I like VSCodium, a vscode build without ms telemetry and such
The best thing about Vim is that despite having all the features of a modern IDE it starts in 0.1s and you can start editing right away while the code data is loading asynchronously.
The worst thing about Vim is that… just kidding, there’s nothing bad about it.
Vscode I’m always like all right let’s code… Ah shit, the “what’s new” window has popped up again in the middle of my typing…
I never close my IDE or reboot. Problem solved.
0.1s is way too long, you need to optimize your startup time. /s
People meme about “q!” but it is super helpful to have that extra step, because sometimes your fingers are moving faster than your brain is. That quick switch back-n-forth vim - gcc - ./a.out loop and my probably ADHD mean that vim saying, “hey, remember you haven’t saved this yet” is a godsend.
You are right about the best part about vim - you can work as fast you type.
There also IDEs that start instantly.
They don’t ship a whole browser though.
It’s a trade off for sure. I think the area editors like Vim totally win in is when you need to ssh into a server and edit something. I think it will always exist because of this use case
vim was such an unimaginable improvement over nano for doing stuff on linux servers. Having an in-shell-editor search-and-replace function alone is worth everything you have to do to learn vim.
And after I was comfortable around vim because of all the “training” on servers, I just switched to vim fulltime. No more GUI editor for me!
Nanos search and replace is
Alt+Ras far as I rememberHa, that would’ve helped me a few times. Good to know!
Still, I wouldn’t switch vim for nano ever again. nano is a good and easy start, but I think if you do more than just basic editing of a few files every now and then, learning vim is the way to go.
vim is pretty customizable, widespread and it has been around for quite some time after all. If you think you need it, somebody most likely already made it as a vim-plugin :)
Fly in fly trap:
:q!
Recording @q
But if you accidentally typed
aori, press ESC first.I thought flies use
ZZfor the onomatopoeia
So
ZQcomes from the sound of a fly being swatted?
I remapped the power button of my computer to whatever that series of keypresses is that exits vim.
that series of keypresses is that exits vim
One of the great mysteries of the universe. However, I can confirm that my power button also exits vim.
That’s really smart. That way if I ever figure out the command to exit Vim, it’ll behave the same as my current method (powering off the PC.)
Vim and VScode are my favorite code editors but I admit that Vim is better :]
Knowing how to actually navigate vim is worth learning. Especially if you work in embedded systems where a lot of the time you’re on setup that is running barebones and likely just has vi as a text editor.
But I used VSCode for dev work with the VIM plugin.
Laughs in Zed
HAHAHAHA I know the secret passcode to escape!
Incidentally, it’s ctrl+]. But I remap it to ‘kj’, and somehow have never typed ‘blackjack’ in all my years of using Vim!
I just use cntrl-z and then
kill %1
So… we meet at last, Doctor Evil!
Good luck exiting that!
ctrl-x. ;)
oh no no no
it’s the x button on the top right of the window
laughs in i3
vscodium slightly better than vscode tho.
honestly all ide’s are rubbish - especially electron ones. for a gui editor, i’ve just gone back to sublime text and have never been happier.
Tbf codium is a very well optimized electron app. Don’t believe me? Try discord
very well optimized electron app
It’s like a very light Elephant
What is your opinion on Lapce ?
What is your opinion on Lapce ?
Is there a stable way to use closed extensions (like the MS Python one) with vscodium by now? I’d love to get away from MS’ grasp, but it’s much harder if I’ll be missing out on language integrations.
Is there a stable way to use closed extensions (like the MS Python one) with vscodium by now?
Yes. Use this config edit.. Everything works fine.
Hm, people in the GitHub issue are still complaining that it doesn’t work. Does it work fine for you?
I’ve never had any issues with any VSCode plugin failing in VSCodium.
But I’m not a PyLance user.
Your experience with other extensions sadly doesn’t mean much for Pylance. It specifically has DRM implemented to prevent vscodium from loading it, just like some other MS extensions. That’s why I’m asking.
& then there’s emacs
(& this-post (there-is emacs))
Why not both?
Hmmm there seems to be a vscode in my vim.
wait what?
Emacs with evil mode
So kind of off topic. Like 15 years ago emacs vs vim split in engineering was like 50-50. Now I see more like like 90-10 work com winning. What happened? I always assumed they are equivalent more or less.
There’s been a lot more evangelism about emacs lately.
Also the fact emacs has doom and spacemacs to ease new users in while vim drops you into
:and tells you to swim means that it’s easier for emacs to get new users.
I’ve enjoyed JetBrains over either so far.
Zed is better. The AI stuff can be disabled.
