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My editor of choice is vscode and Intellij, the only time I would use a command line editor is when I am sshing into a server temporarily and just want to make
by me551ah 4y ago
My editor of choice is vscode and Intellij, the only time I would use a command line editor is when I am sshing into a server temporarily and just want to make some small edits to a file. I know enough commands on vim to insert/edit text and exit, which works when nano isn't available on the machine and I don't have access to a package manager.
But for everything else, I use a proper IDE. I setup sshfs with remote machines that I use frequently, and just load the folder into my IDE and edit files in my IDE. VIM was designed in a very different era when terminals were small. An IDE gives me an integrated debugger, code completion, code formatting, project management(very useful for hierarchical projects) and integration with tools like VCS, Testing frameworks etc. I still don't understand people who use vim(or nano) as their primary editor.
- 3836293648 4y agoAn ide provides very little that vim doesn't. If you think it does you're just ignorant about what vim can do. Nano is basically featureless though