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I've used vi for 25 years now, starting on a m68k based BSD machine. It's an adequate editor, handy in remote shell sessions and good to know how to use, but I'

I've used vi for 25 years now, starting on a m68k based BSD machine. It's an adequate editor, handy in remote shell sessions and good to know how to use, but I'd MUCH rather use an IDE or a windowed editor with menus and mouse and hotkeys like Sublime. I mean real hotkeys, not emacs. At the end of the day, it takes a certain kind of mind to like vi, and if you're not of that mind, you probably never will be.

psnosignaluk 6y ago
I think it depends heavily on what you're doing. My world is full of YAML/HCL/cnf files, and if I'm writing code, Go, where code is for software that runs from the command line, a daemon, or a no frills API/web service. Atom/VSCode and other IDE's were wasted on me, so I found myself gravitating back to Vim for its ease of use for those use cases. That said, vim-bootstrap did save me effort of getting a pretty solid editor out of Vim without having to think too hard about it.
- heavenlyblue 6y ago
  Of course IDEs are wasted on Go - there’s literally not a single IDE in the world that can find all implementations of an interface in Go.
necrotic_comp 6y ago
My argument isn't that vi/vim/neovim are not superior editors but the editing grammar is a superior way of thinking about text. This grammar can be reasonably replicated in any environment, and confusing the grammar for the editor is what makes people make such claims. This is coming from someone who lives in vim for his daily work, likes it, but always finds annoying sharp edges that are hard to reason about and script away.
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