well, I am using vim, but I don't know how to use vim.
Am I vimming?
Yes, you vom.
They vom it.
unrepentant nano gang rise up
Emacs users be like
I'm always vimming!
Not because I want to though. It's because I don't know how to stop...
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.
Yeah yeah, brag about being able to close VI the first time of use...
But how did you close it?
Carpenter's axe to the utility line outside my house
As a long-time vim enjoyer, I like your gusto. Imagine if you could apply regexes to that carpenter's axe.
(Also, what sort? Do you have one of those awesome Gransfors Bruks ones?)
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
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.
Rust ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ
purple ๐ฃ
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.
๐ชข :q!
Progress lost
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.
Thank you for explaining!
It's also available on nearly every unix-like machine since the 70s. So, super useful to know how to use. I personally also like (neo)vim as an IDE and its optional regex functionality because that allows once to efficiently edit massive files with minimal effort.
At least it's better than ed.
?
The same arguments about learning vi/vim/neovim holds for ed. It's not intuitive, you need to get used to it, you need to learn, etc. People choose not to learn vim for the same reason vim users don't want to learn ed.
Vi or die!
i do all my vimming in visual studio code
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vscodevim.vim
I prefer https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=asvetliakov.vscode-neovim since emulators are generally not 1:1 compatible in the most unexpected places.
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