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Surprised to see that he's gone back to an empty vimrc after years with high customization. To me customization is such a great part of vim that I can't imagine
by rjkennedy98 8y ago
Surprised to see that he's gone back to an empty vimrc after years with high customization. To me customization is such a great part of vim that I can't imagine being without it. For instance, I have shortcuts to find and replace on visual selection. I also have at least 5 plugins in my vimrc that are absolutely necessary for my workflow. Pure vim is nice if you need to occasionally edit files, but if you use it as your prime editor its not enough without customization.
- JoshMnem 8y agoI think it needs some customization for full-time use too. Example: you can toggle comments with things like `:norm i// ` and `:norm 03x`, but with nerdcommenter, you just type `gc` or `gcu`, which requires less attention.
- aaachilless 8y agoMy experience has also been with a decaying amount of customization. As I get better with Vim I learn more and more how to do things in a "Vim-native" manner which I had previously needed plugins for. For example, when I first started using Vim, I relied heavily on NERDTree. These days, netrw works perfectly fine for me.
- kqr 8y agoThis is what I tend to hear from Emacs people too. Not an absence of cpnfiguration, just a surprisingly minimal amount because to them, the defaults start making sense. I have no idea if this is because the human learns the editor, or if it is the editor shaping the thoughts of the human, but it sounds nice and I sort of wish I would get there soon.