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I use IDEs when it makes sense but do often times find myself wishing their text editor behaved like VIM.
by IE6 9y ago
I use IDEs when it makes sense but do often times find myself wishing their text editor behaved like VIM.
- beached_whale 9y agoThere are plugins for many to add a vim mode. At least for Intelij based ones(Pycharm, IntelliJ, Clion) and Visual Studio
- mavdi 9y agoThey are normally very buggy and lack the ability to install vim extensions.
- virmundi 9y agoDo you need those extensions in an IDE? I have little experience with VIM, but from watching VIM evangelists, I find they load it with extensions that make into an IDE. Sure the keyboard shortcuts could be helpful, but a lot of extensions are the IDE.
- beached_whale 9y agoI used the vim extension for Clion often
- jcrben 9y agohttps://github.com/lunixbochs/ActualVim https://github.com/lunixbochs/ActualVim gives you neovim inside Sublime Text, altho I haven't tried it. I couldn't stand IdeaVim, the one for the Jetbrains IntelliJ platform - felt very buggy. Such as when you open a modal and it remains in Normal mode so you can't enter text. Currently using https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim when using VSCode which is better but still got some rough edges. Despite a fair bit of use and study - mostly using neovim - I feel that I haven't got as much from vim as I'd expected or hoped. Switching from Normal to Insert mode - even when you get good at the one-time Normal mode commands - doesn't always elegant. There's all sorts of configurations and plugins that try to plug the gaps, but it's such a huge effort to assemble them all. For example, just installed https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors today to attempt get the elegant multiple selection of modern text editors.
- chillee 9y agoI've been contributing to VSCodeVim quite a bit recently, so I'd love to hear if you have any suggestions for us to improve on.