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Good advice, although I personally disagree with him on the Janus front. Janus is what got me to switch full time to Vim a few months ago, after having used Vi
by thelibrarian 15y ago
Good advice, although I personally disagree with him on the Janus front.
Janus is what got me to switch full time to Vim a few months ago, after having used Vim off and on for over a decade, mainly on the command line or for edits that were to difficult or repetitive to get done in more "friendly" editors/IDEs like TextMate and Visual Studio.
Janus provided just enough familiarity and convenience to make a full-time swap something I could stick with. After a couple of months of this I did basically dump Janus and start managing plugins myself with Pathogen (adding new ones and removing some of the default Janus ones), and customising my config (which is still based on the old Janus config, but extensively modified)
- ropiku 15y agoSame for me. Maybe now I can scrap that and build my own vimrc but having a set of useful plugins really helped me.
- scottschulthess 15y agoAgreed he seems to just dismiss Janus randomly, instead prefering to tell people to what...assemble the plugins by hand and just copy his vimrc config? not ideal.
- zem 15y agothat's almost but not quite entirely unlike what he's suggesting, which is to start with a minimal .vimrc, understand every line in it, and gradually add tweaks and plugins as you see the need for them and understand how to set them up.