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Most of the time, yes. I maintained my vimrc for maybe 10-15 years before I gave up on it. The hard part of maintaining a config is that there's no such thing
by 90s_dev 1y ago
Most of the time, yes. I maintained my vimrc for maybe 10-15 years before I gave up on it.
The hard part of maintaining a config is that there's no such thing as cost-free usage, it always takes a mental toll to change a config, to learn a new config, to remember which configs are in use and what they do, to backup configs, or at least to setup and maintain a config-auto-backup flow.
By far, the easiest mental model is just learning how everything works out of the box, and getting used to it. Then again, sometimes what people want is to do things the hard way for its own sake. That's probably part of why I kept going back to C over and over for so many years.
- 3036e4 1y agoI don't know vim well. Why is it not easy to just keep using the same settings? The oldest parts of my emacs config go back at least 30 years and I have had it in a git repo for ~15. I keep my entire .emacs.d versioned, including all third-party packages I depend on (so no fetching of anything from the cloud). Have had to do at most minimal changes when upgrading to newer versions and with some tiny amount of work the same config still works for emacs from around version 21 to 31 (but features are of course missing in older versions).
- Izkata 1y agoThe same is true of vim. They're talking about effort changing it and keeping it around across computers. I don't think I've really changed my vimrc for 5-10 years.
- aftbit 1y agoExcept then when I type ":Wq" by mistake, I get an error instead of vim doing what I expect. This happens about 20 times a day for me. One line of config maintenance is well worth the end of this daily annoyance.