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used vim for ten years now. I have wanted to try this out but stuck in my ways with vim. To me one of the great selling points of vim (I use strictly in termina
by JohnMakin 1y ago
used vim for ten years now. I have wanted to try this out but stuck in my ways with vim. To me one of the great selling points of vim (I use strictly in terminal, I didnt even know there was a gui) is that no matter what machine I am on, I basically always have my code editor available to me. my .vimrc is about 10 lines, growing at a pace of maybe 1 line a year, and it’s in my head. If I need to switch machines, no big deal, just install my favorite flavor of vim and shell and I’m good to go almost instantly, vs the typical fuss a lot of other editors have to feel “just right.” vim out of the box is really good without much fuss, providing you have got past the learning curve - which admittedly, is steep.
- Lyngbakr 1y agoOut of curiosity, what in a broad sense is configured in those 10 lines? (For context: I'm a Helix user trying out terminal-based vim at the moment and I'd like to know what the most important tweaks are.)
- JohnMakin 1y agosome basic ones like: syntax on set number set expandtab set tabstop=4 set modelines=0 set nowrap and then a few related to ctags.