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?
Micro is always my go-to
I’ve been using Vim for 20 years.
I only opened it once and I haven’t been able to close it yet
Yes
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nano
micro > nano
yes, that’s how unit prefixes work
Only helix
I keep it holy with Emacs
Didn’t end your post with :wq
ZZ
Because you use :x for that.
Old school Emacs user here. The keyboard shortcuts are so ingrained in my head I don’t know if I would ever be able to switch to another editor. Old dog …
Yes
Yes. I started using it years ago and have been unable to exit ever since.
But honestly related to your question, I started learning to use vim exactly because when I started to learn and use Linux I was often stuck in situations where that was the only thing available.
For much, not for all.
System and user files are pretty close to one another in NixOS, so I use it for both. Sudoedit is set to vim, but I have a kitty and neovim (technically it’s nnot nvim, it’s nvf so I can config it in Nix instead of Lua) environment that tiles quite nicely and uses nonconflicting keymaps.
I use mod+hjkl for navigating my window manager, too, which has led to an interesting situation. Hyprland just migrated to Lua from Hyprscript, and Neovim uses a lot of Lua for inbuilt commands and stuff, so you’d think I’d be thrilled to write them both in the same language. Instead I just sigh at the greener grass because I already configured them both in Nix.
I do use Obsidian (with Vim binds, and monospace source mode as default for everything except tables) for my markdown viewer / primary notekeeping cloud sync, and Kate for previewing media that needs to be formatted right as a .doc or .pdf.
Some Obsidian notes are handled with Vim, actually. I have a script that sets up a new Zettelkasten note with automatic tags and opens it in Neovim, because I find it faster than Obsidian when I have a single thought and need to write it before it’s forgotten. Thanks ADHD. I write Zettelkasten like little scripts of code - unique, atomic, referencing and importing each other, with a unique version history, and Vim’s great at that.
Damn, that’s quite the detailed setup.
Thank you! I believe Vim is a deeply individual and almost emotional experience, and a bit of rambling is always worthwhile to get the perspective of a Vim setup.
Yes! Neovim for coding, Vim for non-code editing
There is literally and figuratively no reason to not use Neovim for both.
You almost always have nano or pico available, so it’s really unlikely that you’d get stuck with nothing but vim, unless you just didn’t know that nano existed.
Started on vi, stayed in whatever has vi/vim bindings available.
The more I can stay on home row keys the better editing text is.
No, I use Neovim. But this I use 100% of the time.
