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vim is amazing once you learn a couple verbs, visual block mode, windows, and the nice special subjects, eg % for enclosing parens
by ijustlovemath 2y ago
vim is amazing once you learn a couple verbs, visual block mode, windows, and the nice special subjects, eg % for enclosing parens
- lyu07282 2y agoUnfortunately then you will eventually be forced to work in environments without it and feel like you just had a brain aneurysm due to how insufferably slow and clunky everything else is. Ignorance is bliss, just look at all those cute commenters here who think notepad++ is the best thing ever. "It even supports regexp!" It makes the editor wars feel so pointless, but Windows users are adorable.
- ijustlovemath 2y agoEverywhere useful has it these days; even on Windows you can get a very capable vim in Git Bash or WSL
- syndicatedjelly 2y agoI have never encountered an OS distribution that did not have vi pre-installed
- nyarlathotep_ 2y agoI seldom use vim/neovim these days (except for commit messages as it's $EDITOR) but use vim bindings via plugins everywhere I can (Intellij, VSCode) Sometimes there's issues with these, but they're generally quite good for daily use (although slower)