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Disclaimer: I've not used ViEmu. As I understand it, VsVim is a much younger project that is open source, rapidly progressing and has set itself the goal of be
by mmavnn 16y ago
Disclaimer: I've not used ViEmu.
As I understand it, VsVim is a much younger project that is open source, rapidly progressing and has set itself the goal of being good at the things it does and not trying to expand those too fast.
ViEmu (not having used it!) seems to try and replace more of the VS functionality, while VsVim seems to try and be "vim for the editing, leave as much of the rest intact as possible."
- city41 16y agoviemu just makes the VS editor act like vim. It doesn't replace much, if any, existing functionality. Both viemu and vsvim have the problem of vim key commands and VS key commands clashing quite a bit.
- roel_v 16y agoHmm I'm not sure, there isn't anything I can think of that it 'replaces' in VS; only the editor parts, obviously. I mean you can still Ctrl-F to search in a file, but a vimmer would use /<regex> of course. But well if vsvim works... I'll keep an eye on that project. (as a side note, I wonder what motivates people to write plugins like this for fun. If the rage-inducing experience that is writing addins for Office is any indication of what it's like to write plugins for Visual Studio, I'd rather burn off my nipples with a hot poker than writing one of them in my spare time). Anyway what I love about ViEmu is how over the years it has managed to incorporate things to give it the true Vim experience that VS couldn't do, like search highlighting, easy 'search for word under cursor' etc. (maybe newer versions of VS have these things build in, I've been using ViEmu and Visual Assist since VS 2003 so I'm not 100% sure any more of what comes from these plugins or what is 'native' functionality :) ).