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> (there's a reason there's a vi/vim mode or plugin for every major editor except emacs Viper? Vim mode? That's another story that these vim modes in emacs ar
by irahul 15y ago
> (there's a reason there's a vi/vim mode or plugin for every major editor except emacs
Viper? Vim mode?
That's another story that these vim modes in emacs are hated by both emacs and vim users. I don't know who exactly they cater to.
- evilduck 15y agoI agree that they're usually sub-par, but it's telling that someone on every major IDE tries to address the lack of modal editing. Personally, when I'm using .Net or Java, I tend to keep the IDE open and open up gVim along side it, since it's rare for me to need the text-munging capabilities of vim simultaneously with the boilerplate/intellisense features of the IDEs.
- zaphar 15y agoI'm someone they cater too. I'm somewhere on the intermediate end of the scale for vim users and I love it's modal editing. But I also like modifying and specializing my editor and VimScript is to put it mildly a really sucky scripting language. And no the {perl,python,ruby} bindings do not improve the situation significantly. Viper with Vimpulse get me close enough and still allow me to modify my editor in a lisp dialect. I'm willing to sacrifice some of the edge case uses of Vim to have this power. It's not ideal but it's currently better than vanilla Vim or Emacs. I have hopes for Yi in the future but it's not there yet and development has only recently started to pick up on the project again so it has a ways to go.