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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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[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Vim is great for editing in general and coding simple things but I kind of gave up on using it as an IDE. Too many plugins to configure, to many breaking changes, too many bugs. My current issue is that after couple hours or days code formatting simply breaks and starts mangling my code. Only full restart fixes the problem. It's impossible to figure out were the issue is as there are so many plugins and external tools involved. I still think it's amazing you can setup vim to work as a full IDE with code completion, refactoring, formatting and all but it's just not stable enough. I reluctantly switched to Zed with vim mode. I miss smooth scrolling but other then that it's really nice.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I tried nvim with all the bells and whistles and it’s just too fiddly

Moved to helix instead, it does the light editing I need with LSP support and themes

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I tried helix and it's nice but it's still not ready to be an IDE. Too many features missing. And I'm not learning completely new tool just to edit text. Vim is still great for that. Let's hope it grows and gets all the features eventually.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Yea its definitely not an IDE

I use it mostly when I need to edit a config file quickly and don’t want to bother with a full IDE or VS Code