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> Yes, if you're talking about a timeframe of ~50 years, use vim and emacs. There isn't any compromises that make vim or emacs less useful than those tools wit
by goku12 3y ago
> Yes, if you're talking about a timeframe of ~50 years, use vim and emacs.
There isn't any compromises that make vim or emacs less useful than those tools with much less longevity. They are just as good as an editor to even those who don't care if they will be around 50 years from now.
- raincole 3y agoI used vim (and still using it for non-coding text editing today) but I just don't feel it's so powerful that it's comparable to IDEA. Of course it's probably because I haven't properly taken time to learn and configure it. I only know how to move cursor around, search/replace and enable syntax highlighting. But that's the point: I don't want to take a significant amount of time to learn and configure an editor. I want a IDE that works well almost out of box. Maybe my opinion will change if one day I decide to try a more batteries-included vim/emacs like Doom.
- goku12 3y agoI wouldn't have a counter to this normally. I prefer to heavily customize my editor without the support of a starter pack. But yes, starter packs like Doom Emacs and LunarVim do a great favor to these editors by enhancing their adoptibility for new users.
- zelphirkalt 3y agoI once saw a guy coding Idris in his VIM, having VIM complete everything one could imagine and more. That thing completed whole functions based on signatures and types. And that was all years before the copilot and whatever came up. From then on I believed it, when someone said they could have IDE features in VIM.