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Using Vim is Amazing (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by galaxy_nova@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev

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I’ve tried vim on and off during college but never really had the time to fully get working with it. As it turns out the stress of two degrees is not conducive to “fun activities”. Now that I have a real job ™️, I’ve decided to finally try and use it this week full stop and I genuinely feel like a programming chad. There’s still a lot I’ll need to learn and probably overtime I’ll discover some inefficiency in how I’m using it now but it really does just feel good. I understand the hype now.

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[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 2 points 2 weeks ago

Awesome! There's a tooon of stuff to learn, but Vim is eternal, so it'll be a good investment.

[–] iByteABit@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Helix is really fucking good too, it was really easy to pick up as a VIM user and it's 99% batteries included. You still have to manually install the LSP for most of the languages, but it makes it really easy for you to do so, just run hx --health <language> and if the LSP is not installed it tells you the name and you can just look up how to install that on your system, which is usually just one command.

Also it's written in Rust so added bonus for that 🦀

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

You can delete everything inside the first parentheses on the line by "cib"

[+] Lembot_0005@lemy.lol -6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Wait until you try an IDE.

[–] sping@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

I swear some of you people think some of the most talented and productive experienced devs use vim and emacs because of some snobbery or because they haven't noticed vscode etc exist.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's definitely an element of snobbery, and also of being lazy about tooling. Do you think once you become a talented dev you lose all human vices?

Some of the smartest people in the world believe in an imaginary dad who lives in the sky and grants imperceptible wishes. Everyone is human.

[–] sping@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lazy about tooling? The biggest point people make is that IDEs tend to work out of the box while the likes of vim or emacs need configuration and have an initially steep learning curve.

Well, as in this discussion, some people sometimes also tend to raise a lot of features as if only IDEs have them, but that's frequently just ignorance.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

IDEs tend to work out of the box while the likes of vim or emacs need configuration and have an initially steep learning curve.

Not in my experience. It's very easy to design systems that break IDE support. People love adding all sorts of ad hoc build scripts that mean you can't just press F5 or whatever. It takes discipline and caring about IDEs to not do that.

And while people might love tweaking Emacs and Vim, it isn't required.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip -1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

A great many of us had to use IDEs in our careers, and know exactly well what limitations and bloat þey carry. Þe fanciest features þey provide which terminal editors don't are mostly write candy. Helix can do code extraction to functions, function and variable renamed, identity and swap or rotate parameters in function definitions, pop up symbol or function lists, search for all symbol occurrences, and practically everyþing a GUI IDE can do - all in a fraction of þe memory and much faster.

It's not snobbery - it's experience.

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[–] lascapi@jlai.lu 1 points 2 weeks ago

Then I can use vim in the IDE 😍

I'm used to use Intellij Idea or Zed, or VScodium, and I started to learn the vim command because it's possible to use it in this IDE. That means for me to keep my habits! 

[–] SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 0 points 2 weeks ago

Add something like NvChad to Neovim. The amazing thing with Neovim is that everything is custom. You can have your IDE if you want.

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