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I don't use Vim because I have to due to limitations, I use it because it's a joy to use. What would you suggest people use instead?

• BurningFrog 10y ago
  I've been very happy with the IntelliJ, RubyMine, WebStorm family of IDEs. They have similar UIs to all the other modern software I use, doesn't require a learning curve to start typing, and have tons of features the vi/emacs people don't miss because they don't know they exist. I understand that it's hard for old timer to learn a new tool. I do not understand why they're still taught to beginner programmers.
  • Lio 10y ago
    What features do you think we're missing from WebStorm? I've used WebStorm quite a bit in an old job where it's use was mandated by management. What I found was that lots the headline features didn't work for the hairy old JavaScript codebase and certainly didn't work as well as Tern + ctags. E.g. navigating to method definitions fell back to a simple search when dealing with react.js modules. As did refactorings such as rename (provided by Tern). Gulp/webpack/grunt do a better job at workflow tasks IMHO too. I guess there was the debugger but it's not a patch on Chrome's debugger so why use it?
  • htns 10y ago
    IDEs are simply horrible at actually editing text. vi/emacs don't have much of a learning curve either if you use none of their features.
  • flukus 10y ago
    Can any of those modern UI's do windowing as good as vim or emacs?