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As a non-programmer, I am surprised that I have never heard of this until now. I use vim, what would make me change / be interested in jEdit?
by I_complete_me 5y ago
As a non-programmer, I am surprised that I have never heard of this until now. I use vim, what would make me change / be interested in jEdit?
- spicybright 5y agoUnless you don't use features in vim that are available in jEdit, I don't see why it would be worth switching. I'm curious though, I don't meet many non-coders using Vim. What's your main use case? What features do you use a lot in Vim for what you do?
- geoduck14 5y ago>I'm curious though, I don't meet many non-coders using Vim. What's your main use case? What features do you use a lot in Vim for what you do? I bet he/she is a sado masochist. Probably something like a kindergarten teacher or deep sea fisherperson.
- spicybright 5y agoJeez dude. Did Vim somehow hurt you that bad? God forbid someone uses a different tool than you for their own reasons, right?
- stjohnswarts 5y agoNot everyone loves vim on first site. We were forced to use it in my first C class for in class coding tests. The first week I literally hated it and wouldn't have used it unless forced. 2 weeks in I found it tolerable and after a month it finally made a lot of sense why they did the editor the way they did it. I was pretty bitter up and until then, maybe they just never were forced over that hump :) . Now pretty much everything I use I look for "vi mode" first thing even my shells
- spicybright 5y agoThey made us use emacs for CS work. I just kept a little cheat sheet and used it like notepad though lol
- I_complete_me 5y agoI am a qualified civil engineer but I did a full-time course in Cloud Computing a few years back and came across vim. It just struck me as a brilliant idea and I mainly use it to type text files along with a little bit of python programming / web development.