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.

  • Markuso213@piefed.socialEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    I agree with you. I figure you probably know this, but VS Code can act as a frontend for Neovim, providing one-to-one Neovim keybindings.

    Some parts I never got working, but movement was honestly flawless. But I use a lot of snippets with ultisnips, and I didn’t like the idea of translating all of that to hypersnips (or whatever the VS Code equivalent was called), so I stuck with Neovim.

    • msage@programming.dev
      1·
      15 hours ago

      Movement is like 20% of why vim is amazing.

      Without macros I’m already out, registers are also mandatory, marks are very nice to have, etc.

      I have trouble even remembering what are some of the features called, it’s just musle memory now.