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Tried vscode, but having to use the mouse for many operations put me off, raw text editing was also bad compared to emacs. To be fair this was for just two days

• kstrauser 7y ago
  It's definitely a different paradigm. A couple of notes on keyboarding though: - VS Code has wonderful support for multiple cursors (see https://spin.atomicobject.com/2019/04/04/vscode-multiple-cursors/ https://spin.atomicobject.com/2019/04/04/vscode-multiple-cur... for an example) - VSC has a lot of the same ideas as Emacs, but they're called different things and the keystrokes are different. Cmd-P "terlogremo" <enter> opens the file "terraform/logging/remote_state.tf" in the current project. Ctrl-g 20 <enter> goes to line 20 in the current file. - VSC has a lot of remappable key bindings. Check out https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/keybindings https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/keybindings to get started. Again, Emacs is wonderful. I'm not going to try to talk anyone out of it. But I made myself use VS Code for a week and to adapt to its way of doing things, just as an experiment. By the end of the week, I was 90% as productive as with Emacs and I decided to stick it out. By the end of the second, I was more productive. It's just a really, really good fit for my own personal mental model of how code should be edited.