Do you use vim as your default text editor? If you do not, have you ever been in a situation you could do nothing but use vim?

  • collapse_already@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    VI and vim have been my editors of choice for thirty plus years at this point. I also use set -o vi in bash.

  • tiny@midwest.socialEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    Yes I love using neovim it feels better having an editor, agent, and cli in separate terminal tabs instead of having one program for all three

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    I’m at the point where I’m considering moving to vim because I’m sick of the lack of good defaults on Nano and Micro for quick edits, and I’m also tired of IDEs breaking my flow with poor defaults that pop open UI components which must be navigated differently depending on what it is, or just switching back to the mouse every couple seconds.

    Just haven’t made the jump yet because I want to sit down and go through all the hot keys in one go, including for global stuff like tmux, the DE, etc.

  • Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish
    60·
    3 days ago

    I’ve been using Vim for 20 years.

    I only opened it once and I haven’t been able to close it yet

    • dditty@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      2 days ago

      I see the appeal of using something like NeoVim or Helix, but I don’t even leverage all of the features regular Vim has, and it is pre installed on all the systems and equipment I use. It’s plenty powerful for what I need, and now that I’m getting the keystrokes down it’s awesome

  • witness_me@lemmy.ml
    4·
    2 days ago

    Yes. I use vim as much as possible. When I don’t use vim, I use its keybindings in Firefox, IntelliJ, VSCode and even in eMacs (spacemacs with evil mode).

  • Trent@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    Helix for really quick edits, emacs for pretty much anything else. I do use tridactyl in firefox though, does that count? 😁