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Do you use vim? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 week ago by pixeldaemon@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[–] Sickday@kbin.earth 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I use it where it's available and helix isn't

[–] BartyDeCanter@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

Same. Every machine I have control of I install Helix. For the rest, I remember just enough vi to do what I need and get out.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Helix is just used friendly vim, honestly. Vim barely has any help and helix is batteries included. Ever since discovering it, vim feels like a downgrade.

[–] Sickday@kbin.earth 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's just way easier to get helix to a usable state for the languages I write in than it is with vim. I don't have to go plugin hunting or vetting random github repos; all the support mostly comes shipped with the editor. Throw some lines in TOML file and you're good, vs downloading a plugin manager, downloading plugins, configuring those plugins and hoping you got everything right and the plugin repo's README isn't 10 years out of date.

vim feels like a downgrade.

100%

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago

The process you described is definitely what I went though with vim and neovim. After about a decade of vim I still couldn't get proper language support and an IDE like experience going. When language servers and the debugging protocol came along, it was worse to find the right plugin and configure that correctly.

Helix simplified my decade long struggle with vim in a single weekend. It still isn't a TUI IDE but it's such an upgrade, I'll take it.