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I install vscode from scratch, install a few extensions I need, set 3 or 4 settings I use regularly, and bang in 5 minutes I have a customized, working environm

by rs186 1y ago

I install vscode from scratch, install a few extensions I need, set 3 or 4 settings I use regularly, and bang in 5 minutes I have a customized, working environment catered for almost any language. vi? Good luck with that. And I say that as an experienced vim user who used to tinker a bit.

godelski 1y ago
> I install vscode from scratch, install a few extensions I need, set 3 or 4 settings I use regularly, and bang in 5 minutes I have a customized, working environment catered for almost any language. Weird, I'd say that's my experience with vim. I just carry around by dotfiles, which is not that extensive. Hell, I will even feel comfortable in a vi terminal, though that's extremely rare to actually find. Usually vi is just remapped to vim Edit: The git folder with *all* my dotfiles (which includes all my notes) is just 3M, so I can take it anywhere. If I install all the plugins and if I install all the vim plugins I currently have (which some are old and I don't use) the total is ~100M. So...
- throwaway83977 1y ago
  3MB of configuration to make a text editor usable is a lot.
  - godelski 1y ago
    3MB? Good god, that'd be ridiculous! You misread. I'm using 74K for *vim* configs. (Mostly because I have a few files for organization's sake) I rounded up to 3M from 2.3M and 1.4M of that is .git lol. 156K is all my rc files, another 124K for anything that goes into ~/.confg, 212K for my notes, 128K for install scripts, 108K for templates, and 108K for scripts I'll repeat myself, with the *same emphasis* as above. Hopefully it's clearer this time. >> The git folder with **all** my dotfiles (which includes all my notes) is just 3M I was just saying it's pretty simple to carry *everything* around, implying that this is nothing in comparison to something like a plugin or even VScode itself. I mean I went to the VScode plugin page and a lot of these plugins are huge. *All* of the plugins I have *combined* (including unused) are 78M. The top two most installed VSC plugins are over 50M. Hell, the ssh plugin is 28M! I don't have a single plugin that big!

by rs186 1y ago

godelski 1y ago

> I install vscode from scratch, install a few extensions I need, set 3 or 4 settings I use regularly, and bang in 5 minutes I have a customized, working environment catered for almost any language. Weird, I'd say that's my experience with vim. I just carry around by dotfiles, which is not that extensive. Hell, I will even feel comfortable in a vi terminal, though that's extremely rare to actually find. Usually vi is just remapped to vim Edit: The git folder with *all* my dotfiles (which includes all my notes) is just 3M, so I can take it anywhere. If I install all the plugins and if I install all the vim plugins I currently have (which some are old and I don't use) the total is ~100M. So...

throwaway83977 1y ago
3MB of configuration to make a text editor usable is a lot.
- godelski 1y ago
  3MB? Good god, that'd be ridiculous! You misread. I'm using 74K for *vim* configs. (Mostly because I have a few files for organization's sake) I rounded up to 3M from 2.3M and 1.4M of that is .git lol. 156K is all my rc files, another 124K for anything that goes into ~/.confg, 212K for my notes, 128K for install scripts, 108K for templates, and 108K for scripts I'll repeat myself, with the *same emphasis* as above. Hopefully it's clearer this time. >> The git folder with **all** my dotfiles (which includes all my notes) is just 3M I was just saying it's pretty simple to carry *everything* around, implying that this is nothing in comparison to something like a plugin or even VScode itself. I mean I went to the VScode plugin page and a lot of these plugins are huge. *All* of the plugins I have *combined* (including unused) are 78M. The top two most installed VSC plugins are over 50M. Hell, the ssh plugin is 28M! I don't have a single plugin that big!