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Using Vim is Amazing (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days 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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[–] BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Surprisingly, no, hackability isn’t high on my list. Sure it’s nice, but I tend to value good defaults and simple configuration more than creating a super bespoke system that only works for me. With Helix if I really needed to extend it there are the shell commands for now and plugins are coming soon. But I haven’t really felt the need to. 🤷‍♂️

I do agree that VS Codes remote is fantastic and I wish that there was something as good as it more generally. I do see a proposal for adding it to Helix based on the distant library. That might become my first PR for helix.

[–] sping@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago

Hmm, I'm not taking about hacking defaults, I'm talking about hacking functionality. I'm talking about making capabilities that didn't exist, all seamlessly part of my typical integrated text manipulation environment (that's way broader than editing)

The unique power of emacs is it doesn't have typical boundaries, so integrated personal unique functionality is possible. May well be a huge downfall, security wise - it rides a lot on security through obscurity.

Frankly it's taken me decades to properly appreciate how my computer experience can be so fungible. Most computer systems don't allow it.