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> For example 4dd to delete 4 lines. Now, why exactly would I want to go into edit mode to type 4dd to delete 4 lines instead of select and delete. The thing

> For example 4dd to delete 4 lines. Now, why exactly would I want to go into edit mode to type 4dd to delete 4 lines instead of select and delete. The thing is that you can do both in Vim. 4dd is faster but harder to learn and commit to, it's not in any way required though and you can stick to vim basics and go the regular select and delete route too (via mouse, v, etc.)

nnoitra 5y ago
But those are features of vim. The default settings of vim are nonexistent. I needed to spend hours just to get it to sort of work. It was not even showing line numbers let alone syntax highlighting.
- bmj 5y ago
  I needed to spend hours just to get it to sort of work. Some people consider this a bug, others consider it a feature. I use both VS Code and (Neo)Vim on a regular basis. A huge advantage of VS Code is that for many languages, it works pretty darn well out of the box. I do a lot of ECMAScript development, and I have exactly two extensions installed for VS Code: ESlint and GitLens (plus some themes, but I don't consider those functional). My init.vim file is nearly 400 lines long, and that includes everything to provide a reasonable IDE-like experience (fuzzy finder, Ctrl-P, NerdTree, Airline, Git, various mappings, etc). Granted, I did not type all 400 lines (that is, they are copied from other user's configuration files), but I still stitched a lot together. And that's fine, for me. I get that some people don't want to spend their time tweaking their tools to that degree. VS Code is still a convivial tool[0], in my opinion. It simply starts from a different place. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tools_for_Conviviality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tools_for_Conviviality