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Pretty confused about this post and comments. Seems everyone is just using custom regexps or piping buffers to external commands. That's how I as an emacs user
by aulin 3y ago
Pretty confused about this post and comments. Seems everyone is just using custom regexps or piping buffers to external commands. That's how I as an emacs user occasionally use vim. And that's because I don't know vim at all and this way I can work around my ignorance.
I refuse to believe vim power users use it like this.
- kzrdude 3y agoIt's one aspect of using vim, to use the s or g commands efficiently IMO. But it's not as important as using the regular command + movement vim language stuff.
- williamdclt 3y agoI never pipe buffers, but I do use sed regex replacement pretty often. Like many other vim aspects I always feel it’s clunky though: vim is a _text_ editor when I want it to be a _code_ editor. I don’t operate on paragraphs or regular expressions, I operate on functions and identifiers and imports.
- tmalsburg2 3y agoI don’t think that this list is supposed to be an accurate representation of how people typically use vim. More likely this list was compiled precisely because these uses are somewhat non-standard / non-obvious and therefore worth sharing. Having said that, I do believe that using external tools is much more idiomatic for Vim than Emacs.