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One thing that continues to impress me is how much bigger than popular belief Vim is. There is a plethora of options you can set in your vimrc file (just now I
by ptn 16y ago
One thing that continues to impress me is how much bigger than popular belief Vim is. There is a plethora of options you can set in your vimrc file (just now I found out about wildignore, and I'm kind of a Vim addict) and there are fucking lot of commands (try [I ), and that's not considering Ex mode.
Customization is way easier than in Emacs, you just unzip an archive in your .vim dir and (99% of the time) it works. I have plugins that do everything I've seen in Emacs that has to do with code, and then some.
Vim is no more the tiny start-quick-edit-close editor that it used to be.
Edit: I don't want to start a holy war here. Emacs is great, and I in fact have it opened right now. It's just that it's supposed to be able to do amazing stuff that Vim can't, I'm saying that that's probably still true, but to a way lesser level than before.
- seigenblues 16y agothank you for making '[I' my hey-i-learned-a-neat-thing-of-the day! (from the doc, [I: Display all lines that contain the keyword under the cursor. Filenames and line numbers are displayed for the found lines. The search starts at the beginning of the file.) sweet!)
- ciupicri 16y agoSpeaking of [I, I prefer Shit-8 (*) or Shit-3 (#).
- sesqu 16y agoYou seem to have impressed a wrong spelling into muscle memory.
- bsergean 16y agoYep. And actually I'm doing Shift-3 more often now as I often want to jump to the definition of something that's more likely to be backward in the file. It's good to know about ? on the same topic instead of / (backward/forward searches).
- fedesilva 16y agoThank you, Sir. This tip made my day.