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Pretty much. I tried using vim as my sole driver for a long time then finally saw the light that modern IDE + Vim mode plugin is the one true holy path. Vim is

Pretty much. I tried using vim as my sole driver for a long time then finally saw the light that modern IDE + Vim mode plugin is the one true holy path. Vim is wonderful but a massive waste of time and the quality of plugins is just lower jn general (obv. there are several exceptions, zig language support, for instance is much better than a lot of other vim language support plugins out of the box). The modal editing can't be beat, but frankly it's just way more painful to do sophisticated things in Vim than it is in a modern IDE. At best you need to produce a write once vimscript and hook it up to a command. Contrarily the ecosystems of modern IDEs are so large there's actually a greater chance someone already solved you problem and provides it with one click/hotkey. For me, vim is nothing but a constant distraction generator. Instead of being able to focus on what I actually intended to get done I'm ever tempted to go off writing some vimscript to solve some edge case I just encountered while editing or to automate something--much better to just make it a nonoption, at least for me. I'm sure there are vim gods out there that have an entirely different experience.

Aperocky 4y ago
I am no vim god but I have a different experience. I've installed quite a few plugins (e.g. nerdtree, airline etc) but they are mostly cosmetic and I myself don't do much vimscript other than some basic .vimrc. But I do have most of the content of any vim cheatsheet burned into muscle memory and can come up with combination of them on the fly. I also use :norm extensively when I need to quickly batch edit anything. I never really did encounter scenarios where the logic are so complex that I'd rather write vimscript to solve it - at worst, I'd do a macro, but combination of modal keys are usually enough. I think I find a sweet spot between using vim to its maximum utility and less about using vim for the sake of vim. I have a quick install script for everything I depend on and one thing I found extremely valuable is the ability to pull, install and have the same editor customized and familiar in any computer, virtual or real, it even works on Windows (WSL).

Aperocky 4y ago

I am no vim god but I have a different experience. I've installed quite a few plugins (e.g. nerdtree, airline etc) but they are mostly cosmetic and I myself don't do much vimscript other than some basic .vimrc. But I do have most of the content of any vim cheatsheet burned into muscle memory and can come up with combination of them on the fly. I also use :norm extensively when I need to quickly batch edit anything. I never really did encounter scenarios where the logic are so complex that I'd rather write vimscript to solve it - at worst, I'd do a macro, but combination of modal keys are usually enough. I think I find a sweet spot between using vim to its maximum utility and less about using vim for the sake of vim. I have a quick install script for everything I depend on and one thing I found extremely valuable is the ability to pull, install and have the same editor customized and familiar in any computer, virtual or real, it even works on Windows (WSL).