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    [–] RedFrank24@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago (4 children)

    If you use Vim you'll never use any other software

    [–] Zink@programming.dev 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

    That silly program can't trick me! I used Vim last year and I'm totally able to use other programs!

    ...I just have to use Vim also at all times!

    [–] Kornblumenratte@feddit.org 1 points 6 days ago

    As long as they have a plugin for vim shortcuts. I don't know how many :w I left strewn over my documents at work.

    [–] Tuxman@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago

    I would respond.. but I can’t figure out how to exit Vim

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    [–] lightnegative@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

    The problem with using Vim is that you have to learn Vim, but early in my career I was in single-ecosystem shops that all used IDE's for whatever tech (Microsoft= Visual Studio, Java = Eclipse / NetBeans, PHP = Sublime Text, arguably not an IDE)

    By the time I got to the point in my career where I got to choose the tooling, VSCode was already a thing and it has an extension for anything you can think of.

    So I never had to learn Vim, and now it's in the too-hard basket, and VSCode is ubiquitous and works surprisingly well

    [–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

    You might change your mind when you hit rock bottom and have to claw your way back with a 2011 shitbox laptop that attempts to kill itself if you dare to open a second firefox tab or, case in point, VSCode or anything that has been built with Electron.

    I learnt vim and neovim out of necessity - because it takes only 30 MB on RAM

    [–] Grenfur@pawb.social 4 points 6 days ago

    So I recently switched to vim as my text editor. And started using vimwiki for notes. But I must know what insanity could one possibly do with a Text editor other than... Well text edit.