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You exhibit the “Vim mode paradox.” If you’re comfortable using the limited “Vim mode” in other editors, you don’t know Vim well enough to justify using it.
by stevebmark 4y ago
You exhibit the “Vim mode paradox.” If you’re comfortable using the limited “Vim mode” in other editors, you don’t know Vim well enough to justify using it.
- pxc 4y agoYou've forgotten that nobody has to justify using the tools they like :) But also, some Vi emulation modes are much, much more complete than others.
- phowat 4y agoNo vim mode is perfect, but they do make other editors bearable. I think vs code’s is the closest one I tried. Though I never really used it as my daily driver.
- eloisius 4y agoTo me vim mode is just enough to keep me from ragequitting something like Xcode when using vim is practically not an option, but “vim” mode would never be enough to make me use another editor by choice. Vim isn’t just hjkl.
- bnralt 4y agoI tried Vim mode in XCode. When I move by paragraph, XCode crashes when it gets to the bottom of the screen. I understand that XCode Vim mode is lacking a lot of the functionality of Vim, coming nowhere close to even the free XVim plugin. But you think they could at least make sure the few features they do include aren't completely broken.
- nayaketo 4y agoLolwut? I use Vim plugin for Visual Studio every day and although pretty limited compared to full fledged Vim, it's still extremely powerful. Besides hjkl movement, I still get splits, registers, macros, search/replace, formatting and the aforementioned features are easily 95% of Vim features I used to use Vim for. So the limited experience is still pretty great and I don't know how to use VS without this plugin anymore.
- tasuki 4y agoI used vim as my primary code editor for over 15 years. Now I use IntelliJ vim mode and am happy with it. You're saying I don't know vim well enough. What important vim features (which I'd use if I knew vim) is IntelliJ missing?