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I've been using Vim more and more in the past few months, but I still use VS Code primarily for a lot of my work. At work, I do a lot of Node/TS stuff, so VS Co

by jjice 6y ago

I've been using Vim more and more in the past few months, but I still use VS Code primarily for a lot of my work. At work, I do a lot of Node/TS stuff, so VS Code just offers a whole wealth of tools that I'm already familiar with. I'm sure I could pimp out Vim to do it just as well, if not better, but I still enjoy VS Code. Where Vim shines for me is for creating and editing small files. I use vim for my journal, quick edits, and data wrangling when I need to get something into a nicer form (most often scraping links to pipe somewhere else). It's a great interface for editing temporary data. Also, knowing Vim if you ever need to SSH into a remote machine is a must in my eyes. Nano feels sluggish once you get a feel for Vim, and, as the article mentions, you can fine Vim almost everywhere you go.

hannofcart 6y ago
VSCode is very customisable. So you can make it behave exactly like your vim (+plugins) setup behaves.
- RMPR 6y ago
  Not quite, or maybe I'm the one not doing things the right way, when I tried to make VsCode behave like Spacemacs there was always these annoying things where you'll have the feeling that you're better off using the mouse: for example when you're editing, you can't close the sidebar without focusing it and firing Ctrl+E, I eventually discovered an emulation made by a bunch of people[0], it was great, but for things like Git, I still needed the mouse whereas in Spacemacs you can use the excellent Magit which is entirely keyboard focused. 1: https://github.com/VSpaceCode/VSpaceCode https://github.com/VSpaceCode/VSpaceCode
- patrec 6y ago
  Not true. VSCode lacks some very fundamental functionality, like proper (non-linear) undo and the vim plugin basically does not support any ex commands (other than s, which works different as well). Having said that, I think the VSCode vim plugin gives a quite good experience overall.
krebs_liebhaber 6y ago
Why not use one of the many publicly-available add-ons that add Vim bindings to VS Code? Pretty much every IDE has at least one of those - as an Emacs person, I envy it.

by jjice 6y ago

hannofcart 6y ago

VSCode is very customisable. So you can make it behave exactly like your vim (+plugins) setup behaves.

RMPR 6y ago
Not quite, or maybe I'm the one not doing things the right way, when I tried to make VsCode behave like Spacemacs there was always these annoying things where you'll have the feeling that you're better off using the mouse: for example when you're editing, you can't close the sidebar without focusing it and firing Ctrl+E, I eventually discovered an emulation made by a bunch of people[0], it was great, but for things like Git, I still needed the mouse whereas in Spacemacs you can use the excellent Magit which is entirely keyboard focused. 1: https://github.com/VSpaceCode/VSpaceCode https://github.com/VSpaceCode/VSpaceCode
patrec 6y ago
Not true. VSCode lacks some very fundamental functionality, like proper (non-linear) undo and the vim plugin basically does not support any ex commands (other than s, which works different as well). Having said that, I think the VSCode vim plugin gives a quite good experience overall.

krebs_liebhaber 6y ago

Why not use one of the many publicly-available add-ons that add Vim bindings to VS Code? Pretty much every IDE has at least one of those - as an Emacs person, I envy it.