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As an old-school guy who can touch type quickly, I absolutely hate autoindent, automatic closing curlies, syntax highlighting, and even particularly the tempora
by MarkusWandel 3y ago
As an old-school guy who can touch type quickly, I absolutely hate autoindent, automatic closing curlies, syntax highlighting, and even particularly the temporary jump to a partly typed search string, highlighted and all, until you cancel the search and zap, you're no longer there.
It is possible to work without all that stuff, and once the habit is formed, it is sticky. I fully understand that most people now are habituated the other way, and plain editing would feel strange.
- Linux-Fan 3y agoOf all the features that you have listed, I use only the syntax highlighting. I have never tried to turn it off for longer than a few minutes when it worked. When it is broken (e.g. wrongly coloring stuff) I sometimes turn it off, but this is usually not long enough to find out if I am really better without the colors. Turning off the syntax highlighting is still one of the things that I would like to try out some day...
- ryanolsonx 3y agoWhy do you hate autoindent? Have you seen issues with autoindent while developing? Vim `set autoindent` works well when configured with how you do tabs for a given language (ie `set sw=2 sts=2` for JavaScript)
- MarkusWandel 3y agoHabit! My original point, once you're habituated, it's much more natural to type an indent than to delete an automatically generated one because you want to go back one indent level, say for a closing curly brace. This just interferes with the "flow".
- ryanolsonx 3y agoI can see your point. Thanks.
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