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Using Vim is Amazing (lemmy.world)
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I’ve tried vim on and off during college but never really had the time to fully get working with it. As it turns out the stress of two degrees is not conducive to “fun activities”. Now that I have a real job ™️, I’ve decided to finally try and use it this week full stop and I genuinely feel like a programming chad. There’s still a lot I’ll need to learn and probably overtime I’ll discover some inefficiency in how I’m using it now but it really does just feel good. I understand the hype now.

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[–] 9 points 1 year ago (11 children)

I tried vim keybinds in an IDE, and it sucked.

It wasn't even that advanced usage, but it just didn't work.

Instead I know run language servers in neovim.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What part didn't work? I use that all the time in IntelliJ and Visual Studio Code.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Most of vim is not emulated. It's very surface-level and limited. The closest is evil mode for emacs, which is decent, but still lacks a fair bit. The emulators in Intellij and VsCode are paltry in comparison to what vim can do.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I use vim keybindings in both IntelliJ and VSCode with no problems.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    Keybindings are OK, but anything beyond movement was way less ok.

    Don't remember if macros or buffers were implemented correctly.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Buffers do work in IntelliJ. Not sure about macros since I don’t use them. Haven’t checked VSCode. I found the IntelliJ plugin was better though.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Macros are absolute must, without them it's just walking.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I agree with you. I figure you probably know this, but VS Code can act as a frontend for Neovim, providing one-to-one Neovim keybindings.

    Some parts I never got working, but movement was honestly flawless. But I use a lot of snippets with ultisnips, and I didn't like the idea of translating all of that to hypersnips (or whatever the VS Code equivalent was called), so I stuck with Neovim.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Movement is like 20% of why vim is amazing.

    Without macros I'm already out, registers are also mandatory, marks are very nice to have, etc.

    I have trouble even remembering what are some of the features called, it's just musle memory now.

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