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Considering the popularity of Vim and Emacs I sometimes wonder if I'm missing out by not using them over my preferred editor, but whenever people describe their

by 0-_-0 6y ago

Considering the popularity of Vim and Emacs I sometimes wonder if I'm missing out by not using them over my preferred editor, but whenever people describe their reasons for using them in lists like this, I see nothing that I would consider an advantage over my current setup, and then just forget about the whole thing.

npsimons 6y ago
> whenever people describe their reasons for using them in lists like this, I see nothing that I would consider an advantage over my current setup, and then just forget about the whole thing. TBF, you've just described exactly how us emacs and vim users feel every time someone says "why aren't you using shiny new editor X? It has feature Y!"
im3w1l 6y ago
As an emacs user who has used a few IDE's in my time, some nice things you might be missing (but which you may not care enough about to switch): Easily recording and playing back macros. Delete-rectangle / insert-rectangle Undo tree Jumping backwards/forwards a whole word with a keypress. Can be run inside terminal, when a command needs an $EDITOR
- 0-_-0 6y ago
  Thank you. 1. Notepad++ has macros when I need it. 2. Rectangular selection is available is VSCode and I use it a lot. The generalisation, multiple cursors (with each cursor having its own clipboard), is the best thing since sliced bread in a text editor. 3. I don't have undo tree, I can see it being useful sometimes. Hope it appears in VSCode soon [1]. Fequent automated backups (file history) works OK as an alternative. 4. Ctrl+left, ctrl+right jumps a word in every editor in Windows. In VSCode you can also jump a fraction of a word (to an underscore or the next part of a camel case name). 5. Well this I can't do but never needed to. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/84297#issuecomment-583467138 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/84297#issuecommen...

by 0-_-0 6y ago

npsimons 6y ago

> whenever people describe their reasons for using them in lists like this, I see nothing that I would consider an advantage over my current setup, and then just forget about the whole thing. TBF, you've just described exactly how us emacs and vim users feel every time someone says "why aren't you using shiny new editor X? It has feature Y!"

im3w1l 6y ago

As an emacs user who has used a few IDE's in my time, some nice things you might be missing (but which you may not care enough about to switch): Easily recording and playing back macros. Delete-rectangle / insert-rectangle Undo tree Jumping backwards/forwards a whole word with a keypress. Can be run inside terminal, when a command needs an $EDITOR

0-_-0 6y ago
Thank you. 1. Notepad++ has macros when I need it. 2. Rectangular selection is available is VSCode and I use it a lot. The generalisation, multiple cursors (with each cursor having its own clipboard), is the best thing since sliced bread in a text editor. 3. I don't have undo tree, I can see it being useful sometimes. Hope it appears in VSCode soon [1]. Fequent automated backups (file history) works OK as an alternative. 4. Ctrl+left, ctrl+right jumps a word in every editor in Windows. In VSCode you can also jump a fraction of a word (to an underscore or the next part of a camel case name). 5. Well this I can't do but never needed to. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/84297#issuecomment-583467138 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/84297#issuecommen...