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In my experience vim emulation is great, almost as good as using native vim for keybindings, navigation etc but still not so comfortable. Like cuddling someone
by harry8 4y ago
In my experience vim emulation is great, almost as good as using native vim for keybindings, navigation etc but still not so comfortable. Like cuddling someone you love wearing blizzard clothing - better than no cuddle for sure but not the cuddle you'd choose as your favourite.
Depending on what you're doing, the native vim plugins might well be vastly better. I swear by YouCompleteMe as a wrapper for clang-complete for navigation of a C codebase. The autocompletion is pretty good too. I Haven't seen anything better with any other editor/ide vim key bindings or not.
I'm sure if you work hard enough at your s-exepression configs emacs can be as good if those are the keybindings you know and love. But why look elsewhere? <- Not rhetorical, genuine question - have you found a reason?
- vehemenz 4y ago> But why look elsewhere? I don't know what I don't know, so that's why I ask. My JetBrains IDE does so much out of the box, I figure people give up all these features for a reason. Beyond vanity and too much free time, of course.
- harry8 4y agoYeah I found Java really needs full ide support and yes that absolutely qualifies as a blizzard where I'm cuddling up to vim bindings on whatever the team chose for their ide. Eclipse wasn't all bad last time I did this but I'm someone who doesn't enjoy Java as much as some other languages in part for this reason - people who disagree with that aren't wrong. But I've also never tried to use vim as a java ide and it could be great for all i know..?
- ar_lan 4y agoI was an ardent JetBrains user for years, and still enjoy their software. But I transitioned fully to NeoVim and there just isn’t anything I had to give up. It took a little more modification but the initial cost resulted in a much faster editing process than with GoLand. I have every single feature I regularly used with GoLand, but my editor is faster to load, consumes less memory, and I can progress at-least-as fast, if not faster by now.
- Beltalowda 4y ago> My JetBrains IDE does so much out of the box That's exactly what I don't like about it. I'm a simple guy; I like simple editors. I will spend more time turning off things in JetBrains and VSCode that I find distracting and annoying than I will spend on setting up Vim to add some features I want like LSP support.