I'm switching to vim!
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I just took a short look at the (neo)vim docs, and I'm officially moving to (neo)vim (and tmux)! I have just used it for a few days, but I really can feel the power it gives me. Not to mention that it really saves my 6GB ram for other uses.
A snapshot of my coding session
And I encourage all of you to do the same. It really is super faster (I come from vscode, and it is really faster). Vim has everything you need – Syntax highlighting, Split screen, File explorers(!), Autocomplete(!), Tabs, Folding lines(!), Indentation autofixing(!), macros, line bookmarks, integrated terminal like interface and what not (I should make an article on it soon). Vim is basically equivalent to VSCode for me.
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It's great that you changed to vim, seems very exciting! It would be cool if you could explain the process on how you changed to vim. Personally I use VSCode with vim extension for keyboard shortcuts. And I think it would be really cool to move fully to vim, but it's hard... first problem is file navigation. VSCode makes it so easy to open up files using ctrl/command + p. There might be some other stuff that I'd miss from VSCode when moving to vim but file navigation is my road blocker I guess.
How did you overcome that?
The process how I switched to vim? I don't get it. I just installed vim and started using it. No plugins installed yet
About file navigation, there is a builtin file explorer. Just cd to the parent folder, open vim, and run the :Explore command (I guess you know what the :commands)
You get something like this:
That actually answered my doubts. So no plugins for file navigation, explorer & buffers as well I suppose. Thanks!
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You rarely need plugins. Most of the stuff is built in.
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But there are plugins for vim as well.
Eg. for filenavigation (with a tree is nerdtree) but netrw (:Explorer) has as well a tree view ( cycling with i between the views)
For fuzzy search over files vim-fzf, i think it handles the open buffers as well, but if not - there is defnitly a plugin for it somewhere....
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Ok, text editing using vim is my favorite time of the day
But how about debugging? Go to definition?
for (n)vim is vimspector and vim-dap. vimspector is quite good, but i dont have experience with dap.
For general heavy IDE stuff - take a look in coc-vim this thing supports a lots of stuff like quickfix, go to definition/reference, show docs, and some other codeactions. This extension supports most of the features which a lsp is providing.
But here its maybe worth it to take a look in to the nvim lsp feature which should cover the same stuff.
But vim ist still just only a text editor. The learning curve is high, and most of the time you will at least pay with your time to adapt, and have maybe script addiotional stuff, that it can support your workflow. (like trigger your builds, tests or debug session with a shortkey)
I actually don't use my IDE for debugging. So I'll never know the difference, I guess?
I actually don't use most of my IDE, so I'm really comfortable with this transition.
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Vim is pretty great. But, the UI is pretty ugly and it's pretty difficult to use (at least for me).
Note: I usually use Atom for small project (since Atom is pretty slow for large project), Visual Studio Code for debugging, and Sublime Text for large project.
For me, I just don't use the tools it provides too much. But it's not that ugly for me, especially because I have made TUIs and also my font does a great job at ligatures
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If you've changed to vim without any way back, you might say it's SINK OR VIM for you. 😂
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I'm also thinking of switching to Vim after seeing another developer code faster than his shadow! more than assimilating all the shortcuts !! ;)
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