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Here's a video of some more advanced vim features I threw together. I'd be surprised if you can do this using e.g. vanilla vscode https://www.youtube.com/watch

Here's a video of some more advanced vim features I threw together. I'd be surprised if you can do this using e.g. vanilla vscode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDGG3hK4Bg8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDGG3hK4Bg8 Its a simplified version of a problem from work a while ago where we had to generate ui from lots of csv files. The last dev on it was taking weeks, but with vim I was able to come in and finish the boilerplate instantly. (We were commited to non-dynamic ui at that point, I think I made the right play especially with how we ended up using it). Vim is, in my opinion, inferior to an ide or a good text editor, but if you have it as a plugin you get the best of both worlds and vim suddenly can do... basically anything you can think of. Like here's putting a breakpoint on every line in a file https://imgur.com/SFhlEr7 https://imgur.com/SFhlEr7 The best part of vim in an ide is when you're pair programming and you do something fancy, and your friend says "Wait, go back, howd you do that??"

zoid_ 6y ago
Nice vim demo on youtube, how does the sequenced numbering work? Can vim increment a number without any plugins?
- alwillis 6y ago
  Yes.
- macromaniac 6y ago
  Ya, basically go up, grab number, go down, paste number, increment number, go down, repeat 50 times. Needed for generating xaml that had row and column #s from the csv, interestingly excel could gen the code too relatively quickly.
ricksharp 6y ago
That’s pretty cool. It seemed a bit slow creating the “macro” but pretty cool to see it run through all the lines. The way I would do that in vscode would be with a multi-edit, but it would get iffy at that many lines. I‘ll record a video doing the same for comparison tomorrow. This makes me wish there was a site for recording challenges like this where developers could race using their favorite tools. Vim vs VScode would be an amazing way to learn tips from experts on both sides.

zoid_ 6y ago

Nice vim demo on youtube, how does the sequenced numbering work? Can vim increment a number without any plugins?

alwillis 6y ago
Yes.
macromaniac 6y ago
Ya, basically go up, grab number, go down, paste number, increment number, go down, repeat 50 times. Needed for generating xaml that had row and column #s from the csv, interestingly excel could gen the code too relatively quickly.

ricksharp 6y ago

That’s pretty cool. It seemed a bit slow creating the “macro” but pretty cool to see it run through all the lines. The way I would do that in vscode would be with a multi-edit, but it would get iffy at that many lines. I‘ll record a video doing the same for comparison tomorrow. This makes me wish there was a site for recording challenges like this where developers could race using their favorite tools. Vim vs VScode would be an amazing way to learn tips from experts on both sides.