One of my year goals is to change from vsc to vim hehe
Lmao
Use micro after everyone makes fun of you for using nano
Nano os shit. Micro is fine. Vim is good. Helix is peak.
helix is good, but kakoune is where all the fun happens
Good, good! You’re on the right way! But remember, there is a world outside your Emacs, don’t forget about it.
You mean Vim?
Surely, you mistyped neovim?
I have indeed
*nixvim
m-x scornful-elder-mode
The problem with Emacs is that it sucks but there is nothing better, and you are getting stuck with it forever. Welcome!
I keep thinking that as I use vim, I’ll feel the need to learn more commands, but I hardly do anything except:
- q, wq, or q!, quit with or without saving
- i, insert
- set:paste, preserves spacing
- Shift-insert, pastes if shift-ctrl-v doesn’t work
- / , search for a string (iirc, don’t really need it much).
What are your vim GOTOs?
My most used commands are also just the classics
cw - delete the next word amd enter insert mode
dd - delete line
gg - go to first line
G - go to last line
:s/searchphrase/replacephrase - search and replace
And a couple of visual mode commands do cut and paste blocks or comment out blocks of code
To build on cw:
ciw works when the cursor is anywhere in the word
ci( to delete everything between brackets and enter insert mode. Also ci" ciW or whatever
If editor-specific binds count, then g-. is my favorite in Zed.
Emacs and (Neo)Vim are a bit too overwhelming for me. I’ve tried Neovim for a relatively long time, but I felt kind of overloaded with the vast amount of features and plugins it has. I’ve tried Emacs a bit, but its complexity always scared me (not to mention it uses its own version of Lisp, a language that is notorious for its ability of creating new language features on the fly, hence even more complexity). I’ve been using Helix, and I couldn’t be happier. I’ve realized that I don’t really care much about editor customization, and that what I was looking for was just a cool modal editor with some useful features (such as file picker, LSP, tree-sitter, multiple cursors, …). The keybinds are also easier to grasp, as fewer of them feel arbitrary compared to Vim. In Vim and Emacs, it feels like you can do everything, while in Helix, it feels more like you can do everything the developers think that might be useful for you. Who knows, maybe I’ll try again Emacs and (Neo)Vim again in the far future, but I don’t feel like it for now.
May I recommend Helix? It’s a modal editor like vim, but has a better out of the box experience, better discoverability for commands, and uses an easier to understand select->command syntax.
Just started using helix a few months ago and I’m in love. The movement took a second to get used to but its super efficient once you get the hang of it. I highly recommend it, especially if you’re doing any kind of programming or sysadmin work and you hate gui ides.
Say goodbye to your pinkie
I may be crazy, but for regular text file, VIM is usually my go to. But, because of tag auto completion Bluefish has been my HMTL/CSS editor for a while. Most other things are in VIM. Bash? VIM. Python? VIM. C? Trash bin! Did not like the C class I took last quarter!
Exception being things like .docx or .odt files that have no business being opened in VIM.
It’s unfortunate that your experience with C wasn’t a good one. imo it’s a cool language, even if it may be overshadowed by languages that are more intuitive to use.
… Do people open docx and odt files in VIM? Fuckin why?
IDK if people do, but I’d assume there are some people would just to avoid the bloat of having office suite software.
emacs kicks ass
It becomes a tool for doing whatever you are doing at the moment.
I think the beauty of Emacs is not that it gives you a text editor, but that it gives you a lisp environment.
Save yourself the trouble and just skip ahead: real programmers use butterflies
Good ol’ C-x M-c M-butterfly
You really should use vim though.
No (I already somewhat learned Emacs, I ain’t gonna learn something new)
That’s how the meme goes though. Anytime someone suggests, says something positive about one of vim or emacs, the response should be that they should use the other. 😄
It’s an almost 40-year-old flame war.
Me:
Go, nano!
I even tried micro.
me want nano. nano edit important file pulsar can’t. dolphin angry if me use like administrator.
micro is nice, I’ve been using it more for the past few months
And for me, there was no productivity penalty when switching from VSCode, since I didn’t have to learn all new keybinds (still lacks a bit of multicursor, tho)
That wikipedia article is pure comedy gold
Glad to lighten up the day!
nvim
ftfy
May I introduce you to the simple life of just using whatever text editor and terminal that comes presintalled on your favoraite distro? It’s ridiculous how far this can get you, I’ve been enjoying gnome text ediotor with gnome terminal.
Yeah no thanks. Linting, formatting, LSP integration, Treesitter,… are just kind of essential for programming work. And the advantage of nvim/emacs/… is that you can bend them to your will and preferences.
If you just want to edit some config files, sure, use literally anything. But I need something proper for work, and if I already set all of that up, might as well use it for the config files, too.
ed is a truly wonderful editor indeed!
The greatest WYGIWYG editor, with an extremely consistent error interface.
Works great on 300 baud; not many editors can boast that. Also, if your programs are all under 2000 lines long.
I did this for the past 3 years. At some point I just got curious what all the hype is about, so I installed emacs and slowly started to use it. Now I am at a point, where Im getting comfortable around emacs and actually start to enjoy its features.
Befor I usually used nano, since I mostly edited my text files from within my terminal.
some distros ship kate, and that’s a super good pick for code editing
Fake news. Emacs is the only text editor non-heathens and heathens should be using.
Gedit is very nice, and very versatile
i am still baffled that people can have an opinion on a text editor
How do you not? A text editor and a browser are the two programs that I use the most, both for work and at home. And while most browsers have pretty similar UXs nowadays, the different editors are vastly different. Helix, EMacs, vim, StyledEdit, Notepad++, Kate, etc all have radically different approaches to basically everything.
I think its Not to wird to have an opinion on the tools you use. Does it mean, that I Am an elitist who tells everyone, that they should use Emacs just because I like it? No!
