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"What I've noticed about emacs lovers is that they all customize it heavily - I didn't want to do that, since to me the point of using a plain text editor is th
by pmoriarty 4y ago
"What I've noticed about emacs lovers is that they all customize it heavily - I didn't want to do that, since to me the point of using a plain text editor is that it's always available in exactly the same form wherever I happen to be. "
So you not customize vim either?
If you don't, you're missing out 99.999% of the greatness of both editors and doing yourself a huge disservice.
It's like being a carpenter and limiting yourself to only ever using a screwdriver.
- commandlinefan 4y ago> you not customize vim No, and I have a specific reason - I ssh into remote boxes a lot, and I want the editor to work more or less the same wherever and whenever I use it. I guess I could customize vi to be a multi-purpose IDE but... that's what I have IntelliJ for.
- pmoriarty 4y agoIf you're using vi or vim for really simple tasks, and not using it much, you're not missing out by not customizing it. But the more you use it, the more you're missing out by just using vanilla vi or vim... and I hesitate to mention them in the same sentence because even vanilla vim is thousands of times more powerful than vi. Vim's true power, however, lies in its customization and plugins. You're really missing out by restricting yourself this way.
- taeric 4y agoThat isn't a perfect reason to not customize your local editor. Most all allow opening remote files and shells. And simpler things like recently opened files can already be very convenient. Simply put, IDE in the IDEA sense is not the only end goal. Such that that straw man is obnoxious. Now, it is perfectly fine to just not want to. Such that I am not saying you should reconsider. Just don't be too proud of that reasoning.