• Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 小时前

      I tend to work on customer systems where I’m not allowed to install anything. I’ve yet to encounter one that doesn’t have vi installed, but I’ve seen a few without nano.

  • dezmd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    4 小时前

    The only Dad advice you nerds need:

    mcedit from the Midnight Commander (mc) tool is the superior text editor.

    I don’t even run arch, btw.

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
    6·
    5 小时前

    I like evil/spacemacs because I can get my vim fix virtually, because emacs from a software engineering perspective is beautiful!

  • Cyrus Draegur@lemm.eeEnglish
    481·
    9 小时前

    If I wanted to hear about what’s good about Vim, should I:

    a) ask what’s good about vim

    -OR-

    b) assert blindly that there is nothing good about vim so fanboys will come crawling out of the walls tripping over each other to tell me how I’m wrong?

    • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
      27·
      6 小时前

      Doesn’t matter we will tell you either way.

      • Instead of simply shortcuts, vim uses “chords”. Every new shortcut I learn can be combined intuitively* with all the other shortcuts I know.
      • Because of this there’s no faster way to edit files than Vim in the hands of an experienced user.
      • this let’s me spend almost no time editing code, freeing up the rest of my time for swearing at piss poor documentation.

      * I use “intuitively” here in a way that not merely stretches, but outright abuses the definition of the word.

      • Cyrus Draegur@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        3 小时前

        Thank you for telling me all this neat stuff! :D

        I think I get what you are intending to imply by the word “intuitively”; it’s that it eventually becomes as reflexive and fluid as touch-typing itself.

        Gosh you make it sound almost like you play Vim like an instrument more than use it…!

        Honestly that sounds cool _

        • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
          1·
          2 小时前

          I think I get what you are intending to imply by the word “intuitively”; it’s that it eventually becomes as reflexive and fluid as touch-typing itself.

          Exactly like that!

          It’s also another source of the many “I can’t exit Vim” jokes, because it is now genuinely disorienting for me to try to edit text without Vim key bindings.

          Gosh you make it sound almost like you play Vim like an instrument more than use it…!

          That’s a great analogy. It does very much feel that way.

          Honestly that sounds cool _

          It is pretty cool.

          Wether it’s really worth the learning curve is probably unique to each person that tries it. But for folks who need to edit a lot of text a lot of the time, it’s pretty great.

      • pmk@lemmy.sdf.org
        8·
        5 小时前

        It’s intuitive if your previous editor was ed(1) and you’re using an ADM-3A-like keyboard.

    • Classy@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      5 小时前

      To add to your line of query, what if I don’t give a shit about writing code and I just use Linux as a casual laptop user? I’ve never looked at vim or emacs, I use Kate and OnlyOffice

      • ZorathTheDestroyer@lemmynsfw.com
        6·
        4 小时前

        Depends on how much you write. At some point the efficiency gain is probably worth learning vim anyway, but Kate is a nice editor and does the job.

        I just like vim, it feels nice.

        • nul9o9@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 小时前

          Using Neovim with qmv had been amazing for when I needed to standardize seasion and episode numbers/titles for my jellyfin library.

        • Classy@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          4 小时前

          What kind of things would we be gaining efficency for? Markdown? It seems graphically to be a very spartan program. If I’m only writing text, what value would I gain from learning vim versus a graphical text editor that incorporates markdown and page design?

          • ZorathTheDestroyer@lemmynsfw.com
            2·
            3 小时前

            If you want to do document editing, then neither vim nor Kate are editors that do that. They are for editing text. You can write markdown, if you like, and then use pandoc or other tools to convert that to a printable document. I always use LaTeX if I need a pretty output, but that also has somewhat of a steep learning curve.

            What you gain is the ability to manipulate text very efficiently. It’s hard to describe, but it kind of feels like a lower overhead protocol of communicating to the computer what i want it to do to the text compared to “normal” editors. Again, if you only rarely write stuff, it might not be worth it, but it feels great

    • babybus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      131·
      8 小时前

      You shouldn’t talk about vim at all! Just write that vscode is the most flexible code editor.

      • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
        7·
        5 小时前

        I’ve seen vscode fill up home directories unnecessarily when run on the machine directly as well as remotely!

        IMO vscode is a perfect example of recent software that looks great from a features pov but horrible from an efficient implementation pov. I loved it until I hated it.

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
      2·
      5 小时前

      Vim has been around long enough that I’ve found anything I want to figure out how to do has been discussed many times on various places around the internet and have yet to fail to find what I’m looking for with a search.

    • serenissi@lemmy.world
      6·
      8 小时前

      Yeah hx. It was hx that finally made me use vi style navigation and now I choose vim over nano almost always.

      • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        6·
        8 小时前

        I’m halfway between hx and vim, I vastly prefer the helix/kakoune philosophy of selection, then action over vim, but I’m dearly missing plug-in support for Helix

        • Lupec@lemm.ee
          3·
          6 小时前

          I was going to point to visual.nvim as a possible middle ground, but it’s now archived :(

          Disclaimer: I haven’t actually tested it myself

          • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            4·
            5 小时前

            I’m just gonna be patient. Vanilla Helix is very much usable for everything I need it for at the moment, with built in LSP support, and plug-in support is on the horizon. Not sure when exactly, but it’s gonna happen eventually

            • Lupec@lemm.ee
              2·
              4 小时前

              Yeah I’m with you there, vanilla helix meets basically 90% of my needs so I’m not in any real rush to change

  • Aniki 🌱🌿English
    14·
    9 小时前

    Is the whole point of this community to repost tired old memes or are ya’ll just painfully uncreative?

    :q!

  • Naich@lemmings.world
    1021·
    12 小时前

    Once you try Vim you will never use another text editor. Or any other program for that matter because you won’t be able to exit.

    • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
      82·
      5 小时前

      Getting used to vim has made nano unusable for me. The muscle memory is too strong. That and all of the regex and plugin features (ex. LSP) are just too useful.

      • ArchAengelus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        5·
        4 小时前

        I had the same experience. Nano is great if you’re used to notepad or a generic, limited text editor.

        Once you learn a terminal editor like eMacs or vim, why go back? So much less hand motion going to mouse, arrows, and back.