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Sorry for living under a rock, but what is vim?
It’s a text editor. It all began with the ed editor, which is very simple and does one thing, it edits files. Then someone extended it into the ex editor. Then someone added a new feature: being able to visually see the file you’re editing, which became vi, the visual editor. Then someone improved that, into vim. What began as an editor where you needed to be fluent in regular expressions but otherwise was simple, is now a very complex editor, moving the functionality of the old UNIX tools into the editor itself.
i do all my vimming in visual studio code
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vscodevim.vim
Vi or die!
At least it’s better than
ed.?
The first time I used VI I typed a few characters, then hit backspace to delete some characters. Backspace doesn’t delete characters. I closed VI and never opened it again.
But how did you close it?
Yeah yeah, brag about being able to close VI the first time of use…
And you weren’t curious about how it worked? Not at all?
A million better alternatives exist. I was curious about them.
hides in Kate and a Codium-based IDE
VIM only has two modes:
Constantly beeping
Destroying everything.
I’m always vimming!
Not because I want to though. It’s because I don’t know how to stop…
That’s, like, halfway down the list of things to try!
Can’t stop won’t stop
We’re you referencing this by chance?
well, I am using vim, but I don’t know how to use vim.
Am I vimming?
Yes, you vom.
They vom it.
Emacs users be like
🪢 :q!
Progress lost
I kakoune instead.
fellow noun->verb user :)
helix superiority however.
Pitch me. I could switch, but it would help a great deal to understand more about why. I’m open to change, but not eager to change.
purple 🟣
Rust 🦀🦀🦀
How do you like it? I tried it a few years ago, but my vim muscular memory made it feel as uncomfortable as learning vim for the first time.
I’m very happy. I had the same early experience as you, but I kept with it. I’ve been using it several years now. When I’m forced back to vim, my fingers remember just enough, but I have to undo pretty often.
