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I'll just come out and say it: my favorite editor is Visual Studio Not to be overly pedantic, but your favorite IDE is Visual Studio, and you just happen to us
by ldh 16y ago
I'll just come out and say it: my favorite editor is Visual Studio
Not to be overly pedantic, but your favorite IDE is Visual Studio, and you just happen to use whatever crappy editor component comes bundled with it.
If we could have full-blown Vim embedded inside IDEs instead of good-but-incomplete plugins which merely give you some of the key mappings, I'd be elated and couldn't see why anyone would stick with the Notepad-style editor which is the default.
- kd5bjo 16y agoI never tried to make it work, but the vim distribution for Windows used to include a COM object which could be used as your Visual Studio editor.
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- wahnfrieden 16y agoI haven't used it myself, but ViEmu for VS looks unexpectedly comprehensive and worth checking out if you need to use VS.
- mmavnn 16y agovsvim also provides a lot of Vim goodness in VS. The main lacking feature (for me, personally) is macro support.
- Derbasti 16y agoI use Visual Studio with ViEmu and Visual Assist X. While I really hated Visual Studio (and still do), this combination of tools really makes it worthwhile. It is an awesome marriage of a mediocre IDE, some substantial refinements to make it usable, and a phenomenal text editor. The nice thing about ViEmu is that is extremely full-featured. It even reads my entire .vimrc with all my customizations and personal magic! So, I guess what I want to say is that instead of deciding between using an IDE and a text editor, you should actually use both! Real progress lies in synthesis, not analysis!