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BBEdit was my first text editor ~15 years ago! Back when I was really obsessive over the small stuff because I wanted to be like the cool kids. I then got into

by aduffy 3y ago

BBEdit was my first text editor ~15 years ago! Back when I was really obsessive over the small stuff because I wanted to be like the cool kids. I then got into Text Wrangler, vim, emacs, nvim, etc. over the years. I was really into customizing my environment. Now I just use IntelliJ and VSCode. Don't really have to think about it, plugin system has grown enormously, and I rarely need to spend time futzing with my configs because excellent themes are free and plentiful. Progress!

keyle 3y ago
Kind of the same here. You know they've added LSP support to BBEdit recently and if you wanted a native solution... Well it does 95% of it all.
softirq 3y ago
I use vim and don't futz around with my config. I feel like this is a perpetual myth that vim or emacs requires endless tinkering. I maybe touch it once a year, and I still have: - LSP support - code actions, hover, gotos, linting. - Fuzzy finding with previews (with syntax highlighting thanks to bat) - Integrated Git - Integrated Terminal - Integrated Debugger It's a real shame that IntelliJ and VSCode users scare beginners off from trying out all the amazing editors like Vim, Barebones, Nova, etc. with this FUD that they won't get anything done. I've seen people swap between editors like SOs in high school and I've been able to consistently stick with Vim my entire career, so maybe the FOTM editor crowd are really not seeing the gains in productivity they believe they are getting by always picking the "out of the box" editor.
- extr 3y ago
  In VS Code I have an extension that allows me to highlight code and get immediate edits/advice from GPT-4. What's the VIM analogue there?
  - softirq 3y ago
    Just doing a basic google search shows me at least 4 plugins that interface with chat GPT. I personally don't use them because my workplace doesn't allow feeding our code to another companies backend.

by aduffy 3y ago

keyle 3y ago

Kind of the same here. You know they've added LSP support to BBEdit recently and if you wanted a native solution... Well it does 95% of it all.

softirq 3y ago

I use vim and don't futz around with my config. I feel like this is a perpetual myth that vim or emacs requires endless tinkering. I maybe touch it once a year, and I still have: - LSP support - code actions, hover, gotos, linting. - Fuzzy finding with previews (with syntax highlighting thanks to bat) - Integrated Git - Integrated Terminal - Integrated Debugger It's a real shame that IntelliJ and VSCode users scare beginners off from trying out all the amazing editors like Vim, Barebones, Nova, etc. with this FUD that they won't get anything done. I've seen people swap between editors like SOs in high school and I've been able to consistently stick with Vim my entire career, so maybe the FOTM editor crowd are really not seeing the gains in productivity they believe they are getting by always picking the "out of the box" editor.

extr 3y ago
In VS Code I have an extension that allows me to highlight code and get immediate edits/advice from GPT-4. What's the VIM analogue there?
- softirq 3y ago
  Just doing a basic google search shows me at least 4 plugins that interface with chat GPT. I personally don't use them because my workplace doesn't allow feeding our code to another companies backend.