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    [–] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 90 points 2 months ago (3 children)
    [–] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    The full name is VScodium. https://vscodium.com/

    Codium is a genus of edible green macroalgae.

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    [–] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

    Ooooh thank you for reminding me I need to make this switch

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    [–] flamingos@feddit.uk 80 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    If Vim is so good, then why can't you browse Lemmy from it?

    This meme was made by the Emacs gang.

    [–] Badland9085@lemm.ee 35 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Because unlike emacs gang, we don’t need to build an OS to browse Lemmy.

    How bout you go back and let your friends know that if they’re in need of a good editor, try Vim ;)

    [–] django@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Vim needs are met by using Evil-Mode. You don't have to leave Emacs for this.

    [–] Badland9085@lemm.ee 37 points 2 months ago

    As a poke at Emacs'Β creeping featurism, vi advocates have been known to describe Emacs as "a great operating system, lacking only a decent editor".

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_war

    :P

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    [–] flamingos@feddit.uk 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    How bout you go back and let your friends know that if they’re in need of a good editor, try Vim ;)

    If my friends wanted a good editor, then I wouldn't recommend a Vimitor, I'd recommend ed, the standard text EDitor :p

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    [–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 49 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)
    [–] 1984@lemmy.today 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    Helix is much faster than neovim, but annoyingly it feels so limited. Can't change anything about it.

    But it's supposed to get plugins at some point.

    [–] joytoy@discuss.online 6 points 2 months ago

    πŸ‘‹ present!

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    [–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Meanwhile, James rocks up with Notepad++

    [–] nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    smh real programmers use magnetized needles on tape

    [–] activ8r@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 months ago
    [–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 months ago

    The Fiat Panda of text editors

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    [–] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)
    [–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 2 months ago

    I use neovim btw

    [–] r00ty@kbin.life 12 points 2 months ago

    I use vim, aliased to vi, on Arch btw.

    [–] udon@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    tbh, one of the essential things vim gets right for me is that it's designed as a text editor, not (only) a code editor. I use it for so much non-code text as well, but it feels weird opening a coding tool for such things.

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    [–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 13 points 2 months ago (10 children)

    Have been a professional software engineer for 8 years now. Have yet to find a reason to use vim for anything (other than availability of course, but if nano isn't installed for some godforsaken reason I have other problems lol).

    [–] toynbee@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    I've been in various forms of coding and administration for around fifteen years now. Despite trying lots of editors, I have yet to find a reason to use anything but vim.

    I do like obsidian for note taking.

    edit: Removed typo.

    [–] chellomere@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

    Professional software engineer here, using vim as my primary editor.

    [–] AntY@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

    Vim is a way more competent editor than nano. If you spend a lot of time editing files via ssh, vim is amazing. And when you get bitten by it, you’re infected. ;-)

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    [–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    I plan on moving to a nice Neovim setup eventually, but VSCodium is so convenient out of the box for a baby developer like me.

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    [–] Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 months ago

    I feel like I’m the only person using KDevelop

    [–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

    Ewww not even vscodium

    [–] dogsoahC@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

    laughs in Emacs

    [–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

    It always surprises me how complicated some of the editor tooling sounds in threads like this. Obviously once you learn how to use these things they are powerful, but how do people have the patience to deal with all of that in the beginning? This is coming from a guy who writes scripts constantly to avoid doing tedious, error-prone things.

    Also I keep seeing people say vscode is slow. One of the reasons I switched to it is that it's insanely fast compared to other editors I used (even those with far-inferior featuresets) πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

    [–] j4k3@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

    "But guys, gtfomp" - emacs

    [–] muse@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    That can't be right, the red car has a service manual and too many functioning assemblies for it to be VS.

    [–] NeilBru@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)
    [–] Nester@feddit.uk 5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Just out of interest, what are the reasons someone would move from neovim to helix?

    I switched after development ended on the package manager I was using on neovim. I didn't at that moment want to simplify my vimconfig, so I looked into helix.

    Helix highlights the action you take, so if for example, you are deleting 5 lines, you select the lines first then hit delete. Sometimes the vim actions end up taking fewer keystrokes though. And I still prefer some ways vim does things. And I don't always agree with the kakoune inspiration of helix (I haven't used kakoune, just going by what the docs say) - for example, movement always selects text which I then have to unhighlight.

    But the biggest reason I stuck to helix was sane LSP defaults out of the box with minimal config. I was tired of having to fix LSP related bugs in my vim config after package updates.

    TLDR: saner defaults for helix + lazy to fix my bloated vimconfig.

    [–] lime@feddit.nu 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

    i have sort of done this. the main thing is that the reversed object-verb command model just... latches onto your brain. this is from kakoune of course, but it just makes a lot of sense coming from vimland. multicursor is also nice because it removes some modes, meaning there is less state to keep in your head. finally, the plug-and-play nature of helix means you can have an lsp-enabled environment from the word go, with no configuration.

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    [–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I would argue that vim is fantastic for a lot of editing and coding tasks, just not all of them.

    Where it utterly fails is with deep trees of files in codebases, like you see in Java or some Javascript/Typescript apps. Even with a robust suite of add-ons, you wind up backing into full-bore IDE territory to manage that much filesystem complexity. Only difference is that navigating and managing a large file tree w/o a mouse is kind of torture.

    [–] ivn@jlai.lu 11 points 2 months ago

    Fuzzy finding really shine for this use case, no need for a mouse.

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    [–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

    My professor was always trying to get us to use vim or eMacs over an IDE to write our C programs. I’m sorry, I like using a mouse. I know, I know, blasphemy. I’m taking a shortcut. I’m a noob.

    When I absolutely have to, I go for vim, mostly because I know a few of the key bindings for it, but otherwise avoid it.

    [–] BaumGeist@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I’m taking a shortcut

    more like a longcut. I save so much time and effort not having to switch my right hand between the mouse and keyboard constantly

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    [–] Bysmuth@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Code and intellij have plugins available to use vim keybindings on them. I like this approach to get the best of both worlds

    [–] lime@feddit.nu 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    the vim plugins are so bad... they only support the super basic stuff, as soon as you want flags with your search or chaining of commands they are useless

    [–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

    The neovim plugin for VSCode uses the actual nvim binary as a backend and supports all features.

    [–] lime@feddit.nu 6 points 2 months ago

    that's a pretty neat solution

    It's not the same. Granted it's been years since I used the vim plugin but last time I tried it couldn't even do standard find and replace.

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    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago

    I like VScodium and VIM although I have also been using Kate and nano as of late.

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