to the muscle memory of the custom bindings I'd built up over the years. Within a couple of weeks I was comfortable in Atom. I still miss some of the conveniences, but ultimately I like being able to pick up and start developing anywhere - without pulling in my dotfiles first.
- priomsrb 10y agoIf you find it annoying/difficult to pull in your vim config you may find VimSwitch (http://vimswitch.org http://vimswitch.org) helpful. For example, when I start using a new machine I type: wget https://bit.ly/vimswitch && chmod +x vimswitch ./vimswitch priomsrb This gives me my vim config along with all my plugins. Disclaimer: I am the developer of VimSwitch
- cyphar 10y agoI don't see how that's shorter than using my dotfiles repo. Plus my dotfiles repo also has my zsh, window manager, tmux and terminal configs: % git clone --recursive https://github.com/cyphar/dotfiles.git https://github.com/cyphar/dotfiles.git && cd dotfiles && ./install.py.