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For me the greatest feature of VSCode is that it is a neovim frontend. To me it isn't a vim competitor, but a different way to use vim.
by constantcrying 4y ago
For me the greatest feature of VSCode is that it is a neovim frontend.
To me it isn't a vim competitor, but a different way to use vim.
- Hixon10 4y agoAre you talking about https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=asvetliakov.vscode-neovim https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=asvetlia... ?
- constantcrying 4y agoYes.
- ducharmdev 4y agoI feel the same way - I absolutely love having vim keybindings & the command palette together. I prefer vim for editing text, and vscode's defaults for everything else.
- tylerc230 4y agoHow do you set this up? Any drawbacks?
- constantcrying 4y agoInstall the extension and point it to the neovim binary, lastly set the affinity for the extension (to make it fast). The extension description documents some of the downsides, obviously vscode wasn't purpose build as a neovim frontend and some extensions or settings can not work (potentially they don't even make any sense), the documentation points out that your current init file may cause problems. The alternative is the "regular" vim extension, which is more limited in functionality (but it even emulates common extension, like commentary) but potentially easier to set up. But in the end you can get a "real" vim together with all the tooling (debugger, autocomplete, syntax, etc.) vscode extensions provide, which I think is very neat.